Quicksands and Other Rhymes
Title | Quicksands and Other Rhymes PDF eBook |
Author | J. C. Bacala |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1956 |
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Lines to Prestina and Other Rhymes
Title | Lines to Prestina and Other Rhymes PDF eBook |
Author | J. C. Bacala |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1958 |
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Quicksand
Title | Quicksand PDF eBook |
Author | Nella Larsen |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1667622668 |
Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928.
Deep Thought Quicksand
Title | Deep Thought Quicksand PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Price |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2015-08-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1326406485 |
A collection of poetry about life. Deep thoughts reign supreme in over over 40 poems about happiness, depression, the mind, overcoming pain, social media, banks, and the world we live in.
Wild Rhymes and Other Vagaries
Title | Wild Rhymes and Other Vagaries PDF eBook |
Author | J. C. Westervale |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2024-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385496683 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Poems on Loving, Living, and Believing
Title | Poems on Loving, Living, and Believing PDF eBook |
Author | J. C. Bacala |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1975 |
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Quicksand
Title | Quicksand PDF eBook |
Author | Nella Larsen |
Publisher | Library of America |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1598535749 |
Library of America presents one of the masterworks of the Harlem Renaissance, the tragic story of a young woman caught between worlds. Quicksand (1928) turns the techniques of literary naturalism on questions of race, gender, and class, with unforgettable results. Nella Larsen’s immensely stylish debut novel tells the story of sensitive, proud, and beautiful Helga Crane, the daughter (like Larsen herself) of a black West Indian father and a white Danish mother. She has what some would consider a promising career in the South, teaching at “the finest school for Negroes anywhere in the country,” and a respectable fiancé. But she refuses to settle for the loveless future she envisions, hemmed in by petty conformities and the realities of southern racism, black as well as white––and so she sets off in search a happier life, a journey recounted with great feeling and psychological precision in Quicksand. In Chicago, white in-laws disown Helga. Other relatives, in Copenhagen, fête her as a gorgeous exotic, and arrange a relationship with a famous Danish artist, but fail to see her as anything other than a marriageable commodity. Only in cosmopolitan New York, encountering what Larsen describes as “the continuously gorgeous panorama of Harlem,” does she begin to sense that she may have found a place where she might belong. But hers is a fate full of ambivalence, in which even the faith and family to which she turns are forms of entrapment.