Passing

Nella Larsen

PRENTICE/HALL

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Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Quicksand

Classics

Penguin Classics

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Authors included are: Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Nancy Cunard, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Nella Larsen, D.H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, Rose Macaulay, Hugh MacDiarmid, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Mew, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, Antonia White, Anna Wickham, and Virginia Woolf.

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Willa, Cather

Nancy Cunard

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D.H.Lawrence

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British & Irish

Indiana University Press

Gathers three stories and two novels by Larsen, an influential writer of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly describes her background

An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen

United States

Anchor

Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane's search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene's friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white

Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers Series)

Rutgers Univ Pr

"Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."--Alice Walker "Discovering Nella Larsen is like finding lost money with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it without guilt." --Maya Angelou
"A hugely influential and insightful writer." --The New York Times
"Larsen's heroines are complex, restless, figures, whose hungers and frustrations will haunt every sensitive reader. Quicksand and Passing are slender novels with huge themes." -- Sarah Waters
"A tantalizing mix of moral fable and sensuous colorful narrative, exploring female sexuality and racial solidarity."-Women's Studies International Forum
Rutgers' all-time bestselling book, Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.

Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers)

Rutgers University Press

ASIN: B06XVP1J96 Title: Quicksand and Passing 2001 Griot Edition Binding: paperback

Quicksand and Passing

Quality Paperback Book Club, G

Quicksand & Passing

Vintage Classics

The Complete Fiction

Everyman

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