Authors: James Baldwin
ISBN-13: 9781400033942, ISBN-10: 1400033942
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
In 1953, a young James Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain, winning acclaim as a literary star and one of the leading voices of the African-American experience. Although Baldwin would spend the bulk of his adult life in France, his writing always addressed the complexities at the heart of America, viewed through the lens of the consummate outsider.
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics, and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.
Vintage Baldwin includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” and “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South”; and excerpts from the novel Another Country and the play The Amen Corner.
My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation from The Fire Next Time | 3 | |
Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter From Harlem from Nobody Knows My Name | 10 | |
Sonny's Blues from Going to Meet the Man | 26 | |
Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter From the South from Nobody Knows My Name | 78 | |
Selection from Another Country | 97 | |
Notes for the Amen Corner from The Amen Corner | 150 | |
The Next Morning: Act III from The Amen Corner | 160 | |
The Discovery of What It Means to Be An American from Nobody Knows My Name | 190 |