The Quest of the Silver Fleece (Annotated)
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798551584544
- Pages
- 499
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-22
- Author
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Description
Originally published in 1911, The Quest of the Silver Fleece was the first novel to come from world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois. A controversial title of its time, the novel chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows the story of free-spirited Zora, child of a Southern swamp, and her romance with Yankee-educated Bles, who will eventually face the opportunity to claim political power through corrupt means. In the middle of it all is the silver fleece, a crop of cotton rich with meaning and symbolism.
