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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. CANONICAL: POWERFUL: EXCEPTIONAL: HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE: A SUPERB copy approaching its 84th year: FINE Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. January 1940) with full "letter line" showing "A-P" / PARTIAL JACKET w/ front & rear interior flaps & back panel carefully preserved & displayed within a precisely applied mylar sleeve, FINE cover w/ gray-blue library-durable linen wrapping spine & covering front & back panels & w titles handsomely presented in gold on black spine panel, FINE unblemished text-block exterior w/ cut-page-style bottom & side edging & w/ smooth-cut top edge stained in faded olive-gray, IMPECCABLE unblemished cream-white card-stock end-papers showing slight age-toning, AS-NEW binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper showing slightest age toning * 5.50" x 8.26" x 1.48", 0.64 kg, xii+359 (371) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the beginning, Bigger was doomed. He was a 'nigger' on Chicago's South Side, w/ no where to go, a 'nigger' in a white man's world. He might have been up for some petty crime, but by chance it was for murder & rape. He killed the first girl in an unpremeditated moment of panic & was caught up by forces he could neither understand nor control. Murder led to a more brutal murder & Bigger at last felt alive--he had found in acts of violence the sense of manhood & freedom, distorted as they were, which Bessie, w/ her whiskey, & his mother, w/ her religion, had not been able to give him. This CLASSIC novel is one of POWERFUL emotions & naked suffering. It is an assault upon the white man & his society, in which Wright's rage & bitterness are compressed to a degree that forces us to experience the truth of what man does to man. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: RICHARD WRIGHT was born in 1908 on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage & w/ various relatives. At the age of 15 he returned to Memphis where he worked for 2 years. "Accidentally", said Wright, "I came across H.L. Mencken's 'Book of Prefaces', which served as literary Bible for me for some years. Because I was not prepared to be anything else, I decided to become a writer." In 1934 Wright went to Chicago & in 1935 began work w/ the Federal Writer's Project. He won his first success with "Uncle Tom's Children" in 1938. W/ "Native Son" (1940) he won fame & financial independence. His autobiography "Black Boy" appeared in 1945 & "The Outsider" in 1953. After WWII Wright expatriated w/ his wife & daughters to Paris, where he died in 1960. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this CLASSIC book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL.