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  • Short Fiction
    Nella Larsen
    Passing (1929)Passing is a novella about two light-skinned Black women, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, who reunite in 1920s Harlem. Clare 'passes' as white and is married to a racist white man who doesn’t know her true identity. Irene, who embraces her Black identity, is both fascinated and disturbed by Clare’s risky life. As Clare tries to re-enter Black society through Iren...
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    12,49 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    Passing is a novel by American author Nella Larsen. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends-Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield-and their increasing fascination with each other’s lives.Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-Am...
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    16,74 €

  • Passing (African American Heritage Classics)
    Nella Larsen
    This powerful novella explores the complexities of racial identity and societal norms in 1920s Harlem. It follows the intertwined lives of two light-skinned African American women, Irene and Clare, who 'pass' for white in different contexts. As Clare becomes increasingly drawn back to her Black heritage, the story delves into themes of race, identity, privilege, and the tension...
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    14,09 €

  • Passing
    Nella Larsen
    '...she’s intelligent enough in a purely feminine way. Eighteenth-century France would have been a marvellous setting for her, or the old South if she hadn’t made the mistake of being born a Negro.' Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Passing (1929) is the phenomenal sophomore novel of Nella Larsen.On an ordinary day, Irene Redfield receive...
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    5,89 €

  • 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 €

  • 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
    Christa Holm Vogelius / Nella Larsen
    Nella Larsen’s powerful classic novel on female racial identity with an introduction by Christa Holm Vogelius. ...
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    16,00 €

  • 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. ...
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    9,82 €

  • 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
    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 €

  • 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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    16,26 €

  • 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 €