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This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of Zora Neale Hurstons best writing in one authoritative set. When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of her books were out of print. Today Hurstons groundbreaking works, suffused with the culture and traditions of African Americans and the poetry of black speech, have won her recognition as one of the most significant modern American writers.Hurstons fiction is free-flowing and frequently experimental, exuberant in its storytelling and open to unpredictable and fascinating digressions. Jonahs Gourd Vine (1934), based on the lives of her parents and evoking in rich detail the world of her childhood, recounts the rise and fall of a powerful preacher torn between spirit and flesh in an all-black town in Florida.There is no book more important to me than this one, novelist Alice Walker has written about Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Hurstons lyrical masterpiece about a womans determined struggle for love and independence. In this, her most acclaimed work, she employs a striking range of tones and voices to give the story of Janie and Tea Cake the poetic intensity of a myth.In Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), her high-spirited and utterly personal retelling of the Exodus story, Hurston again demonstrates her ability to use the black vernacular as the basis for a supple and compelling prose style.Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), Hurstons last major work, is set in turn-of-the-century Florida and portrays the passionate clash between a poor southern cracker and her willful husband.A selection of short stories (among them Spunk, The Bone of Contention, and Story in Harlem Slang) further displays Hurstons unique fusion of folk traditions and literary modernism-comic, ironic, and soaringly poetic.The chronology of Hurstons life prepared for this edition sheds fresh light on many aspects of her career. In addition, this volume contains detailed notes and a brief essay on the texts.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

[Stated First Printing] Bound in green cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. Part of a two-volume set of works by Zora Neale Hurston, Novels and Stories features the acclaimed 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God-- plus Jonah's Gourd Vine, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and selected stories. Includes a newly researched chronology of Hurston's life, detailed notes, and a brief essay on the texts.

Library of America, New York, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket as issued. Library of America series. Book comes in its original slipcase. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0940450836. ISBN/EAN: 9780940450837. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23090. . 9780940450837

New York: Library of America, 1995. First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Edited by Cheryl A. Wall. Fine in fine dust jackets. These volumes bring together for the first time all of Zora Neale Hurston's best works in one authoritative set.

First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition, name to the title page. With an introduction by Fanny Hurst. Rare and desirable. Praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." Written in only three to four months in 1934, Jonah's Gourd Vine is the first novel published by acclaimed anthropologist, writer, and Harlem Renaissance personality Zora Neale Hurston. The book, based loosely on her parents' lives, explores the life and consciousness of John Pearson and his relationship with his wife Lucy Potts and other women in the town. Pearson was depicted as a minister in a small black Florida town, Eatonville, which in reality was Hurston's hometown. In Hurston's work one hears and feels the authentic voice, power, and sensibilities of people and places. In this novel, she used events from her childhood and the sermons she heard as a preacher's daughter to give structure and texture to this novel.

First edition. Introduction by Fannie Hurst. Relatively discreet ex-library copy with public library stamp on title page overstamped "Withdrawn, " light evidence of pocket removed, hinges professionally strengthened with cloth, the usual sunning to the sensitive green cloth, still about very good lacking the rare dust jacket. This is W. E. B. DuBois's copy with his rubberstamped ownership facsimile signature. The author's rare first book, a novel about a big, lovable Alabama preacher with a strong appetite for extramarital affection. A terrific association.