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  Quicksand

  Nella Larsen

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  Quicksand is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1928. This is her first novel and she completed the first draft quickly. The novel was out of print from the 1930s to the 1970s. Quicksand is a work that explores both cross-cultural and interracial themes. Larsen dedicated the novel to her husband.
  Discussing the novel, Jacquelyn Y. McLendon called it the more "obviously autobiographical" of Larsen's two novels. Larsen called the emotional experiences of the novel "the awful truth" in a letter to her friend Carl van Vechten.
  Nella Larsen introduces the educated mixed-race protagonist, Helga Crane who struggles to find her identity in a world of racialized crisis in the 1920s. The novel begins with Helga teaching at a southern black school in Naxos which is meant to be a fictional mirroring of the Tuskegee Institute. Helga is the Daughter of a Danish mother who died when she was an adolescent and West Indian father who is absent. Her early years were spent with her Danish mother and White step-father who loathed her and there began her torn relationship with her split identity. The novel gives us a glimpse into the dichotomy of being mixed raced and the divergence into two vastly different worlds as the protagonist travels through uniquely different cultural spaces from 1920's Jazz Age Harlem to Copenhagen, Denmark.

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  The Hermit and the Wild Woman...

  Edith Wharton

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  like the other as pearls in a well-matched string. Above all he liked to have time to save his soul. He had been greatly troubled about his soul since a band of Flagellants had passed through the town, exhibiting their gaunt scourged bodies and exhorting the people to turn from soft raiment and delicate fare, from marriage and money-getting and dancing and games, and think only how they might escape the devil's talons and the great red blaze of hell. For days that red blaze hung on the edge of the boy's thoughts like the light of a burning city across a plain. There seemed to be so many pitfalls to avoid—so many things were wicked which one might have supposed to be harmless. How could a child of his age tell? He dared not for a moment think of anything else. And the scene of sack and slaughter from which he had fled gave shape and distinctness to that blood-red vision. Hell was like that, only a million million times worse. Now he knew how flesh looked when devils' pincers tore it, how the shrieks of the damned sounded, and how roasting bodies smelled. How could a Christian spare one moment of his days and nights from the long long struggle to keep safe from the wrath to come...FROM THE BOOKS.

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  Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones

  Achmed Abdullah

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  Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones by Achmed Abdullah is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: THE fellow shouldn't he allowed in the Club. He makes the whole White community lose face," said Sir Silas Holden, that red-necked, purse-mouthed British merchant knight, one evening at the Shanghai Club over his sherry and biscuits. "Why?" "Because he's such a preposterous ass. Saw him swing down t This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  Edison's Conquest of Mars - The...

  Garrett P. Serviss

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  The Martians of Wells's invasion are beaten, and Edison builds a fleet to carry the war back to Mars, with Kelvin, Roentgen and the world's governments behind him. Garrett Serviss was an astronomer and a newspaperman, and wrote this in 1898 as an unauthorised sequel for a New York daily. It contains the first space suit, the first asteroid mining and the first ray-gun battle in fiction. Six plates from Church and Bierstadt, whose turbulent clouds and Cotopaxi skies give the Martian campaign the scale it demands.

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  The Weird Adventures of...

  G. Lindsay Johnson

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  A professor conducts experiments in reaching the dead and the results get away from him. Johnson was an eye surgeon of standing who published this novel in 1916, out of his own long interest in psychical research. This edition is bound with 54 plates of night painting by Goya, Munch, Grimshaw and others, ranging from moonlit docks to scenes of the Inquisition.

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  Arsène Lupin - Gentleman Burglar

  Maurice Leblanc

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  Lupin announces a theft, is arrested, escapes, and conducts his next case from a cell — and then a certain English detective arrives and has his name changed by the lawyers. Leblanc was an unnoticed jobbing writer until a magazine asked him for a crime story in 1905; France took the gentleman burglar to heart and preferred him, cheerfully, to Sherlock Holmes. Fifty-nine plates, from Jean Béraud's Paris boulevards to Paul Signac's harbour light, supply the Belle Époque backdrop this gentleman burglar moves through.

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