Moses, man of the mountain /
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Moses, man of the mountain / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Deborah E. McDowell ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. - viii, 310, 32 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm - Harper Perennial modern classics . - Harper Perennial modern classics. .
Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, 1939.
Includes bibliographical references.
In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confrontations with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humor, passion, and psychological insight the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture. Show More Show Less.
9780061695148 0061695149
Moses (Biblical leader) --Fiction.
Bible.--Old Testament--History of Biblical events--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Religious fiction.
Moses, man of the mountain / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Deborah E. McDowell ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. - viii, 310, 32 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm - Harper Perennial modern classics . - Harper Perennial modern classics. .
Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, 1939.
Includes bibliographical references.
In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life from the day he is launched into the Nile river in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator. From his dramatic confrontations with Pharaoh to his fragile negotiations with the wary Hebrews, this very human story is told with great humor, passion, and psychological insight the hallmarks of Hurston as a writer and champion of black culture. Show More Show Less.
9780061695148 0061695149
Moses (Biblical leader) --Fiction.
Bible.--Old Testament--History of Biblical events--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Religious fiction.