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James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and educated in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews and immediately was recognized as establishing a profound and permanent new voice in American letters. "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," he remarked. Baldwin's play The Amen Corner was first performed at Howard University in 1955 (it was staged commercially in the 1960s), and his acclaimed collection of essays Notes of a Native Son, was published the same year. A second collection... Read More
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The Fire Next Time
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $12.00
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 examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $12.00
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 examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is... Read more >
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Giovanni's Room
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the... Read more >
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1980
Price: $7.50
James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1980
Price: $7.50
James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural South to... Read more >
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Another Country
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $15.00
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $15.00
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most... Read more >
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic... Read more >
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
In this honest and stunning novel, 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 sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
In this honest and stunning novel, 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 sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the... Read more >
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Going to Meet the Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $14.00
"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 stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $14.00
"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 stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in... Read more >
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $15.95
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.
For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $15.95
At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.
For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into... Read more >
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No Name in the Street
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $12.95
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $12.95
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of... Read more >
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Blues for Mister Charlie
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $11.95
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $11.95
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where... Read more >
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Nobody Knows My Name
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $12.95
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $12.95
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers. Read more >
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Vintage Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape... Read more >
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Just Above My Head
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $13.00
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $13.00
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and... Read more >
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One Day When I Was Lost
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $13.00
Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.
Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself, time... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $13.00
Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.
Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself, time... Read more >
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The Amen Corner
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $12.95
Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $12.95
Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with... Read more >
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 26, 1995
Price: $17.95
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 26, 1995
Price: $17.95
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic... Read more >
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paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The Devil Finds Work
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $11.95
James Baldwin At The Movies... Provocative, timeless, brilliant.
Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man... These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin... and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies.
Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $11.95
James Baldwin At The Movies... Provocative, timeless, brilliant.
Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man... These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin... and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies.
Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such... Read more >
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Native Sons
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
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Native Sons
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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