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Edgar Mittelholzer
An autobiography of Edgar Mittelholzer years growing up in colonial British Guiana as a mixed-race boy in a colour-conscious home. Set against the backdrop of early 20th century Guyana.
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100 miles up the Berbice River, the Reverend Harmston has set up a commune devoted to building a micro-society in which there is to be a balance between the order…
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Sylvia Ann Russell grows up in 1930s’ Georgetown, a young woman with a good education but few social advantages. This is a world where men seek either respectable wives from…
A compendium of Edgar Mittelholzer’s uncollected writings, compiled and edited by Juanita Cox.
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A haunting ghost story by the ‘first West Indian novelist’, Edgar Mittelholzer.
This stormy story tells of Ramgolall, a cattle-minder on the coast of Guyana.
Exploring the complicated landscape of human interaction within the walls of the offices of Essential Products Ltd., this serious yet comedic novel offers a glimpse into 1940s Trinidad. Against the…
This wide-ranging collection assembles recent essays on Mittelholzer as a pioneering Caribbean modernist, critical overviews of his published works throughout the past 50 years, and the reflections of his contemporaries…
When Woodsley, a young English painter, arrives in Barbados and finds no lodging available, he thinks himself fortunate to be invited to stay at Eltonsbrody, a mansion belonging to the…
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