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  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Quicksand is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, published in 1928. It explores cross-cultural and interracial themes, with the protagonist being Helga Crane, a mixed-race African American woman who struggles to find her identity in a world of racialized crisis in the 1920s. Helga’s early years were spent with her Danish mother and white stepfather, who loathed her. The no...
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  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. ...
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    14,98 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. ...
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    27,15 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    2021 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Clare and Irene were two childhood friends. They lost touch when Clare’s father died and she moved in with two white aunts. By hiding that Clare was part-black, they allowed her to ’pass’ as a white woman and marry a white racist. Irene lives in Harlem, commits herself to racial uplift, and marries a black doctor. The novel centers on the meeti...
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    15,20 €

  • Beyond Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen’s name to memory, it is beneficial to look at the other writings she published over her short career, collected here in Beyond Passing: The Further Writings ...
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    11,86 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Generally regarded as Nella Larsen’s best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of...
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    15,64 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomously racist white husband. Each woman grows increasingly fascinated with the other’s lifestyle, drawn deeper into an arrangement that moves from precarious to tragic.Written by Nella...
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    10,42 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella follows friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, two black women who are able to pass as white. Their anxieties about passing culminate in tragedy, revealing the powerful repercussions of hiding one’s identity. Nearly a century later, Larsen’s exploration of race and privilege remains as urgent and relevant as ever. ...
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    13,53 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    9,82 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Generally regarded as Nella Larsen’s best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of...
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    22,76 €

  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published short stories; 'Freedom,' 'The Wrong Man,' and 'Sanctuary.' These stories are about love, loss, mistaken identity, and death. ...
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    13,83 €

  • The Complete and Unabridged Fiction of Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand, as well as all three of her published short stories; 'Freedom,' 'The Wrong Man, 'and 'Sanctuary.' Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s nee...
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    37,04 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and Irene, both of whom are light skinned enough to pass as white, who have reconnected with one another after many years apart. Cl...
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    17,94 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. ...
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    21,79 €

  • Quicksand and Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious soc...
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    27,97 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Facsimile of 1929 Edition.  Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continu...
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    6,69 €

  • Quicksand
    Larsen Nella
    Nella Larsen's first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga lives in various places ...
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    16,48 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen's first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga lives in various places ...
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    8,70 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American comm...
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    8,00 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries.Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American commu...
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    15,17 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    2011 Reprint of 1928 Edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Nella Larsen’s first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen’s own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable ...
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    9,84 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    2011 Reprint of 1928 Edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Clare and Irene were two childhood friends. They lost touch when Clare’s father died and she moved in with two white aunts. By hiding that Clare was part-black, they allowed her to ’pass’ as a white woman and marry a white racist. Irene lives in Harlem, commits herself to racial uplift, and marries a...
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    8,16 €

  • The Nella Larsen Collection; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, Sanctuary
    Nella Larsen
    The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary.Quicksand, Larsen’s first novel, tells the story of Helga Crane who is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable w...
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    21,07 €

  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published short stories; 'Freedom,' 'The Wrong Man,' and 'Sanctuary.' These stories are about love, loss, mistaken identity, and death. ...
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    9,10 €

  • Quicksand and Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious soc...
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    11,69 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Quicksand was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need for sexual fulfilment balanced against respectability and acceptance amid a deeply religious society. ...
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    11,23 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The novel focuses on two childhood friends Clare and Irene, both of whom are light skinned enough to pass as white, who have reconnected with one another after many years apart. Cl...
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    10,98 €

  • The Complete and Unabridged Fiction of Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing and Quicksand, as well as all three of her published short stories; 'Freedom,' 'The Wrong Man, 'and 'Sanctuary.'Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined a woman’s need...
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    14,88 €

  • Quicksand
    Nella Larsen
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    95,20 €

  • Passing
    Anon / Nella Larsen
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    121,74 €