Zora Neale Hurston Box Set

Available together for the first time in one specially designed boxed set, ten repackaged paperback editions of Zora Neale Hurstons classic workseach featuring a striking cover envisioned by a star contemporary Black artist, including Charly Palmer, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and more.

Zora Neale Hurstons work brilliantly captured the experience of American Black life in the early twentieth century and transformed the boundaries of modern literature. This boxed set features the best of her fiction and nonfiction in one extraordinary, giftable package.

Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Setincludes:

Dust Tracks on a Roadan intimate and insightful memoir of Zoras childhood in the rural South and her rise to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance

Jonahs Gourd Vinea novel about a young man who loves too many women

Mules and Menan oral history of Black American folklore featuring sermons, songs, sayings, and tall tales since the days of enslavement

Tell My Horsean insider look at the voodoo culture of Haiti and Jamaica of the 1930s

The Complete Storiesa collection of Zoras most popular short fiction

Every Tongue Got to Confessan anthology of folktales that recounts the voices of ordinary people and celebrates the richness of Black vernacular

Moses, Man of the Mountaina compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith that blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song

Seraph on the Suwaneea novel examining a complicated marriage

Mule Bonea three-act play written with Langston Hughes that explores life in a rural Southern black community

Their Eyes Were Watching Godthe Southern love story that is the most highly acclaimed novel in the African-American literary canon

A tribute to one of our greatest writers and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance,Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Setis essential for devoted collectors of her writing, an opportunity for fans to rediscover her genius, and a rich wellspring for readers new to her canon.

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934;Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937;Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; andSeraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, andTell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: “Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South.”

• Publisher: Amistad (January 4, 2022)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0063223791
• ISBN-13: 9780063223790
• Item Weight: 10.4 ounces