By E. Snod  Maroon Medicine by E. Snod (E. A. Dodd) is a collection of four short stories that portray the lighter side events in the Jamaican countryside. The four fictional stories: “Maroon Medicine,” “Paccy Rum,” “The Red Cock,” and “The Courting of the Dudes,” are sketches from rural Jamaican life in the early 1900s. They are humorous, as well as give valuable insights into people’s lives during that period.

By Henry Garland Murray Henry Garland Murray’s Tom Kittle’s Wake (1877), recalls the story of a Jamaican fisherman, as well as his eventual wake. The author was a late nineteenth century newspaper editor and popular storyteller, who was probably the first person to write and publish his work in Jamaican Patois. An excerpt from Tom Kittle’s Wake: Old Tom Kittle was a fisherman, and in his time had been notable in that respect. He had had many a “hairbreadth ’scape” and had been the hero of many a deed that might have won a place in story; but he had not been wont to recount them, for the reason that he never at any time thought of them as highly as other people did.

By W. A. Campbell W. A. Campbell’s Marguerite is a love story set against the backdrop of the earthquake that devastated Kingston and surrounding areas of the island of Jamaica in 1907. This novella was one of the rare attempts to capture some of the delicate social and psychological tensions that existed in the island's colonial society at that time. An excerpt from Marguerite: A Story of the Earthquake: For several months George had been keeping his affection for Marguerite in check, and had been persuading himself that it was a case of “very good friends.” His sense of humour was too strong to admit of his entertaining thoughts of marriage on £100 per annum, and he knew that if he married against his father’s ideas of “equality,” his allowance of £60 was gone.