{"product_id":"9781037403415","title":"A Carnival Jangle","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Alice Dunbar Nelson\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945) | Short stories\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e September 2026 by Pan Macmillan (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 112 pages \u003cbr\u003e160mm x 111mm | 90g\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the landmark writer and activist of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar Nelson, A Carnival Jangle is a powerful and unflinching collection of stories inspired by her early life in New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of love, betrayal and fortitude, peopled by an array of vivid characters whose dramas bring alive Creole life in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen must walk a tightrope between respectability and desire in stories such as 'A Carnival Jangle'. Poverty is tackled head-on in the moving stories 'M'sieu Fortier’s Violin' and 'Little Miss Sophie', whilst Catholic faith mixed with Creole spirituality looms large in 'The Goodness of St. Rocque and Odalie'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57428714226039,"sku":"9781037403415","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781037403415.jpg?v=1788266743","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.live\/products\/9781037403415","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}