Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A Novel

Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
Format: Book
Edition: First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Description: xviii, 219, 16, 5 pages ; 20 cm.
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person--no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
Series: Harper Perennial modern classics.
Contents: Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their eyes were watching God -- Afterword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology.
Subjects:
African American women -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
ISBN: 9780063068537
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Subtitle from cover.
"A hardcover edition of this book was originally published by J.B. Lippincott, Inc."--Title page verso.
"First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2006." T.p. verso.
"Copyright 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston. Renewed 1965." T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 10.0 19797.
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.6 10 SD Quiz 19797 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Reading Counts RC High School 7.9 9 Quiz: 14132 Guided reading level: NR.
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