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Nella Larsen
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare…
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Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, NY, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare Kendry…
Nella Larsen's powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for…
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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels…
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Trying to find companionship in a post-COVID world is difficult at best. Nella joined a dating app and thought she had found the man of her dreams. The roller coaster…
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.
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VINTAGE CLASSICS’ HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES
‘She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity’
‘Absolutely absorbing, fascinating and indispensable’ Alice Walker
Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime…
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Passing by Nella Larsen, published in 1929, is a powerful novel exploring race, identity, and the concept of "passing" in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. The story centers on two…
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The landmark novel about the cultural meaning of race, first published in 1929, is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries which tells the story of an…
A taut exploration of race and gender, Passing is one of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest works.
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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her…
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Passing confronts the reality of racial passing. The…
Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed.Quicksand was autobiographical in nature and examined a…
Larsen Nella
Nella Larsen’s first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsen’s own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish…
"...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…
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Nella Larsen, Asali Solomon
A classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as "an original and hugely insightful writer" by The New York Times-with an introduction by…
Quicksand is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, published in 1928. It explores cross-cultural and interracial themes, with the protagonist being Helga Crane, a mixed-race African American woman who…
A gorgeous edition of Nella Larsen’s powerful classic novel on female racial identity with an introduction by Christa Holm Vogelius.
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Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Quicksand, was autobiographical in nature and examined…
A captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, belonging, self-invention, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
Includes foreword by Mae Henderson and an introduction by Ntozake Shange. This book also includes commentary, notes and a reading group guide.
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Originally published: New York: A.A. Knopf, 1928.
Two light-skinned African American women, friends since childhood, have chosen to embrace their identities and live their lives in completely different ways.
The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary. Quicksand, Larsen’s first novel, tells the story of Helga Crane…
Nellallitea ‘Nella’ Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was…
A powerful and provocative novel about racial identity, Passing tells the story of two African-American women in 1920s New York who are reunited after many years. It explores themes of…
Published in 1928, Nella Larsen’s first novel Quicksand regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father…
