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The Sport of the Gods

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar centered on American urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the forces that extinguish the dreams of African Americans.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the Ame...

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05 - The Justice of Men
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06 - Outcasts
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08 - An Evening Out
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09 - His Heart's Desire
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10 - A Visitor from Home
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11 - Broken Hopes
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12 - 'All the World's a Stage'
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13 - The Oakleys
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