Susan D. (dougbrimor) reviewed The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) on + 237 more book reviews
this collection of nine short stories was the first African American fiction to attract the attention of the white literary world and reading public as a serious treatment of social problems in postbellum society. The wrok of Charles W. Chestnut (1858-1932) represents an important landmark in the US.
