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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
A Mercy
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27676-6 (0-307-27676-7)
National Bestseller
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27676-6 (0-307-27676-7)
National Bestseller
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he... Read more >
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A Mercy
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26423-7 (0-307-26423-8)
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26423-7 (0-307-26423-8)
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
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A Mercy
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2630-5 (0-7393-2630-9)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2630-5 (0-7393-2630-9)
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The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27844-9 (0-307-27844-1)
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27844-9 (0-307-27844-1)
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her... Read more >
Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26488-6 (0-307-26488-2)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26488-6 (0-307-26488-2)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is... Read more >
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Love
A Novel
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7847-9 (1-4000-7847-4)
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7847-9 (1-4000-7847-4)
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend... Read more >
Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3341-6 (1-4000-3341-1)
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—first published in 1987—brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3341-6 (1-4000-3341-1)
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—first published in 1987—brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living... Read more >
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Jazz
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7621-5 (1-4000-7621-8)
In the afterglow of a clean triumph—her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved—Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.
It... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7621-5 (1-4000-7621-8)
In the afterglow of a clean triumph—her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved—Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.
It... Read more >
Song of Solomon
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3342-3 (1-4000-3342-X)
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3342-3 (1-4000-3342-X)
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western... Read more >
Sula
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3343-0 (1-4000-3343-8)
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written—as John Leonard said in The New York Times—in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Sula has the same power, the... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3343-0 (1-4000-3343-8)
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written—as John Leonard said in The New York Times—in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Sula has the same power, the... Read more >
Tar Baby
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3344-7 (1-4000-3344-6)
The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones—of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3344-7 (1-4000-3344-6)
The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones—of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark... Read more >
Love
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40944-8 (0-375-40944-0)
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40944-8 (0-375-40944-0)
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the... Read more >
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Sula
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2002
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41535-7 (0-375-41535-1)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2002
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41535-7 (0-375-41535-1)
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Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70414-7 (0-375-70414-0)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70414-7 (0-375-70414-0)
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Paradise
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1997
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43374-3 (0-679-43374-0)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1997
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43374-3 (0-679-43374-0)
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Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75893-8 (0-679-75893-3)
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood illuminates one of the grimmest--and most revealing--moments of recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case. As they relate to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through the lens of twelve powerful essays, specially... Read more >
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75893-8 (0-679-75893-3)
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood illuminates one of the grimmest--and most revealing--moments of recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case. As they relate to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through the lens of twelve powerful essays, specially... Read more >
The Dancing Mind
Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1996
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40032-2 (0-375-40032-X)
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the readingwriting life in our time. Read more >
Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1996
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40032-2 (0-375-40032-X)
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the readingwriting life in our time. Read more >
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Song of Solomon
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-44504-3 (0-679-44504-8)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-44504-3 (0-679-44504-8)
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The Collected Novels of Toni Morrison
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43436-8 (0-679-43436-4)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43436-8 (0-679-43436-4)
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The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-43437-5 (0-679-43437-2)
This is Toni Morrison's lecture and speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered in Stockholm on December 7, 1993. Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-43437-5 (0-679-43437-2)
This is Toni Morrison's lecture and speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered in Stockholm on December 7, 1993. Read more >
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The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41155-7 (0-375-41155-0)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-41155-7 (0-375-41155-0)
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Playing In The Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74542-6 (0-679-74542-4)
In a landmark work of literary criticism the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise illuminates the "Africanist" presence shaping the American imagination. Morrison's discussion of Africanist characters in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Twain, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal... Read more >
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74542-6 (0-679-74542-4)
In a landmark work of literary criticism the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise illuminates the "Africanist" presence shaping the American imagination. Morrison's discussion of Africanist characters in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Twain, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal... Read more >
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power
Essays on Anita Hill,Clarence Thomas & Constru
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 6, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74145-9 (0-679-74145-3)
Morrison brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academics--black and white, male and female--that discuss the historical, political, cultural, psychological, legal, sexual, and linguistic ramifications of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill affairs. With an Introduction by Toni Morrison.
Contents
Introduction by Toni Morrison: Friday... Read more >
Essays on Anita Hill,Clarence Thomas & Constru
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 6, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74145-9 (0-679-74145-3)
Morrison brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academics--black and white, male and female--that discuss the historical, political, cultural, psychological, legal, sexual, and linguistic ramifications of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill affairs. With an Introduction by Toni Morrison.
Contents
Introduction by Toni Morrison: Friday... Read more >
Jazz
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-41167-3 (0-679-41167-4)
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-41167-3 (0-679-41167-4)
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