I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Hardcover

Angelou, Ms Maya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435124277 ISBN 13: 9780435124274

Publisher: Heinemann, 1995

Synopsis

One of a series offering classic and contemporary fiction and other literary work for schools, to suit a range of ages and tastes. Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth in 1930s America is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors.

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Review:

Praise for I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
" I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin
Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
" Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
" This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe"

Praise for I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
"I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin

Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
"Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"

Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
"This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe "

""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin

Book Description:

One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0435124277
• ISBN 13: 9780435124274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256