An edition of Native Son (1940)

Son av sitt land

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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Son av sitt land

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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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A. Bonniers
Language
Swedish
Pages
455

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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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Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback in English - Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)
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Native Son
January 2008, Chelsea House Publishers
Hardcover in English
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
Paperback in English - 1st Perennial Classics edition (8)
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Native son
1998, Perennial Classics
in English - 1st Perennial Classics ed.
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
1994, HarperPerennial
Paperback in English - 1st HarperPerennial edition (5)
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Perennial Library edition, reissued (1)
Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
1989, Harper & Row
Hardcover in English - printing (11)
Cover of: Un enfant du pays
Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
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Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
1970?, Harper & Row
Mass Market Paperback in English - printing (27)
Cover of: Son av sitt land
Son av sitt land
1943, A. Bonniers
in Swedish
Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers
Hardcover in English - B-P

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Edition Notes

"Amerikanska originalets titel: Native Son"--T.p. verso.

Published in
Stockholm
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3545.R815 N254 1943

The Physical Object

Pagination
455 p. ;
Number of pages
455

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6082462M
LCCN
50045892
OCLC/WorldCat
9436086

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL275128W

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