A FOOL'S ERRAND & BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Classics Which Condemned the Terrorism of Ku Klux Klan and Fought for Preventing the Southern Hate ViolenceBy Albion Winegar Tourgée
Length32h 18m
About this audiobook
A Fool's Errand and Bricks Without Straw are among the most important fictional reckonings with Reconstruction, combining realist observation, political argument, and moral satire. Tourgée depicts the postwar South not as a reconciled pastoral region but as a battleground over citizenship, labor, education, and racial justice. His prose is direct, documentary, and polemical, using narrative to expose the violence, legal evasions, and social hypocrisies that undermined emancipation. Albion Winegar Tourgée wrote from unusually intimate experience. A Union veteran, lawyer, judge, and Republican reformer in North Carolina, he witnessed both the hopes of Reconstruction and the organized resistance that followed. His public career, later including his legal role in the struggle against segregation, shaped his fiction's urgency. These novels transform personal observation into a broader indictment of national abandonment and failed democratic promise. This volume is recommended to readers interested in American realism, Reconstruction history, civil rights, and the political uses of fiction. It offers not merely period testimony but a searching literary analysis of how freedom can be granted in law yet denied in practice.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length32 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 2, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5A FOOL’S ERRAND & BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
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6A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools
7Dedication
8LETTER TO THE PUBLISHERS
9CHAPTER I THE GENESIS OF FOLLY
10CHAPTER II LE PREMIER ACCÈS
11CHAPTER III SORROW COMETH WITH KNOWLEDGE
12CHAPTER IV FROM BAD TO WORSE
13CHAPTER V THE ORACLE IS CONSULTED
14CHAPTER VI ALL LOST BUT HONOR
15CHAPTER VII AN OLD "UNIONER"
16CHAPTER VIII "THEIR EXITS AND THEIR ENTRANCES"
17CHAPTER IX THE NEW KINGDOM
18CHAPTER X POOR TRAY
19CHAPTER XI A CAT IN A STRANGE GARRET
20CHAPTER XII COMPELLED TO VOLUNTEER
21CHAPTER XIII A TWO-HANDED GAME
22CHAPTER XIV MURDER MOST FOUL
23CHAPTER XV "WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?"
24CHAPTER XVI THE EDGE OF HOSPITALITY DULLED
25CHAPTER XVII THE SECOND MILE POST
26CHAPTER XVIII CONGRATULATION AND CONDOLENCE
27CHAPTER XIX CITIZENS IN EMBRYO
28CHAPTER XX OUT OF DUE SEASON
29CHAPTER XXI HOW THE WISE MEN BUILDED
30CHAPTER XXII COCK-CROW
31CHAPTER XXIII THE DIE IS CAST
32CHAPTER XXIV "WISDOM CRIETH IN THE STREETS"
33CHAPTER XXV A GRUMBLER'S FORECAST
34CHAPTER XXVI BALAK AND BALAAM
35CHAPTER XXVII A NEW INSTITUTION
36CHAPTER XXVIII A BUNDLE OF DRY STICKS
37CHAPTER XXIX FOOTING UP THE LEDGER
38CHAPTER XXX A THRICE-TOLD TALE
39I
40II
41III
42CHAPTER XXXI THE FOLLY OF WISDOM
43CHAPTER XXXII "OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART"
44CHAPTER XXXIII "LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG"
45CHAPTER XXXIV THE HARVEST OF WISDOM
46CHAPTER XXXV AN AWAKENING
47CHAPTER XXXVI A RACE AGAINST TIME
48CHAPTER XXXVII THE "REB" VIEW OF IT
49CHAPTER XXXVIII "AND ALL THE WORLD WAS IN A SEA"
50CHAPTER XXXIX "LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS"
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