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Quicksand ; and, Passing / Nella Larsen ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah E. McDowell.

Van Pelt Library PS3523.A7225 A6 1986
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Larsen, Nella.
Contributor:
McDowell, Deborah E., 1951- editor.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
American women writers series
Standardized Title:
Quicksand
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Fiction.
African Americans.
Danish American women.
African American women--Fiction.
African American women.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
Multiracial people--Fiction.
Multiracial people.
Danish American women--Fiction.
Copenhagen (Denmark)--Fiction.
Copenhagen (Denmark).
Young women--Fiction.
Young women.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xxxviii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 246 pages ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
Quicksand.
Passing.
Place of Publication:
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [1986].
Notes:
"This edition of Nella Larsen's two novels has been reset, based on original editions.'Quicksand' was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1928, and 'Passing,' also issued by Knopf, appeared in 1929 ... To make these texts from the 1920 more accessible to the contemporary student reader, brief annotation of unfamiliar references has been provided ..."--A Note on the Texts.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvi-xxxvii).
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Contains:
Larsen, Nella. Passing. 1986.
ISBN:
0813511690 :
0813511704
OCLC:
13185694

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