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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Native Son

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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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Harper & Brothers
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English
Pages
359

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Subjects

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, Buckley

Places

Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), ENGLAND, Illinois, Chicago's South Side, Washington Park

Times

1930s
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Native Son
2020, Penguin Random House
in English
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Native Son
Sep 16, 2014, Harper Perennial
paperback
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Native Son
2014, Lectorum Publications, Incorporated
in English
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Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback in English - Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)
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Native Son
2009-04-28, Caedmon
Digital Audio in English
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Native Son
2009, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
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Native Son (P.S.)
April 29, 2008, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Native Son (Native Son the restored text established by the library of America, 1908/2008 Centennial edition)
2008, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Harper Perennial Modern Classi
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Native Son CD
February 1, 2008, Caedmon
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Native Son
January 2008, Chelsea House Publishers
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Native Son
Nov 01, 2007, Recorded Books
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Native Son
Aug 02, 2005, Perfection Learning
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Native Son (Modern Classics)
August 2005, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Native Son
2005, Turtleback Books
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
August 2, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Native son
2003, Perennial
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Native Son
March 1, 2000, Greenhaven Press
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Native Son
2000, Penguin Random House
in English
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
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Native son
1998, Perennial Classics
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
1994, HarperPerennial
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Native son, and, How "Bigger" was born
1993, Buccaneer Books
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Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born
January 1993, Harper Perennial
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Native son, and: How "Bigger" was born
1993, HarperCollins
in English
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Native son
1993, G.K. Hall
in English
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NATIVE SON
1990, PICADOR
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Native son
1989, Harper & Row
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Native Son
1989, Harper & Row
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
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Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
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Native son
1987, Perennial Library
in English
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Native son
1987, Distributed by the Book-of-the-Month Club
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Native son: the biography of a young American : a play in eleven scenes to be performed without intermission
1980, S. French, Samuel French
in English - Rev.
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Native Son
July 1977, Perfection Learning Prebound, Perfection Learning, San Val
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Native Son
1973, Caedmon
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Native son
1972, Penguin
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Native Son
1970, Jonathan Cape
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Native Son
1970?, Harper & Row
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Native son
1970, Cape
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Native son.: Afterword by John Reilly.
1966, Harper & Row
in English
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Native son.: With an introd.: "How 'Bigger' was born," by the author. Afterword by John Reilly.
1966, Harper & Row
in English
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Native son.
1966, Harper & Row
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Native son
1966, Harper & Row
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Un enfant du pays (Native son)
1966, Michel
in French
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Native son
1966, Harper & Row
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Native son
1964, New American Library
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Native son
1961, New American Library
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Native son
1957, Harper
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Native son.
1957, Harper
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Native son.
1950, New American Library
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Son av sitt land
1943, A. Bonniers
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Native son
1942, The Modern Library
in English - [1st Modern library ed.]
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Native son: (the biography of a young American)
1941, Harper
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Native son: the biography of a young American : a play in ten scenes
1941, Harper
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Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers
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Native son: with an introduction, "How ʻBiggerʼ was born"
1940, Harper & Row
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Native son
1940, Harper & brothers
in English
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Native Son
1940, Victor Gollancz
Hardcover in English
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Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers Publishers
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Native son.
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Native Son
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Published in
New York, London
Copyright Date
1940

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xi, 359p.
Number of pages
359

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18534685M
Goodreads
53751606
10997201

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BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
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