The Marrow of Tradition - Charles W. Chesnutt
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Sean Crisden
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Literature
The Marrow of Tradition, Written by: Charles Waddell Chesnutt Narrated by: Sean Crisden Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release Date:02-25-14 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC, Publishers Summary, Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the towns black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings., As racial tension mounts, Carteret struggles on the domestic front. His wife and child are unwell and his niece, Clara, is courted by Tom Delamer, a lush aristocrat. Meanwhile, William Miller, a young black doctor, returns to hometown of Wellington to set up a practice. Everything comes to a head, however, when a white woman is murdered., Public Domain (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC
