BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
An edition of Native Son
(1940)
Native son
the biography of a young American : a play in ten scenes
1st ed
by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated, and Richard Wright
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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
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African American men, African americans, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Bildungsromans, Blacks, classic literature, Communism, Crime, Crime fiction, Criminals, Death row inmates, Drama, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Murder, Murderers, open_syllabus_project, psychological fiction, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Trials (Murder), African americans, fiction, Thomas, bigger (fictitious character), fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Bigger Thomas (Fictitious character), African American men in literature, Trials (Murder) in literature, Murder in literature, American literature, History and criticism, Fiction, psychological, Crime, fiction, Criminals, fiction, Wright, richard, 1908-1960, Fiction, general, Literary collections, Thomas, bigger (fictitious character)People
Bigger Thomas, Vera Thomas, Mrs. Thomas, Henry Dalton, Gus, G.H., Jack Harding, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Peggy, Jan Erlone, Bessie, Mr. Britten, Boris Max, Buddy Thomas, BuckleyTimes
1930sShowing 11 featured editions. View all 73 editions?
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Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback
in English
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)
006083756X 9780060837563
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
Paperback
in English
- 1st Perennial Classics edition (8)
0060929804 9780060929800
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Native son
1998, Perennial Classics
in English
- 1st Perennial Classics ed.
0060929804 9780060929800
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
1994, HarperPerennial
Paperback
in English
- 1st HarperPerennial edition (5)
0060812494 9780060812492
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Perennial Library edition, reissued (1)
0060809779 9780060809775
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Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2070378551 9782070378555
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Native Son
1970?, Harper & Row
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- printing (27)
0060830557 9780060830557
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Native son: the biography of a young American : a play in ten scenes
1941, Harper
in English
- 1st ed
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Includes songs with music
"A Mercury production by Orson Welles, presented by Orson Welles and John Houseman."
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