THE QUEST OF THE SILVER FLEECE
A Novel

W.E.B. DU BOIS

1911

A.C. McClurg & Co.

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Contents

Note from the Author
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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 CRESSWELL
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

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​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

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​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.

The first is the Gift of God, the second is the Vision of Genius, but the third is the Reward of Honesty.

In The Quest of the Silver Fleece there is little, I ween, divine or ingenious; but, at least, I have been honest. In no fact or picture have I consciously set down aught the counterpart of which I have not seen or known; and whatever the finished picture may lack of completeness, this lack is due now to the story-teller, now to the artist, but never to the herald of the Truth.

NEW YORK CITY

August 15, 1911

THE AUTHOR

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