Vintage, 1992. — 436 p. — ISBN: 0679744711 (ISBN13: 9780679744719) Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and...
Vintage, 1995. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0679761780 (ISBN13: 9780679761785) In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper...
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century. Selecting the best of our literary heritage, Baldwin cast it into a form that delights children of all ages. Beginning with stories of heroes from British history, including King Alfred and...
Vintage, 2013. — 169 p. — ISBN: 0345806565 (ISBN13: 9780345806567) Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death...
Vintage, 2013. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0375701877 (ISBN13: 9780375701870) Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin...
New York: Laurel, 1985. — 224 p.
James Baldwin's stunning first novel (published in 1953) is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America.
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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. — 226 p. Born in New York and raised in Harlem, where his father was a minister, James Baldwin wrote his first three books, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and Giovanni's Room, as an expatriate. Returning to America, he received wide public recognition for his collection of brilliant essays, Nobody Knows My Name, and the...
Vintage Books a division of Random House, 1995. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0679761799 (ISBN13: 9780679761792) "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which...
Vintage, 2017. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0525434690 (ISBN13: 9780525434696) To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these...
Vintage, 2006. — 197 p. — ISBN: 0307275930 (ISBN13: 9780307275936) In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have...
New York: Laurel, 1988. — 214 p. In this honest and stunning novel, first published in 1974, James Baldwin gave America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get...
Beacon Press, 2014. — 120 p. — ISBN: 0807084867 (ISBN13: 9780807084861) All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1994. — 608 p. The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his...
Vintage, 1992. — 242 p. — ISBN: 0679744738 (ISBN13: 9780679744733) Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.
Beacon Press, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0807006238 (ISBN13: 9780807006238) A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the...
Vintage, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0804149763 (ISBN13: 9780804149761) Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X...
Short story. — 13 p. Previous Condition was originally published in 1948 in “Commentary”. Collected in Going to Meet the Man. Peter, the main character, is a black man in his mid-twenties who works as an actor in New York where he is living in a small flat rented for him by a friend. In his everyday life he is very much concerned of discrimination against him and blacks in...
Penguin, 1995. — 90 p. — ISBN: 0146000137 (ISBN13: 9780146000133) Impassioned tales of human experience that reach the soul. James Baldwin's powerful writing expressed the anger and helplessness felt by many black people in America. Born in New York's Harlem in 1924, the controversial novelist, playwright and essayist achieved overnight success with his first book Go To It on...
Vintage, 1998. — 496 p. — ISBN: 0375701893 (ISBN13: 9780375701894) At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the...
Pantheon, 2010. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0307378829 (ISBN13: 9780307378828) The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce...
Vintage, 2011. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0307275957 (ISBN13: 9780307275950) Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In...
Random House Inc, 1993. — 128 p. — ASIN B002AXJEFC A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely...
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