Richard Wright
1) Native son
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"The restored text established by the library of America, 1908/2008 Centennial edition." Includes notes, chronology, and bibliographical references (p. 578). Contents include "How "Bigger" Was Born".
3) Black Boy
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A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in
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Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children was the first book from Richard Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of numerous works, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his autobiography, Black Boy.
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La España que Richard Wright visitó en 1954 no era el escenario romántico de la canción y la historia, sino un lugar de trágica belleza y peligrosas contradicciones. Como hombre negro en los años cincuenta, castiga a Occidente por su colonialismo e imperialismo, mientras que como
intelectual abraza el humanismo secular de la civilización occidental. Sus sentimientos encontrados sobre Occidente se adaptan perfectamente a su análisis de España,...
6) The Outsider
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Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself-a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and...
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Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor's young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control...
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This children book is about a four year old's first day at school. The other children exclude him and are mean to him. It is written to help young ones to know how to deal with such a situation - it is a must have for anyone with young ones. Like a tree you can bend a child when young, after a few years they are set in their ways.
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Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nachhause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, Rachel, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Als ihn plötzlich drei Polizisten anhalten und verhaften, geht er noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als sie ihn eines Mordes beschuldigen, ahnt er langsam, in was für einen Albtraum er geraten ist. Schläge, Kreuzverhör, psychische Manipulation entfremden...
10) Almos' A Man
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A 15-year-old boy from a family of poor sharecroppers in the 1930's Deep South finds a way to buy a pistol to prove his manhood and earn respect. But when the gun overpowers the boy's body and he loses control and his young life forever changed.
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In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality, yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the...
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A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.
This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to...
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This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers "provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war" (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run).
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code,...
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From walking a dog to watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Now, more than fifty years after they were written, these poems continue to reflect our everyday experiences. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys and offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important African American writers...
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El dios que fracasóes una obra clásica, un documento esencial de la Guerra Fría, que reúne los testimonios de algunos de los escritores más importantes del siglo xx acerca de su fascinación por el comunismo y su posterior desilusión.
El premio Nobel francés André Gide; el poeta y narrador afroamericano Richard Wright, autor de Hijo de esta tierra, uno de los relatos más crudos sobre el racismo en su país; el luchador antifascista y novelista...