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Author : William Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1880000881
As boy in the segregated South, author Richard Wright was determined to borrow books from the public library. His story illustrates the power of determination in turning a dream into reality. Full color.
Author : Jerry Spinelli
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590386336
The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books. Four humorous, poignant stories about how books changed the lives of several youngsters.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063028593
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 the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” Wright’s once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him—whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate. “To read Black Boy is to stare into the heart of darkness,” John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. “Not the dark heart Conrad searched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear.” One of the great American memoirs, Wright’s account is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.
Author : William Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0738309621
Author : William Miller
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0756909317
As boy in the segregated South, young Richard Wright--now a noted American author--was determined to borrow books from the public library. Named a Smithsonian magazine Notable Book for Children. Color illustrations throughout.
Author : Maurene J. Hinds
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766031659
An introduction to Richard Wright's novel Black Boy for high school students, which includes relevant biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader --Provided by publisher.
Author : Edward Margolies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020637438
Richard Wright's major themes in both fiction and nonfiction -- freedom, existential horror, and black nationalism--are here discussed for the first time in a book-length critical work. Although Wright's fame never diminished in Europe, at the time of his death in 1960 he had long since been dismissed in America as a phenomenally successful Negro author of the thirties and forties whose "protest" literature had subsequently become unfashionable. But, as Edward Margolies illustrates, Wright is important both for his literary achievements and as a Negro spokesman of the 1940's who fairly accurately predicted the events of the 1960's, having studied their causes. Alienation, dread, fear, and the view that one must construct oneself out of the chaos of existence--all elements of his fiction--were for Wright a means of survival and constituted a bond with the existentialist authors Camus and Sartre with whom he was sometimes associated in France in the late forties.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : BuK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1933540036
Author : Developmental Studies Center Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1576212580
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062971463
New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.” —Kiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064471114
"Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . " Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life--the hard way. Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as when it was first written, over fifty years ago. ‘Johnny Gibbs arrives home jubilantly one day with his straight ‘A’ report card to find his belongings packed and his mother and sister distraught. Devastated when they tell him that he is not their blood relative and that he is being sent to a new foster home, he runs away. His secure world quickly shatters into a nightmare of subways, dark alleys, theft and street warfare. . . . Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a enw generation of readers to Wright’s powerful voice.’—SLJ. Notable 1995 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780062041500
The compelling continuation of Richard Wright's great autobiographical work, Black Boy Anyone who has read Richard Wright's Black Boy knows it to be one of the great American autobiographies. Covering Wright's early life in the South, the book concludes with his departure in 1934 for a new life in the North. American Hunger (first published more than thirty years after the appearance of Black Boy) is the continuation of that story. A vital, richly anecdotal work, American Hunger treats with feeling and often with wry humor Wright's struggle to make his way in the North—in Chicago—as a store clerk, dishwasher, and eventually as a writer. He deals movingly with his early days in the Communist Party and with his attempts to keep his integrity in the face of Party demands that he subordinate his artistic goals to its needs. And he recounts with a mixture of pain and irony his break with the Party and the tortured period of ostracism that followed. There is an unsettling and totally frank personal story here, and a lot of raw social history as well.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Random House
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473585409
'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing... He is courageous - he was able to look into areas that nobody at that time was willing to look at' Toni Morrison Cross Damon is disenchanted. At odds with society, and with himself, his idealism and sense of alienation have driven him to drink and incessant reflection. But when Cross is mistakenly reported to have died, he is suddenly free to put his ideals to the test - and a reign of terror and destruction ensues. A counterpart to Wright's 1940 novel, Native Son, The Outsider is Wright's existential masterpiece. An epic exploration of criminality and oppression its publication established Wright as America's most daring, and damning writers.
Author : Tony Garth
Publisher : Little Wizard Limited/Splash! Pub Limited
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 190020701X
When Mrs. Witherspoon gives her dog Douglas a bath, his friend Milton falls into the tub and ends up in a bubble that carries him around the city while Douglas tries to follow him.
Author : L. King Pérez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1620141906
The powerful story of a migrant boy who grows in self-confidence when he uses his math prowess to stand up to the school bullies.