contact us | site guide | search  •  Reading Guide » Link RESOURCE MENU Reading Guide » Link Link Page 7.  Two Wives - Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, 1896, Chs. 3-4 (print pp. 21-31 in PDF ) - Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth," short story, 1900 (PDF)    New York, 1908 Georgia, ca. 1900 Printing Yekl: 11 pages. Print pages 21-31 in this pdf file. "Wife": 10 pages. Length: 21 pages total Online Sources  Yekl: online Eldritch Press, via ibiblio.org "Wife": National Humanities Center Supplemental sites Abraham Cahan, overview from Houghton Mifflin Yekl, full text, from ibiblio.org Charles Chesnutt, biography and resources from The Library of America Chesnutt, The Wife of His Youth, And Other Stories of the Color Line, short story collection, from Documenting the American South Identity: Part II of The Making of African American Identity: 1865-1917, a toolbox from the National Humanities Center. The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912: General Web Resources *PDF file - You will need software on your computer that allows you to read and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, you may download it FREE from Adobe's Web site. Toolbox: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912 Memory | Progress | People | Power | Empire Contact Us | Site Guide | Search Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature National Humanities Center Web site comments and questions, contact: nhc_ed@nationalhumanitiescenter.org Copyright © 2005 National Humanities Center. All rights reserved. Revised: May 2005 nationalhumanitiescenter.org