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Cane (Heritage Series) Unknown - 1996

by Toomer, Jean


About this book

Cane is considered the first novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and today is revered as a classic. This collection was originally published in 1923, sold 500 copies, and then disappeared until it was re-discovered in the 1960s (two years after the author's death). Considered ‘High Modernist’ the novel is composed of vignettes including narrative prose, poetry, and dialogue, moving in a circular fashion to combine life experiences of black in the rural south and urban north.  

First line

Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon . . . When the sun goes down.

First Edition Identification

The First edition of Cane was published by Boni and Liveright in 1923, in a print run of just 500. 

Details

  • Title Cane (Heritage Series)
  • Author Toomer, Jean
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition Reprint
  • Publisher Candace Press, Grand Rapids, MI
  • Date 1996
  • ISBN 9781889073088