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It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. Title Quicksand. "Fine, thoughtful and courageous. (W. E. B. Du Bois). Format Paperback. ISBN-13 9780141181271. ISBN 0141181273.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100141181273

ISBN-139780141181271

eBay Product ID (ePID)1844304

Product Key Features

Book TitleQuicksand

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicClassics, General, African American / Historical, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorNella Larsen

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-054863

Notes byDavis, Thadious M.

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240307

Reviews"Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt." — W. E. B. Du Bois, "Fine, thoughtful and courageous. It is, on the whole, the best piece of fiction that Negro America has produced since the heyday of [Charles] Chesnutt." -- W. E. B. Du Bois

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Grade ToUP

SynopsisBorn to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand , Nella Larsen 's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators., Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand , Nella Larsen 's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

LC Classification NumberPS3523.A7225Q55 2002