\"Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.\" Originally published in 1953, Go Tell it on the Mountain was James Baldwin\"s first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem....

\"So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded\" Drawing on Baldwin\"s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man\"s Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a bett...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires \"every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are\"....

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed....

\"We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation\" James Baldwin\"s impassioned plea to \"end the racial nightmare\" in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement....

\"The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story\" James Baldwin\"s breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation....

James Baldwin\"s electrifying first novel. \"I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.\" Drawing on James Baldwin\"s own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes....

Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin\"s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny....

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself. \"Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it\" At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack....

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