A selection of illuminating stories from Alice Dunbar Nelson. One of ten pocket size paperbacks from Macmillan Collector's Library celebrating the art of the short story. Inspired by her own early life in New Orleans, Alice Dunbar Nelson's stories are powerful and unflinching. These are stories of love, betrayal, and fortitude peopled by an array of vivid characters whose dramas bring alive Creole life in the late 19th century. Women must walk a tightrope between respectability and desire in stories such as "A Carnival Jangle." Poverty is tackled head-on in the moving stories "Monsieur Fortier's Violin" and "Little Miss Sophie," whilst Catholic faith mixed with Creole spirituality loom large in "The Goodness of St Rocque" and "Odalie." This 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 Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Rabindranath Tagore.