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Author: Hervey White Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483460720 Category : Languages : en Pages : 334
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Excerpt from Quicksand The boys began pelting each other with snowballs, the girls danced and jingled their tin dinner-pails, little ones leaped for pure joy, and added their shouts to the con fusion. The larger girls, who styled themselves young ladies, but were none the less spoken of as big girls, came out of the door last of all, in a more dignified though giggling group. Many of them were watching for their sweethearts or, as Tamworth Village put it, their beaux, from the crowd of snowballing boys, who now began shying up bashfully with laughing pretences of boldness. There was singing-school Friday nights, and escorts had to be accepted. There's Adelaide with Rob the Robber. Rob is Adelaide's beau, screamed a mischievous, dancing small boy, whose eyes were always seeing. Shut up! Said a big boy, making a dive at the duck ing urchin. What do you know about beaux? Oh, you want her yourself, Hiram Stubbs, only you're one of the family! Shrieked the escaping youngster, as he made a dodge through the fence. Adelaide and Rob the Robber! Adelaide and Rob the Robber! He kept singing, as he skipped out of reach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hervey White Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483460720 Category : Languages : en Pages : 334
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Excerpt from Quicksand The boys began pelting each other with snowballs, the girls danced and jingled their tin dinner-pails, little ones leaped for pure joy, and added their shouts to the con fusion. The larger girls, who styled themselves young ladies, but were none the less spoken of as big girls, came out of the door last of all, in a more dignified though giggling group. Many of them were watching for their sweethearts or, as Tamworth Village put it, their beaux, from the crowd of snowballing boys, who now began shying up bashfully with laughing pretences of boldness. There was singing-school Friday nights, and escorts had to be accepted. There's Adelaide with Rob the Robber. Rob is Adelaide's beau, screamed a mischievous, dancing small boy, whose eyes were always seeing. Shut up! Said a big boy, making a dive at the duck ing urchin. What do you know about beaux? Oh, you want her yourself, Hiram Stubbs, only you're one of the family! Shrieked the escaping youngster, as he made a dodge through the fence. Adelaide and Rob the Robber! Adelaide and Rob the Robber! He kept singing, as he skipped out of reach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Anna Chapin Ray Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483495883 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
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Excerpt from Over the Quicksands Stuart Rhodes hesitated. His son was quite too old to be forbidden. Besides, forbidding only courts curiosity. The hesitation lengthened into a marked pause, before he spoke. Then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hervey White Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781011652952 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 334
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Ron Roy Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 037580272X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 98
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Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries® have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid favorite is back with a bright new look! Q is for Quicksand . . . Quack, quack—ducks crossing! Green Lawn is raising funds for a special bridge to keep ducks safe when they cross River Road. But then the money is stolen! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are on a quest to get it back. Not even quicksand can stop them. . . .
Author: Nella Larsen Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1667622668 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 207
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Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928.
Author: Nella Larsen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141181273 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Nella Larsen Publisher: Library of America ISBN: 1598535749 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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Library of America presents one of the masterworks of the Harlem Renaissance, the tragic story of a young woman caught between worlds. Quicksand (1928) turns the techniques of literary naturalism on questions of race, gender, and class, with unforgettable results. Nella Larsen’s immensely stylish debut novel tells the story of sensitive, proud, and beautiful Helga Crane, the daughter (like Larsen herself) of a black West Indian father and a white Danish mother. She has what some would consider a promising career in the South, teaching at “the finest school for Negroes anywhere in the country,” and a respectable fiancé. But she refuses to settle for the loveless future she envisions, hemmed in by petty conformities and the realities of southern racism, black as well as white––and so she sets off in search a happier life, a journey recounted with great feeling and psychological precision in Quicksand. In Chicago, white in-laws disown Helga. Other relatives, in Copenhagen, fête her as a gorgeous exotic, and arrange a relationship with a famous Danish artist, but fail to see her as anything other than a marriageable commodity. Only in cosmopolitan New York, encountering what Larsen describes as “the continuously gorgeous panorama of Harlem,” does she begin to sense that she may have found a place where she might belong. But hers is a fate full of ambivalence, in which even the faith and family to which she turns are forms of entrapment.
Author: Harrie Irving Hancock Publisher: Tredition Classics ISBN: 9783842433007 Category : Languages : en Pages : 164
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Author: B. M. Croker Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483914346 Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
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Excerpt from Quicksands It's rather cheerful now, and the air is splendid; but you should see it in winter, when it has a grey, weird, starving sort of look, and the face of the country is like a dead thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hervey White
Author: Hervey White
Author: Anna Chapin Ray
Author: Hervey White
Author: Hervey 1866-1944 White
Author: Ron Roy
Author: Nella Larsen
Author: Nella Larsen
Author: Nella Larsen
Author: Harrie Irving Hancock
Author: B. M. Croker