Returning Voices

The Colonel’s Dream

by Charles W. Chesnutt

A former Confederate officer who has made his fortune in New York goes home to a small North Carolina town meaning to set it right with a cotton mill and good intentions. The town has other ideas. It was the last of Chesnutt’s novels to be published in his lifetime, in 1905.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 5 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Returning Voices shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #19746. In the public domain in the United States.