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The adventures of the black girl in her search for God / Bernard Shaw ; with wood engravings by John Farleigh ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence.

Title
The adventures of the black girl in her search for God / Bernard Shaw ; with wood engravings by John Farleigh ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence.
Author
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Publication
London : Hesperus, 2006.

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Description
x, 79 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Summary
Shaw caught a ton of grief for this 1932 novel. The protagonist is an African native girl recently converted to Christianity. She goes in search of God?literally walking into the bush to seek her maker. Instead, she finds numerous religious figures and philosophers, ranging from Noah to Voltaire.
Series Statement
Modern voices
Uniform Title
Modern voices.
Subject
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1843914220 (pbk.)
  • 9781843914228 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 65469757
  • SCSB-10882551
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library