A Carnival Jangle

<p><b>From the landmark writer and activist of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar Nelson,<i> A Carnival Jangle</i> is a powerful and unflinching collection of stories inspired by her early life in New Orleans.</b><br><br>These 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.<br><br>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 ''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''.<br><br>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 Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.</p>