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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another environment The elegant C
"...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 Bl
The orphan of a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane is a young woman caught between cultures and in search of a home. Though her beauty and education open many doors, as a biracial woman in 1920s America, Helga is accepted by neither the B
'I was probably 14 when I first read it, and it's withstood the test of time' BERNARDINE EVARISTO A major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgard A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just tw
'The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race' Telegraph Born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed-race woman in the Deep South of 1920s America. She moves t
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
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her ori
Irene lever et trygt overklasseliv i 1920'ernes Harlem, men da hun en dag render ind i sin barndomsveninde Clare under et besøg i Chicago, bliver der vendt op og ned på hendes tilværelse. Smukke, charmerende Clare er - ligesom Irene selv - af afroamer
A classic, brilliant and layered novel that has been at the heart of racial identity discourse in America for almost a century. Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African America
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VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' Nella Larsen wro
Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong. Passing is a disturbing story about the unravelling
The powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today, with an introduction by Emily Bernard. A Penguin Vitae Edition Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she
Helga Crane i Kviksand er datter af en dansk mor, immigreret til USA, og en sort far. Hun føler sig ikke hjemme i de sortes miljø, hvor snakken går på racespørgsmålet. Ensom og rastløs beslutter hun at tage til familien i Danmark. Her bliver hun feteret,
" Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."--Alice Walker "Discove