Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance, continues to inspire the next generation of students. Freshman Common Read: Manchester Community College --among others

About the author

Zora Neale Hurston wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountains; and Seraph on the Suwanee) and was still working on her fifth novel, The Life of Herod the Great, when she died; three books of folklore (Mules and Men and the posthumously published Go Gator and Muddy the Water and Every Tongue Got to Confess); a work of anthropological research (Tell My Horse); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road); an international bestselling ethnographic work (Barracoon); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, grew up in Eatonville, Florida, and lived her last years in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Summary

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly. . . . Hurston believed in the transformative power of storytelling, and she took risks with sentiment that few contemporary writers are prepared to make.”—Zadie Smith
Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved classic—a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick—available in a special gift edition.
Originally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become one of the most important and enduring works of modern American literature. Written with Zora Neale Hurston’s singular wit and pathos, this Southern love story recounts Janie Crawford’s “ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny.”
A tale of awakening and independence featuring a strong female protagonist driven to fulfill her passions and ambitions, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the American literary canon.

Product details

• Authors: Zora Neale Hurston
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9780063447820
• ISBN: 978-0-06-344782-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: CLASSIC FICTION, COMMON CORE: LITERATURE, COMMON CORE: EXEMPLAR TEXTS, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, FICTION: Southern, FICTION: Historical / Renaissance, FICTION: Animals, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: CLASSIC LITERATURE, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, DRAMA: American / African American & Black