Cane
By Jean Toomer

Correction and markup by Tonya Howe

Sources

New York : Boni and Liveright, 1923Excluding the flyleaf signed by Ralph Ellison and the title page, page images sourced from Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cane00toomer/). The flyleaf and titlepage are from the first edition held in the Library of Congress Ralph Ellison collection, box A/VII/1, and taken by Tonya Howe. Base XML drawn from Project Gutenberg. An excellent digital edition with explanatory notes and an introduction is Amardeep Singh's Scalar version of Cane, hosted at Lehigh University. Singh's digital edition also includes a network visualization of key themes.

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Citation

Toomer, Jean. Cane, Boni and Liveright, 1923 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Toomer/toomer-cane. Accessed: 2025-04-04T12:52:07.605Z