Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

ISBN-13: 9780195052404 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 336 str.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Frances Smith Foster

Opis

This was probably the best-selling novel by an Afro-American writer prior to the 20th century. Published in 1892, it went through five impressions in one year. Frances Harper had already gained an international reputuation as a writer, lecturer, and political activist when this, her only novel, was published. It enjoyed a wide readership among men and women, black and white, in the US, Canada, and Britain.

Recenzje

Probably the best-selling novel by an African-American before the 20th century.