Back in its original unabridged form, a novel of Depression-era Chicago.
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.
Wright's raw and powerful prose provides a stark look at the struggles faced by African Americans in the Jim Crow South, making this book a poignant and influential work in American literature.
This edition of Native Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail.
Poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
At the end of the book, Wright sits pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest ...
Autobiography of Southern Negro who yearned for intellectual and physical freedom.
As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative ...
There is an unsettling and totally frank personal story here, and a lot of raw social history as well. American Hunger, published posthumously in 1977, was originally intended as the second volume of Black Boy.
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