Title: The Goophered Grapevine
Title Record # 2671064
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Date: 2002-07-23
Variant Title of: The Goophered Grapevine (1887) (by Charles W. Chesnutt) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Current Tags: sharp business dealings (1), dialect (1), magic (1), vineyard (1), slavery (1), african-american protagonist (1), story within a story (1), post-Civil War (1), North Carolina (1), curse (1)
Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Date: 2002-07-23
Variant Title of: The Goophered Grapevine (1887) (by Charles W. Chesnutt) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Borderline SF, in that the story strongly suggests that the elderly tale-spinner is inventing the story to discourage possible purchasers.
Synopsis: A potential purchaser of a vineyard in North Carolina encounters an elderly black neighbor, who warns him off with a tale of how the vineyard has been cursed.
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Current Tags: sharp business dealings (1), dialect (1), magic (1), vineyard (1), slavery (1), african-american protagonist (1), story within a story (1), post-Civil War (1), North Carolina (1), curse (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Great American Short Stories | 2002-07-23 | ed. Paul Negri | Dover Publications | 0-486-42119-8 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
vi+ 248 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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| 100 Great Short Stories | 2015-02-23 | ed. James Daley | Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) | 978-0-486-80328-9 | $10.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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| 100 Great Short Stories | 2015-03-18 | ed. James Daley | Dover Publications (Dover Thrift Editions) | 978-0-486-79021-3 | 768 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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