Native Restored Text Established by Wright Richard (9 results)

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket showing minimal shelfwear, minor edgewear. Hardcover boards are slightly faded at edges; minimal corner wear; bumped at bottom spine edge. Clean pages, no creasing or curling. Page edges unmarked. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.…

Condition: very_good. This book is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. First thus edition in near fine condition with a very minor faded top edge to the purple paper covered boards. Stamped in silver on the spine. The dust jacket is also near fine, with light grayish rub mark at the upper fore edge of the front panel. Intact price. The original text of the 1940 first edition, as established and restored by the library of America in 1991. This is the reissued centennial first edition by Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Introduction by Arthue Rampersad. Includes chapters on Chronology, Note on the Text, and Notes. xxiv and 488 pp. Fiction, American classics, African Americans in Mid-Century USA.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels'If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.' - Henry Louis Gates Jr.'The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath.' -The New YorkerWhen it was first published in 1940, Native Son established Richard Wright as a literary star. In the decades since, Wright's masterpiece-hailed by Newsweek as 'a novel of tremendous power and beauty'-has become a revered classic that remains as timely and relevant today as when it first appeared.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, this formidable work is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism, and hopelessness on the human spirit. 'I wrote Native Son to show what manner of men and women our 'society of the majority' breeds, and my aim was to depict a character in terms of thw living tissue and texture of daily consciousness,' Wright explained.This edition of Native Son-the restored text established by the Library of America-is the novel as Wright intended it to be published. It also includes an essay by Wright titled, How 'Bigger' was Born, along with notes on the text.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Native Son | The restored text established by the Library of America | Richard Wright | Taschenbuch | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2005 | Harper Collins Publ. USA | EAN 9780060837563 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…