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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 part on his own childhood. With lyrical precision and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of ...

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A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenaryNovelist, 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 to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights ...

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 (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher's son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), James Baldwin established himself as a prophetic voice of hi...

»Ein Prophet der klaren Worte.« Susanne Kippenberger, Tagesspiegel  >Nach der Flut das Feuer<. Sein Ruf ging unter in den brennenden Städten Amerikas: Ausschreitungen, Attentate, der Furor von Black Power und White Backlash. >Kein Name< ist, neun Jahre später, eine Bestandsaufnahme dieser Zeit, eine schmerzliche Chronik des Verlusts: die Ermordungen von Malcolm X und Martin Luther King, der Zerfall der Bürgerrechtsbewegung und der bittere V...

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»Jeder sehnt sich danach, geliebt zu werden, doch kaum einer erträgt es dann.« Auf dem Gipfel seines Ruhms wird Leo Proudhammer von einem Herzschlag niedergestreckt. Durch Todesnähe zur Besinnung gebracht, lässt der schwarze Theaterstar Leid und Triumph seines Lebens noch einmal Revue passieren: Vom Elend der Straßen Harlems über die brotlosen Künstlerjahre im Village bis hin zum Durchbruch auf der Bühne. Sein einziger Halt: der ältere Brud...

»Die Welt ist nicht mehr weiß, und sie wird nie mehr weiß sein.« Als wäre es eine Nachricht von heute: Nachdem ein weißer Polizist einen Schwarzen erschossen hat, kommt es in Harlem 1943 zu Ausschreitungen. Inmitten der Unruhen trägt der 19-jährige James Baldwin seinen Vater zu Grabe. Das Verhältnis der beiden war zerrüttet wie das Land, das Baldwin bald Richtung Frankreich verlassen wird. Erst aus der Distanz vermag er sich seinem Vater un...

James Baldwin reist erstmals im Sommer 1951 nach Leukerbad, das, so denkt der Schriftsteller, wenig Ablenkung und somit optimale Voraussetzungen zum Schreiben bieten würde. Die sechshundert Menschen, die in dem von Bergen umringten Walliser Dorf leben, wo es kein Kino gibt und keine Bank, keine Bücherei und kein Theater, haben noch nie einen Schwarzen gesehen, die Kinder rufen ihm »N***r!« hinterher. Im Winter kehrt Baldwin noch zweimal zurück...

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Four Great Americans is a collection of biographical sketches of four of America's most celebrated figures: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Written in James Baldwin's engaging style, this book brings to life the stories of these men who helped shape American history. Through their courage, wisdom, and leadership, they inspired generations of Americans to strive for greatness. This book is an exc...

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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In additio...

James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others. He was one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In additio...