The Quest of the Silver Fleece : : A Novel / / W. E. B. Du Bois.
Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after The Souls of Black...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pine Street Books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Dreams
- 2. The School
- 3. Miss Mary Taylor
- 4. Town
- 5. Zora
- 6. Cotton
- 7. The Place of Dreams
- 8. Mr. Harry Cresswell
- 9. The Planting
- 10. Mr. Taylor Calls
- 11. The Flowering of the Fleece
- 12. The Promise
- 13. Mrs. Grey Gives a Dinner
- 14. Love
- 15. Revelation
- 16. The Great Refusal
- 17. The Rape of the Fleece
- 18. The Cotton Corner
- 19. The Dying of Elspeth
- 20. The Weaving of the Silver Fleece
- 21. The Marriage Morning
- 22. Miss Caroline Wynn
- 23. The Training of Zora
- 24. The Education of Alwyn
- 25. The Campaign
- 26. Congressman Cresswell
- 27. The Vision of Zora
- 28. The Annunciation
- 29. A Master of Fate
- 30. The Return of Zora
- 31. A Parting of Ways
- 32. Zora's Way
- 33. The Buying of the Swamp
- 34. The Return of Alwyn
- 35. The Cotton Mill
- 36. The Land
- 37. The Mob
- 38. Atonement