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Moses, man of the mountain : [a novel] / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Deborah E. McDowell ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Title
- Moses, man of the mountain : [a novel] / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Deborah E. McDowell ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Author
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Publication
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2009, c1967.
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- Additional Authors
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Description
- viii, 310, 32 p. : ill., port.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confrontations with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humor, passion, and psychological insight the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture. Show More Show Less.
- Series Statement
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Uniform Title
- Harper Perennial modern classics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction
- Religious fiction
- Religious fiction.
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.
- Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, 1939.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780061695148
- 0061695149
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library