THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE

A Novel

W.E.B. DU BOIS

1911

A.C. McClurg & Co.

Contents

• Note from the Author
• One   DREAMS
• Two   THE SCHOOL
• Three   MISS MARY TAYLOR
• Four   TOWN
• Five   ZORA
• Six   COTTON
• Seven   THE PLACE OF DREAMS
• Eight   MR. HARRY CRESSWELL
• Nine   THE PLANTING
• Ten   MR. TAYLOR CALLS
• Eleven   THE FLOWERING OF THE FLEECE
• Twelve   THE PROMISE
• Thirteen   MRS. GREY GIVES A DINNER
• Fourteen   LOVE
• Fifteen   REVELATION
• Sixteen   THE GREAT REFUSAL
• Seventeen   THE RAPE OF THE FLEECE
• Eighteen   THE COTTON CORNER
• Nineteen   THE DYING OF ELSPETH
• Twenty   THE WEAVING OF THE SILVER FLEECE
• Twenty-one   THE MARRIAGE MORNING
• Twenty-two   MISS CAROLINE WYNN
• Twenty-three   THE TRAINING OF ZORA
• Twenty-four   THE EDUCATION OF ALWYN
• Twenty-five   THE CAMPAIGN
• Twenty-six   CONGRESSMAN CRESSWEL
• Twenty-seven   THE VISION OF ZORA
• Twenty-eight   THE ANNUNCIATION
• Twenty-nine   A MASTER OF FATE
• Thirty   THE RETURN OF ZORA
• Thirty-one   A PARTING OF WAYS
• Thirty-two   ZORA'S WAY
• Thirty-three   THE BUYING OF THE SWAMP
• Thirty-four   THE RETURN OF ALWYN
• Thirty-five   THE COTTON MILL
• Thirty-six   THE LAND
• Thirty-seven   THE MOB
• Thirty-eight   ATONEMENT

THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE

TO ONE

whose name may not be written but to whose tireless
faith the shaping of these cruder thoughts to forms
more fitly perfect is doubtless due, this
finished work is herewith dedicated

Note

He who would tell a tale must look toward three ideals: to tell it well, to tell it beautifully, and to tell the truth.

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