Description |
1 online resource |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Summary |
Seventeen stories of fiction and non-fiction. The story, Mammy, is on color discrimination among blacks, Jack in the Pot is about a woman on welfare whose lottery win only brings problems, and in The Penny, a boy rats on his parents to make money. |
Contents |
Stories : The typewriter -- The five-dollar bill -- Jack in the pot -- Mammy -- The richer, the poorer -- Funeral -- The penny -- The bird like no other -- The happiest year, the saddest year -- The envelope -- Fluff and Mr. Ripley -- Odyssey of an egg -- About a woman named Nancy -- The roomer -- The maple tree -- An unimportant man -- To market, to market -- Sketches and reminiscences : Rachel -- Fond memories of a black childhood -- The gift -- The purse -- The sun parlor -- Remembrance -- An adventure in Moscow -- The cart -- Elephant's dance -- A day lost is a day gone forever -- The legend of Oak Bluffs -- Love -- The flight. |
Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
Subject |
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
|
|
African Americans -- Social life and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
|
Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
|
|
Authors, American. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
Subject |
African American authors -- Biography.
|
|
African American authors -- Biography. |
|
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998.
|
|
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998. |
|
African American authors. |
|
African Americans. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Fiction.
|
|
Biographies.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: West, Dorothy, 1907-1998. Richer, the poorer. New York : Anchor Books, ©1995 (DLC) 94044013 (OCoLC)35122431 |
ISBN |
9780307754912 (electronic book) |
|
030775491X (electronic book) |
|
0385471467 |
|
9780385471466 |
Music No. |
EB00148519 Recorded Books |
|