The cover page is adapted from East Side, New York, a painting completed circa 1908 by Louis Eilshemius. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eilshemiuswww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Sport of the Gods
Chapters (18)
- I: The Hamiltons 0:00
- II: A Farewell Dinner 6:18
- III: The Theft 17:44
- IV: From a Clear Sky 29:43
- V: The Justice of Men 43:28
- VI: Outcasts 59:23
- VII: In New York 1:15:41
- VIII: An Evening Out 1:31:13
- IX: His Heart’s Desire 1:43:56
- X: A Visitor from Home 2:03:08
- XI: Broken Hopes 2:16:44
- XII: “All the World’s a Stage” 2:34:56
- XIII: The Oakleys 2:53:43
- XIV: Frankenstein 3:13:28
- XV: “Dear, Damned, Delightful Town” 3:27:00
- XVI: Skaggs’s Theory 3:34:37
- XVII: A Yellow Journal 3:50:42
- XVIII: What Berry Found 4:01:20
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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.