- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. (1 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486460223
- ISBN-13: 978-0486460222
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 16.1 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,332,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Dramatic, original, and convincing."-Literary Digest "The author has put into the story all his wealth of justice and passion."-Independent
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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20 Feb 2001
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Du Bois himself called The Quest "an economic study of some merit." Wow, it sure was an emotionally engaging economic study to read! This book is a page-turner. Du Bois attempts to take his reader into the heart of American neoslavery without using the traditional form of slave narrative. The fictional work of this famed writer of "The Souls of Black Folk," is a penetrating glance into soul of a nation built on dehumanizing labor.
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Another Great Du Bois Read
4 Dec 2008
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Who else but Du Bois could provide so much history, economics, romance, and drama in one book. I could not put the book down. I wonder how much, if any, influence Du Bois had on Toni Morrison, Edward Jones, and Ishmael Reed. This book, written in 1911, has themes and characters like those in "Song of Solomon", "Aunt Hagars Children", and "Flight to Canada". I read this book during the Obama quest for the presidency I kept thinking/feeling while reading, we sure have come a long way.
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A great American novel
13 Nov 2010
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a beautifully written story that scrupulously adheres to logic and eschews melodrama, at least up until the very last. But even the rather improbable ending is tinged enough with foreboding that it cannot exactly be deemed a happy one.
I could summarize the plot here, but it is so dense and rich and intricate that I won't even try. Suffice it to say, the main characters, Bles Alwyn and Zora, are two young black rural Alabamians of the early 20th who struggle against white supremacy, peon-masters, robber barons, political corruption--and in Zora's case, extreme misogyny--to improve their lives and those of their brethren and sistren. Everyone in the novel is wonderfully rendered in three full dimensions--especially among the supporting cast, Mary Taylor, Northern white schoolteacher cum Southern belle. The reader will find no clichés or easy outs in Du Bois's literary masterwork.
I could summarize the plot here, but it is so dense and rich and intricate that I won't even try. Suffice it to say, the main characters, Bles Alwyn and Zora, are two young black rural Alabamians of the early 20th who struggle against white supremacy, peon-masters, robber barons, political corruption--and in Zora's case, extreme misogyny--to improve their lives and those of their brethren and sistren. Everyone in the novel is wonderfully rendered in three full dimensions--especially among the supporting cast, Mary Taylor, Northern white schoolteacher cum Southern belle. The reader will find no clichés or easy outs in Du Bois's literary masterwork.
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