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Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0330313126
First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless
Author : Danny Caine
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781648411243
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. And he spells out a clear path to resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by. In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes from bookstore life, making this a readable, fascinating, essential book for the 2020s.
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 —Kiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a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 : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037309858
Author : Richard Wright,Paul Green
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015000052705
The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world.-from Amazon.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061935411
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. This edition of Native Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735254657
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author : Addison Gayle
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0844660000
A biography of the black author who died in 1960.
Author : Joyce Hart
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1931798060
Traces the life and achievements of the twentieth-century African American novelist, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had been a slave, an illiterate father, and a mother educated as a schoolteacher.
Author : Eugene E. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038624115
Wright's works most often have been judged by his own ideological polemics, seldom by the terms of art. This, however, is a study of Wright's poetics, rich in a black aesthetic force that was the elemental voice in his writings.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066409924
A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598536225
For the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edition of Richard Wright's landmark works in the form in which he intended them to be read. Here, in authoritative texts based on the author's original typescripts and proofs, is the Library of America's acclaimed edition of Richard Wright's major works. Wright's first novel, Lawd Today!, published posthumously in 1963 and here presented for the first time in its original form, interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the events of one day in the life of a black Chicago postal worker. Uncle Tom's Children first brought Wright to national attention. The characters in these five stories struggle to survive the cruelty of racism in the South, as Wright asks what quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity. Wright's masterpiece, Native Son, exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cuts--including the replacement of an entire scene--that Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. Wright's wrenching memoir Black Boy, an eloquent account of his struggle to escape a life of poverty, ignorance and fear in his native South, was an immediate bestseller when it appeared in 1945. But Wright's complete autobiography, published for the first time in this volume as Black Boy (American Hunger), is a far more complex and probing work, chronicaling his encounter with racism in the North, his apprenticeship as a writer, and his disillusionment with the Communist Party. Wright's 1953 novel The Outsider appears here in a text that restores the many stylistic changes and long cuts made by his editors without his knowledge. When Cross Damon is mistakenly believed to have died in a subway accident, he seizes the opportunity to invent a new life for himself. The text here, based on Wright's final, corrected typescript, casts new light on his development of the style he called poetic realism. Boxed set contains Richard Wright: Early Works, 936 pp., and Richard Wright: Later Works, 887 pp., volumes #55 and #56 in the Library of America series.
Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022345974
This is a collection of critical essays on Richard Wright's "Native Son" by Edwin Berry Burgum, Donald B. Gibson, James Nagel, Paul N. Siegel, James A. Miller, Charles Scruggs, and other writers.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061935275
"A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature." —Chicago Tribune Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his stunning autobiography, Black Boy, Wright stands today as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful and devastating stories in Uncle Tom's Children concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. The collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.
