THE ATHENAEUMThe Wife of His YouthCharles W. Chesnutt
Returning Voices
The Wife of His Youth
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textStories of the colour line, opening with a respectable man about to propose at his own ball when an old woman arrives looking for the husband she married in slavery. Chesnutt published them in 1899. The title story turns on what he chooses to say about her in front of his guests.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #11057. In the public domain in the United States.