James Baldwin: 133 books

Harlem Love Story: eine junge Liebe gegen die Willkür einer weißen Justiz »Jeder in Amerika geborene Schwarze ist in der Beale Street geboren. Die Beale Street ist unser Erbe. Dieser Roman handelt von der Unmöglichkeit und von der Möglichkeit, von der absoluten Notwendigkeit, diesem Erbe...

“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,...

In James Baldwin’s classic short story, “The Outing,” from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip of prayer and, more importantly, romance.   Every summer, the Harlem Mount of Olives Pentecostal Assembly gives an outing, around the Fourth...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures today as it was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.   In “Come Out the Wilderness,” an essential and tremendous classic...

"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 which they try...

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer   Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays...

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 once a white...

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...

James Baldwin was an American author and textbook editor.  Baldwin was self-educated and one of the most prolific writers of school books for children in the 20th century.  This edition of Fifty Famous People includes a table of contents.

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America,...

James Baldwin was an American author and teacher.  At one time he was credited with having written or edited more than half the books used in schools throughout the United States.  Baldwin's most famous works include Old Greek Stories and Fifty Famous Stories Retold. A Story of the Golden Age is a book that retells the life story of the Greek hero Odysseus.

**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis ** Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...

Many people have read this classic in it's original format by John Bunyan and have been greatly blessed. However, many more are intimidated by the archaic language and difficult layout of the classic text. If that is you, than this is your book! James Baldwin created this edition in 1913,...

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 unspoken complexities of the human heart.