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A striking mosaic of prose, poetry, and dramatic dialogue, Jean Toomer’s Cane has come to be considered a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. Structured as a series of vignettes ripe with longing, passion, violence, and revenge, the haunting novel gives a powerful voice to the interior lives of African Americans in the rural South and urban North.Championed for its unsparing honesty and psychological insight by such luminaries as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou, Cane shines as a beacon to generations of African American writers who followed. Revised edition: Previously published as Cane, this edition of Cane (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.

A Large Text (16 point font) Unabridged Edition. This version has:Large Text that makes it easy to read without eyestrain.Text that has been proofread to avoid errors found in other books.Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, etc.Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. Although some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details.Preamble"Cane" (poem)First section:"Karintha" - A vignette about a young black woman desired by older men who wish "to ripen a growing thing too soon.""Reapers" - A poem written in couplets about reapers in a field, their "silent swinging," and the stark death of a field rat."November Cotton Flower" - A sonnet written in couplets with images of death in nature in the octave. These images become "beauty so sudden" in the sestet."Becky" - Vignette of an ostracized white woman with two black sons who lives in a small stone house with the railway."Face" (poem)"Cotton Song" (poem)"Carma" - Vignette about a strong woman whose husband becomes involved in shady business."Song of the Son" (poem)"Georgia Dusk" (poem)"Fern" - A Northern man attempts to woo a southern black woman, with strange results."Nullo" (poem)"Evening Song" (poem)"Esther" - A young woman who works in a drug store ages and pines for the wandering preacher Barlo, eventually seeking him out."Conversion" (poem)"'Portrait of Georgia" (poem)"Blood Burning Moon" - Black man Tom Burwell and white man Bob Stone each pursue the young Louisa, resulting in a violent encounter and a tragic climax.Second section:"Seventh Street" - Brief vignette about a street which is "a bastard of Prohibition and the War.""Rhobert" - Brief vignette about a solitary man."Avey" - A young college student pursues a lazy girl named Avey, but cannot figure out why."Beehive" (poem)"Storm Ending" (poem)"Theater" - A dancer named Dorris seeks the approval and adoration of a patron named John."Her Lips are Copper Wire" (poem)"Calling Jesus" - A brief vignette."Box Seat" - Dan Moore lusts after a reluctant Muriel, and follows her to a dwarf fight, where he starts a scene."Prayer" (poem)"Harvest Song" (poem)"Bona and Paul" - A story of indifferent love."People"(poem) -Tries to tackle the issue of racismThird section:"Kabnis" - The piece is primarily dialog and has elements of a short play. For example, the dialogue does not use tags ("he said") or describe the thoughts of the speaker. There also seem to be stage directions. "Kabnis" also has non-dramatic elements. It does not follow the format of a professional play. The language uses highly poetic descriptions, and a narrator comments on characters' feelings. (Wikipedia)A definite must read, order your copy today.

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has been classified as a composite novel or as a short story cycle. Though some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details.About the author- Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an African-American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his only book, the novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles S. Johnson called it "the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of his generation". He resisted being classified as a Negro writer, saying that he was American.Toomer continued to write poetry, short stories and essays. His first wife died soon after the birth of their daughter. After he married again in 1934, Toomer moved with his family from New York to Doylestown, Pennsylvania. There he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University.

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An Unabridged Edition. This version has:Text that has been proofread to avoid errors found in other books.Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, etc.Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. Although some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details.Preamble"Cane" (poem)First section:"Karintha" - A vignette about a young black woman desired by older men who wish "to ripen a growing thing too soon.""Reapers" - A poem written in couplets about reapers in a field, their "silent swinging," and the stark death of a field rat."November Cotton Flower" - A sonnet written in couplets with images of death in nature in the octave. These images become "beauty so sudden" in the sestet."Becky" - Vignette of an ostracized white woman with two black sons who lives in a small stone house with the railway."Face" (poem)"Cotton Song" (poem)"Carma" - Vignette about a strong woman whose husband becomes involved in shady business."Song of the Son" (poem)"Georgia Dusk" (poem)"Fern" - A Northern man attempts to woo a southern black woman, with strange results."Nullo" (poem)"Evening Song" (poem)"Esther" - A young woman who works in a drug store ages and pines for the wandering preacher Barlo, eventually seeking him out."Conversion" (poem)"'Portrait of Georgia" (poem)"Blood Burning Moon" - Black man Tom Burwell and white man Bob Stone each pursue the young Louisa, resulting in a violent encounter and a tragic climax.Second section:"Seventh Street" - Brief vignette about a street which is "a bastard of Prohibition and the War.""Rhobert" - Brief vignette about a solitary man."Avey" - A young college student pursues a lazy girl named Avey, but cannot figure out why."Beehive" (poem)"Storm Ending" (poem)"Theater" - A dancer named Dorris seeks the approval and adoration of a patron named John."Her Lips are Copper Wire" (poem)"Calling Jesus" - A brief vignette."Box Seat" - Dan Moore lusts after a reluctant Muriel, and follows her to a dwarf fight, where he starts a scene."Prayer" (poem)"Harvest Song" (poem)"Bona and Paul" - A story of indifferent love."People"(poem) -Tries to tackle the issue of racismThird section:"Kabnis" - The piece is primarily dialog and has elements of a short play. For example, the dialogue does not use tags ("he said") or describe the thoughts of the speaker. There also seem to be stage directions. "Kabnis" also has non-dramatic elements. It does not follow the format of a professional play. The language uses highly poetic descriptions, and a narrator comments on characters' feelings. (Wikipedia)A definite must read, order your copy today.

Cane explores spiritual and emotional frustration, failure of basic communication between individuals, and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black writers. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it. — Alice WalkerThis book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds. — Maya Angelou[Toomer avoided] the pitfalls of propaganda and moralizing on the one hand and the snares of a false and hollow race pride on the other hand. — Montgomery Gregory

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.