The Complete Stories and Spunk
I put these two, Spunk and The Complete Stories together beause they are both the same thing: collections of Hurston's short stories. If you click on either link on the main Zora Neale Hurston page you'll come here. Of the two, The Complete Stories is the most inclusive, hence the title. But Spunk was the first published.
The Complete Stories is one of the HarperPerennial releases that all have forwards and an afterword. They are nice packages.
Spunk was one of the Turtle Island releases that look pretty too. But it is the insides that count. The letters and the words they form are the story here.
The stories in the complete works are listed below. Sorry, I no longer have a copy of Spunk so presently I cannot mark off the ones that are included in Spunk. List entries that say "Initial publication" means they weren't published during Hurston's life.
- John Redding Goes to Sea (1921)
- Drenched in Light (1924)
- Spunk (1925)
- Magnolia Flower (1925)
- Muttsy (1926)
- 'Possum or Pig (1926)
- The Eatonville Anthology (1926)
- Sweat (1926)
- The Gilded-Six Bits (1933)
- Mother Catherine (1934)
- Uncle Monday (1934)
- The Fire and the Cloud (1934)
- Cock Robin on Beale Street (1941)
- Story in Harlem Slang (1942)
- High John De Conquer (1943)
- Hurricane (1946)
- The Conscience of the Court (1950)
- Escape from Pharaoh (1950)
- The Tablets of the Law (1951)
- Black Death (Initial Publication)
- The Bone of Contention (Initial Publication)
- Book of Harlem (Initial Publication)
- Harlem Slanguage (Initial Publication)
- Now You Cookin' with Gas (Initial Publication)
- The Seventh Veil (Initial Publication)
- The Women in Gaul (Initial Publication)
More to come...
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