The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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"The Sport of the Gods" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a novel published in 1902. When a Black butler is wrongly convicted of theft, his family is forced to flee the South for New York City. There, they encounter the harsh realities of Northern urban life as their dreams unravel. The father languishes in prison while his children fall into dangerous paths and his wife struggles to survive. This examination of early
twentieth-century African American life explores how injustice and urban pressures can destroy a family. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Sport of the Gods |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sport_of_the_Gods |
| Credits |
Produced by Robert Ledger, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | African American families -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rural-urban migration -- United States -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17854 |
| Release Date | Feb 25, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 668 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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