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Native son

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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Native son

[1st Modern library ed.]

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  • 24 Have read

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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The Modern Library
Language
English
Pages
394

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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, Harper & Row
Hardcover in English - printing (11)
Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Perennial Library edition, reissued (1)
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: Native son
Native son
1942, The Modern Library
in English - [1st Modern library ed.]
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Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers
Hardcover in English - B-P

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Published in
New York
Series
The Modern library of the world's best books, Modern library of the world's best books.
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.W9352 Nat4, PS3545.R815 Nat4

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi p., 2 l., [3]-394 p.
Number of pages
394

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6443698M
LCCN
42036140
OCLC/WorldCat
2834787, 6395138
Library Thing
8100

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL275128W

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