An edition of Notes of a Native Son (1955)

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An edition of Notes of a Native Son (1955)

Notes of a Native Son

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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

--back cover

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
175

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Subjects

African Americans, Race relations, Social conditions, Civil rights, Afro-Americans, African americans, civil rights, African americans, social conditions, United states, race relations, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987

People

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Places

United States

Times

To 1964

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2012, Beacon Press
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Notes of a Native Son
1984, Beacon Press
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Notes of a native son.
1964, Bantam Books
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Notes of a native son.
1963, Dial Press
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Edition Notes

"New introduction by the author"--Cover.
US edition

Published in
Boston, MA, USA
Copyright Date
1955, 1984

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/96073
Library of Congress
E185.61 .B2 1984, E185.61.B2 1984
lccn_permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/84006396

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvi, 175 p. ;
Number of pages
175

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OL2844379M
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notesofnative00bald
ISBN 10
0807064319
ISBN 13
9780807064313
LCCN
84006396
OCLC/WorldCat
495542347, 10726977
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0807064319
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3536
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410810

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OL2683365W
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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review

“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time

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