An edition of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1952)

Go tell it on the mountain

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An edition of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1952)

Go tell it on the mountain

and related readings

  • 3.6 (13 ratings) ·
  • 239 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 21 Have read

The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem.

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Publisher
McDougal Littell
Language
English
Pages
378

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Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
2013, Vintage International
in English - 1st Vintage International pbk. ed.
Cover of: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain
June 13, 2000, Dial Press Trade Paperback
in English
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain: and related readings
1998, McDougal Littell
in English
Cover of: Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Go Tell it on the Mountain.
1997, Random Ho.,U.S., Bailey Distrib.
in English
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
1985, Dell
in English - New Laurel ed
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
1985, Dell
in English - New Laurel ed
Cover of: Go tell it to the mountain.
Go tell it to the mountain.
1977, Dee Publishing Company, Dell
in English
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
1970, Dell
in English - New Dell ed.
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
1969, Dial Press
in English
Cover of: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
1963, New American Library
in English

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Table of Contents

Go tell it on the mountain -- novel by -- James Baldwin
Notes of a native son -- essay by -- James Baldwin
The whipping -- poem by -- Robert Hayden
The revelation -- poem by -- James Wright
Bright Thursdays -- short shory by -- Olive Senior
The man of Adamant -- short story by -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The pot maker -- play by -- Marita Bonner
Forgiveness in families -- short story by -- Alice Munro -- selection from
A Bintel brief -- letters from the-- Jewish Daily Forward.

Edition Notes

970 Lexile. (Go tell it on the mountain)

Published in
Evanston, Ill
Series
Literature connections

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3552.A45 G62 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
378 pages
Number of pages
378

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32344820M
Internet Archive
gotellitonmounta0000bald_z4f9
ISBN 10
0395869943, 0395874912
ISBN 13
9780395869949, 9780395874912
OCLC/WorldCat
39753456

Work Description

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."

Excerpts

EVERYONE HAD ALWAYS said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
added anonymously.

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