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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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A young black man in Harlem begins to confront the legacy of anger and guilt he has inherited from his family. The story also explores the ways in which racial oppression has shaped the life of the family and the ways in which they try to use religion to establish order amid the chaos created by racism and sex. James Baldwin's first major novel is ...
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Fire Next Time
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The Modern Library edition of the book that William Styron said shook the conscience of a nation. This is James Baldwin's call for activism "to end the racial nightmare... and change the history of the world." Includes the long essay/sermon "Down at the Cross", his commentary on the rise of the Nation of Islam in America, and an argument against ...
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Giovanni's Room
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James Baldwin
The inability of a young American in Paris to confront his sexuality leads to the end of his romance with a woman he hopes to marry, and to his male lover's tragic downfall. Baldwin's eloquent and powerful novel is interesting for its candid examination of a sexually conflicted man, and also for its suppression of the racial problems a gay black ...
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Notes of a Native Son
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James A Baldwin
Ten autobiographical essays that articulate Baldwin's views on race, based on his experiences in the U.S. and in Europe.
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Another country
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Rufus, a black artist, falls in love with a white woman, but becomes enraged by the world's response to their affair, eventually driving his beloved mad and committing suicide himself. The title refers to exile, racism, and sexual love.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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Baldwin writes an affecting, affirming, bluesy love story about a pair of teenage lovers--one in jail, one pregnant--and their attempts to stay together and raise a family in the face of racist oppression. Fonny, the artist, is arrested for a crime he didn't commit and incarcerated in the Tombs. His devoted girlfriend, Tish, is determined to get ...
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Just Above My Head
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James Baldwin
Set in Harlem during the middle decades of the 20th century, Baldwin's saga of a family in crisis takes the form of a memoir. Narrated by the brother of a gospel singer who dies tragically, the book is an elegiac outpouring of grief, and an eloquent story of black family life and the potency of religion. The title refers to the omnipresence of ...
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Going to Meet the Man: Stories
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James A Baldwin
Eight short fictions about the wounds racism inflicts on both victims and perpetrators.
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Tell me how long the train's been gone
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Baldwin's politically charged novel is about a black actor who must reconcile himself to the many contradictions in his life: his success as an artist, his shattering childhood memories of growing up in Harlem, and his homosexuality.
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Notes to Myself
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Hugh Prather
For 20 years, Prather's inspirational words have touched the lives of millions of people. This audio edition serves as a source of practical wisdom and guidance for all those seeking spiritual awakening and understanding, as well as inner peace and comfort.
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Going to Meet the Man
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Eight short fictions about the wounds racism inflicts on both victims and perpetrators.
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Nobody Knows My Name
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James A Baldwin
Essays on race and writing.
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The story of Siegfried
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James Baldwin
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a ...
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
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James A Baldwin
A collection of 50 pieces of nonfiction that span Baldwin's career, from his angry and influential early essays in THE FIRE NEXT TIME, to his later work.
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No Name in the Street
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James A Baldwin
James Baldwin provides a personal take on the '60s, mixing anger and optimism, and calling on memories of his Harlem childhood, the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and his own return to the South from a long sojourn Europe to witness the unimaginable violence of the period.
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The evidence of things not seen
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James A Baldwin
This is James Baldwin's study of the Atlanta child murders of the early 1980s and the state of race relations in the United States at that time.
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The Amen Corner: A Play
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James A Baldwin
One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice.
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition
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David Adams Leeming, James A Baldwin, Derrick A Bell (Adapted by)
This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of ...
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Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems
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James A Baldwin
James Baldwin's only collection of poems is both powerful and accessible.
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One Day When I Was Lost
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James A Baldwin
James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X."
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Native Sons: A Friendship That Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century: Notes of a Native Son
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James A Baldwin, Sol Stein
Exploring the friendship that created one of the greatest works of the 20th century, this collection features never-before-published material by James Baldwin and his longtime friend, Sol Stein, co-creators of "Notes of a Native Son." 8-page photo insert.
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Vintage Baldwin
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin's ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge readers is made abundantly clear in the short story "Sonny's Blues"; the essays "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" from "The Fire Next Time"; "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem"; and other celebrated ...
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The Devil Finds Work
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin's look at racism in American movies.
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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
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James A Baldwin
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
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