Download or read book The Sport of the Gods written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sport of the Gods is a novel set in the United States in the late nineteenth century. It chronicles the tribulations of the Oakleys, an African American family of four, as they struggle to survive and maintain their integrity in a Southern town and then in New York City. Prejudice, provincialism, and temptation take their tolls, and the justice system stands ever ready to grab the losers. This was Paul Laurence Dunbar’s final novel, published first in the May 1901 issue of Lipincott’s Monthly Magazine. In 1902, Dodd, Mead & Co. published it as a book.