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The James Baldwin Collection
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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 his era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it. One of the great modern prose stylists, he applied his passion, wit, and relentlessly probing intelligence to the fault lines and false fronts of American society while remaining true to his early credo: “One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”THE JAMES BALDWIN COLLECTION includes:Collected Essays (LOA #98)Notes of a Native SonNobody Knows My NameThe Fire Next TimeNo Name in the StreetThe Devil Finds Workother essaysEarly Novels & Stories (LOA #97)Go Tell It on the MountainGiovanni’s RoomAnother CountryGoing to Meet the Man (including “Sonny’s Blues”)Later Novels (LOA #272)Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been GoneIf Beale Street Could TalkJust Above My HeadEdited by Toni Morrison (#97 & 98) and Darrly Pinckney (#272), each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Baldwin’s life and career, and detailed notes.
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| Weight | 0.300775 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.032 × 13.0556 × 19.7612 cm |
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| Format | Box Set |
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| Year Published | 2024-6-11 |
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| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 1598537938 |
| About The Author | James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the most powerful and prophetic writers of the last century, the literary voice of the Civil Rights era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it.Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was the author of a number of acclaimed novels, including Love, Jazz, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.Darryl Pinckney is the author of the novel High Cotton (1992) and the critical study Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. |
| Other text | "It was in the summer of 1965 that James Baldwin became my own personal oracle. This was the first time I had heard a voice capturing the terrible exhilaration and anxiety of being a person of African descent in this country. I needed to hear his words all those years ago, and we especially need to hear them now. There is no richer way to encounter them than in the definitive Library of America edition." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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