Audiobooks by Alice Dunbar Nelson

3 Stories About - Women’s Insecurities on Appearances

"There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears."

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Levy, F Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Darrell Joe, Janet Fullerlove, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing With Racism

"Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings. In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.The evil stain of Racism blights much of humanity. Our own ambition to be seen as better than the rest can sometimes, without any evidence to the contrary, spill over into corrosive thoughts and actions based on colour, religion and culture. These stories examine and reveal much about this appalling travesty. 01 - Lessons From Literature - Racism - An Introduction2 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar3 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson5 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott6 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary7 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd8 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening9 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child10 - The Wife of His Youth by Charles W Chesnutt11 - Talma Gordon by Pauline E Hopkins12 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Annie McCary, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, Martha Gruening, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline E Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher, Ruth D Todd (Author), Darrell Joe, Ghizela Rowe, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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Lessons from Literature - Stories Exploring Women's Choice in Marriage

"Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings. In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.Even in these more modern times not everyone is free to choose their partners. Nations, cultures and religions around the globe are not as inclusive as we are and we think they should be. With the insight and talents of these classic authors we are shown that even in quite recent times choice in marriage was, in essence, in the gift of others.01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories Exploring Women's Choice in Marriage - An Introduction2 - The Ice Palace by F Scott Fitzgerald3 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin4 - Second Best by D H Lawrence5 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn6 - Madame Rose Hanie by Khalil Gibran7 - Sister Josepha by Alice Dunbar Nelson8 - Right At Last by Elizabeth Gaskell9 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow10 - An Outcast of the People by Bithia Mary Croker11 - The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov12 - The Skylight Room by O Henry13 - Mrs Pierrepoint by Amy Levy14 - How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton15 - Spurs by Tod Robbins16 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman17 - Two Offers by Frances Watkins Harper"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Levy, Anton Chekhov, Aphra Behn, Bithia Mary Croker, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Glasgow, F Scott Fitzgerald, Frances Watkins Harper, Kate Chopin, Khalil Gibran, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, O Henry, Tod Robbins, William James Lampton (Author), David Shaw-Parker, Kelly Burke, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The South-East Poets

"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most diverse and wide-ranging areas of the United States; the South-East. Within its borders are the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Its huge expanse lets our world-class poets including James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explore a wide range of topics and subjects as they share their poetic talents with us on the States of their birth."

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Arna Bontemps, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, John Gould Fletcher, Sidney Lanier, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston (Author), John-Michael Macdonald, Kelly Burke, Trei House (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - Sadness

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our author's pens turn to tales of sadness. This distressing feeling can arrive at a moment's notice or gradually build and overwhelm. Within these stories Anton Chekhov, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Katherine Mansfield and many others explore and reveal the consequences. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Sadness - An Introduction 2 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 4 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield 5 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 6 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev 7 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 8 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 9 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 10 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 11 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Sologub, Katherine Mansfield, Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather (Author), Christopher Ragland, Eve Karpf, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Top Ten - 20th Century Women

"With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever. 1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century British Women2 - The Indian Orphan by Letitia Elizabeth Landon3 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley4 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte5 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot6 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards7 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 8 - A Story of a Wedding Tour 9 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy10 - Passed by Charlotte Mew11 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather (Author), Eve Karpf, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1900's - The Women

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.The new century dawns. Society is beginning to realise that equality is not for the few but for the many. But, after centuries of second-class necessity do you take your rights by persuasion or by force? These authors have questions and answers that mesmerise us all with their persuasive form and literary heft. 1 - The Top 10 - Women. The 1900's - An Introduction2 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather3 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter4 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery5 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins6 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson7 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin8 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit9 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav10 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd11 - An Irish Problem by Somerville and Ross"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Willa Cather (Author), Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The African American Story

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Across the American continent African Americans have never achieved equal status. Civil war, societal upheavals white ignorance have still left many at the bottom of the heap. For them the American dream is just that, a long way from real life. Yet these authors are unafraid to spell out their lives for future generations, it is a powerful legacy. Hope endures.01 - The Top 10 - The African American Short Story - An Introduction2 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar3 - The Grist in the Mill by Wallace Thurman4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson5 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child6 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper7 - The Wife of His Youth by Charles W Chesnutt8 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher9 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins10 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening11 - The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D'Arcy"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt (Author), Darrell Joe, Warren Keyes (Narrator)

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The Top 10 Short Stories - The African American Women

"Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in literary history. When we take time to look again we find remarkable jewels of astonishing merit that reveal just how many talented stories have emerged from the pens of these very special women.01 - The Top 10 - The African American Women - An Introduction2 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper3 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson5 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening6 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd7 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary8 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child9 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman10 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins11 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances W Harper (Author), Darrell Joe, Samya De Meo (Narrator)

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African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance

"Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in the canon of humanity's arts.In today's world, in the blink of an electronic pulse, words can be transported across continents and peoples and all too easily lost in the ever-growing mass of disposable culture of 'me-me-me' and 'more- more-more'. We can all be 'woke' be 'politically correct' be outraged at a transgression or even a slight. Everything means something to someone. But, once again, more modern times miss the reality of what others in previous generations suffered in the battle for equality and recognition. In America, to be black and a woman over the years this volume covers, was to be chattel, to be bartered, sold, trafficked and used for no more than the whims of others.It was a harsh reality, and yet...., and yet, these women produced verse that sears our souls with the ambition to tell others, to share with us all, what life was like, what was endured and the heartbreak of what their reality was. They could not be overcome; their voice sought to endure and not be smothered. Words are powerful weapons, they form ideas, they create movements and manifestos that can change the world. Many of the women in this volume added to those words, to that desire that the words of their Constitution would someday include themselves. The fight is not yet wholly won, prejudice and inequality still single them out but the flame of hope, of destiny continues to burn fiercely with their names. Their poetry is not solely of protest but rich in a range of subjects embracing tenderness, love, family and includes works by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances W Harper, Phyllis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Esther Popel, Clarissa Scott Delany and many others whose voice voices call to us through the years.01 - African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance - An Introduction02 - Bars Fight by Lucy Terry03 - On Virtue by Phyllis Wheatley04 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley05 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley06 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley07 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper08 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper09 - The Slave Trade Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten10 - Burial of Sarah by Frances E W Harper11 - Reflections, Written On Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato12 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato13 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke14 - Disappointment by May E Tucker15 - Light In Darkness by Mary E Tucker16 - Hope by Mary E Tucker17 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken18 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken19 - Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken20 - The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham21 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham22 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray23 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray24 - Scraps of Time by Charlotte E Linden25 - Brave Man and Brave Woman by Charlotte E Linden26 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner27 - Thine Own by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard28 - The Black Sampson by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard29 - The Singer and the Song (To Paul Laurence Dunbar) by Carrie Williams Clifford30 - The Widening Light by Carrie Williams Clifford31 - The Door of Hope by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer32 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer33 - The Voice of the Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer34 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson35 - Not Dead, But Sleeping by Clara Ann Thompson36 - Treasured Mome'nts by Olivia Ward Bush Banks37 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman38 - Emancipation by Priscilla Jane Thompson39 - To A Deceased Friend by Priscilla Jane Thompson40 - Ain't That Hard. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187341 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187342 - The Prettiest Thing That I Ever Did. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187343 - I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson44 - Sonnet by Alice Dunbar-Nelson45 - In Memoriam by Alice Dunbar Nelson46 - Impressions by Alice Dunbar Nelson47 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith48 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith49 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké50 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimké51 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké52 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson53 - Transpositions by Georgia Douglas Johnson54 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson55 - Translation by Anne Spencer56 - White Things by Anne Spencer57 - La Vie C'est la Vie by Jessie Fauset58 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset59 - Sometimes by Maggie Pogue Johnson60 - The Negro Has A Chance by Maggie Pogue Johnson61 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston62 - That Hill by Blanche Taylor Dickinson63 - To an Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson64 - Flag Salute by Esther Popel65 - The Mask by Clarissa Scott Delany66 - Joy by Clarissa Scott Delany67 - To Usward by Gwendolyn B Bennett68 - Epitaph by Gwendolyn B Bennett69 - Heritage by Gwendolyn B Bennett70 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford71 - The Serving Girl by Gladys May Casely Hayford"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Phyllis Wheatley (Author), Trei House (Narrator)

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Stories To Make You Cry

"When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect. Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness. And not just our mood. These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat and tears to our eyes. Sometimes the relief can be palpable.Our authors, from Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield and a wealth of others are well aware of what their talents will evoke. Genius has many names. 1 - Short Stories To Make You Cry - An Introduction2 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov3 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane4 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant5 - The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield6 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev7 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather8 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson9 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev10 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson11 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub"

Alice Dunbar Nelson, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, Guy De Maupassant, Ivan Turgenev, Katherine Mansfield, Leonid Andreyev, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather (Author), Darrell Joe, David Shaw-Parker, Eve Karpf (Narrator)

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The Stones of the Village

"Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led to her becoming a teacher at a public school in New Orleans. In 1895, when she was 20, she published her first collection of short stories and poems, 'Violets and Other Tales', and moved to New York City where she co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission, a Home for Girls. Alice was always politically active and sought to advance the position of black women. She began work as a journalist at the Woman's Era newspaper where her work was seen by the established poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar. After corresponding for two years she joined him in Washington DC and they married in 1898. It was a difficult relationship, due mainly to Dunbar's fragile health, alcoholism and depression. After a severe beating she left him and moved to Delaware to teach for a decade though took time out to enroll at Cornell University.A short-lived marriage to Henry A. Callis, a physician and professor at Howard University ended in divorce and she became co-editor and writer for an influential publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A third marriage to civil rights activist Robert J. Nelson came about, as did affairs with several women, notably the activist Fay Jackie Robinson. In Wilmington Delaware she and her husband devoted their time and writings to working for equality for African Americans and women's suffrage. Alice Dunbar Nelson was a natural and gifted writer across many genres, from novels, essays, plays to diaries, criticism, poetry and of course short stories, of which 'Stones in the Village' is a fine example. The protagonist, like herself, is light skinned from New Orleans, which allows for a social mobility and a unique position in American society that Dunbar Nelson captures with an imagination and insight to explores another divisive perspective on race. It is unsurprising that Alice was a prominent part of the early Harlem Renaissance and influenced many others including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.Alice and her husband moved to Philadelphia in 1932 and it was here that she died on 18th September 1935, at the age of 60, from a heart ailment."

Alice Dunbar Nelson (Author), Darrell Joe, Ghizela Rowe (Narrator)

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