Find og sammenlign priser på tusindvis af bøger
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days , The Price o
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate Told in the form of two i
Brought to you by Penguin.James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells
'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation James B
Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fianc
'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as the
Everyones life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyones life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trappe
Tish er 19 år gammel og gravid, men hendes kæreste sidder i arresten. Fonny er mistænkt for at have voldtaget en puertoricansk kvinde, men enhver der kender Fonny er ikke i tvivl om hans uskyld. Med hjælp fra en advokat kæmper de elskendes familier for at
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnn
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher fa
In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself. 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical car
A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a you
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing exami
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the un
'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty year
From "the best essayist in this country" ( The New York Times Book Review ) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness. B
A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. In his first work for the theat
In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young
From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love--"a book that belongs in the top rank of ficti
#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African American
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel ( Chicago Sun-Times ). Baldw
'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeths witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre of his voice and tricks of his speech will nearly burs
In this modern classic by one of our most important writers, there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it. The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their sto
First published in 1963, James Baldwins The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of Americas so-called Negro problem. As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered
A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain w
A stunning edition of James Baldwin's timeless novel, with a new introduction by bestselling novelist Brit Bennett and special cover art designed by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney From one of our greatest writers, James Baldwin
A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time 'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl Phillips 'Exquisite, a feat of fire-bre
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic. Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this brilliantly and fiercely told book ( The New
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Wil
Næste gang ilden er et personligt portræt af James Baldwins egen opvækst i Harlem og et brændende opgør med raceundertrykkelse. I to breve skrevet med lige dele vrede og ømhed, smerte og klarsyn stiller Baldwin spørgsmålet: Hvordan kan vi opnå en verden u
The best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. "[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves,
"Giovannis værelse" er James Baldwin smukke og voldsomme fortælling om to mænds begærlige kærlighed og skjulte identitet i 1950érnes Paris. Amerikanske David er i Paris, hvor han fordriver tiden i byens gader. En aften hvor han er ude, mø
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time which gave voice
Da John Grimes vågner op i Harlem en lørdag i marts 1935, tror han først, at alle har glemt hans 14-års fødselsdag. Så da moren giver ham nogle penge og ønsker ham tillykke, lyser han op. Han bruger mønterne på en biograftur, men da han kommer hjem igen,
Harlem, New York, i 1970erne. 19-årigeTishog 22-årigeFonnyhar kendt hinandenhele livet. De er vokset op i det samme kvarter, har været barndomsvenner og en del af hinandens familier, er blevet forelsket og forlovet med hinanden. Og nu planlægger dederes f
Historien om den sorte i Amerika er historien om Amerika ... det er ikke en smuk historie. James Baldwins hovedværk udkommer nu for første gang samlet i sin helhed på dansk i forbindelse med hundredåret for hans fødsel. Den banebrydende essaysamling gjord
Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (19
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over t
A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain , Giovanni's Room , and If Beale Street Could Talk . Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in pa
For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1