Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel
Title | Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel |
Year for Search | 1911 |
Authors | Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt(1868-1963) |
Tertiary Authors | Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt, and Du Bois, W. E. B. |
Date Published | 1911 |
Publisher | A. C. McClurg |
Place Published | Chicago, IL |
Keywords | African American author, Male author |
Annotation | Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. . |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). |
Illustration | Illus. H. S. De Lay |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The author (1868-1963) was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century. |
Full Text | 1911 Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] (1868-1963). The Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel. Illus. H. S. De Lay. Chicago, IL: A. C. McClurg. Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii). PSt .Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. The author was the first African-American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century. |