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Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
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 o ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain, originally published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resona ...Show more
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
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Category: Biography
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his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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 ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, 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, B ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: Fiction
The inspiration for the upcoming feature film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of ...Show more
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME by BALDWIN JAMES
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states.
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
The 60s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine Staff; Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by); James Baldwin (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by)
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Category: REM Anthologies | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
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