An edition of Sapphira and the slave girl (1940)

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An edition of Sapphira and the slave girl (1940)

Sapphira and the slave girl.

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Sapphira Colbert proceeds to persecute a once happy slave girl, Nancy, when Sapphira suspects her husband admires Nancy.

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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
295

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Subjects

Fiction, African American families, Slavery, History, African Americans, Husband and wife, Blacks, Jealousy, Salmon, People with disabilities, Frontier and pioneer life, Schwarze, Sklaverei, Fiction, general, Large type books, American fiction, Dummies (Bookselling), Specimens

People

Henry Colbert, Sapphira Colbert, Rachel Blake, Michael Blake, Old Jezebel, Nancy, Till, Lizzie, Sampson, Martin Colbert, Mr. Fairhead, Mrs. Bywaters.

Places

Virginia, United States

Times

1856

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
2010
in English - First Vintage Classics edition.
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
2009, University of Nebraska Press
in English
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
1992, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Virago Modern Classics)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (Virago Modern Classics)
November 17, 1986, Virago Press Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
1975, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
1940, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl
Sapphira and the slave girl
1940, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
Cover of: Sapphira and the slave girl.
Sapphira and the slave girl.
1940, A.A. Knopf
in English

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Book Details

Edition Notes

At head of title: By Willa Cather.

"First edition."

38141

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3505.A87 S3 1940, PZ3.C2858 Sap8

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 295, [1] p.
Number of pages
295

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6411231M
LCCN
40034421
OCLC/WorldCat
280666
Library Thing
103792

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL12821W

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First Sentence

"Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife-beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table."

Work Description

Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.

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