SONNY

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

$20 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

NY: Century Co., 1896 . First edition. 12mo. 10 , 135 pp. Illustrated from paintings, plates. “She wrote with a sometimes extravagant humor and with sentiment and optimism … the first to describe the after-the-War plantation negro in his own social environment … showed extraordinary skill in the use of the habitual locutions of her illiterate whites and blacks … an Arkansas ‘poor white’ story, Sonny, has been her most

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