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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in New York. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), which evokes his experiences as a boy preacher in Harlem, was an immediate success. Baldwin’s second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956) has become a landmark of gay literature and Another Country (1962) caused a literary sensation. His searing essay collections Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961) contain many of the works that made him an influential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin published several other collections of non-fiction, including The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972). His short stories are collected in Going to Meet the Man (1965). His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) and Just Above My Head (1979).James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1986. He died in 1987 in France
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Dark Days
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for continued literary studies, these tales of legend and history are timelessly delightful in their ability to charm and dazzle young readers.Among the fifty stories in the collection are; "A Story of Robin Hood," "Sir Walter Raleigh," "Pocahontas," "George Washington and his Hatchet," "The Story of William Tell," "How Napoleon Crossed the Alps," "Androclus and the Lion," "Julius Caesar," and "Diogenes the Wise Man" as well as many lesser known, yet indispensable tales.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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Giovanni's Room
TweedehandsSet in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
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The Story of Abraham Lincoln
The Story of Abraham Lincoln presents the life of the sixteenth president as a moral and civic narrative, tracing his rise from frontier poverty to the burdens of national leadership during the Civil War. Written in clear, direct prose for younger readers, the book belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of edifying American biography, where historical fact is shaped into lessons of perseverance, honesty, self-command, and democratic duty. Its author, James Baldwin, was not the later twentieth-century novelist, but the Indiana-born educator, editor, and prolific writer of schoolbooks who helped define reading for American classrooms. His experience as a teacher and textbook maker explains the book's accessible structure, exemplary tone, and emphasis on character formation. Baldwin's Lincoln is both historical figure and instructional model, designed to cultivate patriotism and ethical seriousness in students. This book is recommended for readers interested in early juvenile biography, Lincoln's posthumous reputation, or the ways American history was taught through moral example. It offers a concise, earnest portrait of Lincoln and a revealing glimpse into the educational ideals of Baldwin's era.
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The American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro
"It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity, has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you".James Baldwin was one of America's most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech, delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society, he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.
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Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a collection of short stories written by James Baldwin for children of all ages to enjoy. Amoing these fifty stories children will find works like Julius Caesar, King Alfred and the Cakes, William Tell, and Robin Hood which will teach them about history and important lessons from the examples set forth in these stories. This collection should not be passed over, as this is the ultimate James Baldwin collection of short children stories.
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Een zoon van Amerika
E-book‘Niet alles wat we onder ogen zien kunnen we veranderen. Maar we kunnen niets veranderen zonder het eerst onder ogen te zien.’ – James BaldwinJames Baldwins non-fictiedebuut verscheen in 1955, toen hij dertig was en vestigde zijn naam als onontkoombaar denker. De tien cultuurkritische en autobiografische es says zijn geschreven in de jaren veertig en vijftig en tonen een land waarin de maatschappelijke verhoudingen voorzichtig beginnen te schuiven. In uiterst scherpzinnig proza van grote schoonheid onderzoekt Baldwin met woede en empathie wat het betekent om van kleur te zijn in Amerika en Europa.‘Mijlpalen in de essayistiek, van grote kracht en schoonheid.’ – The Guardian, 100 belangrijkste non-fictieboeken aller tijden (#26)‘Ik wou dat ik dit boek in de handen van iedere Amerikaan kon drukken – eigenlijk van ieder mens.’ – Celeste Ng
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Giovanni's kamer
E-bookGiovanni’s kamer is een taboedoorbrekende, diepmen selijke klassieker over liefde en de angst voor liefde, van een van de meest visionaire schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw.In het Parijs van de jaren vijftig valt de jonge Amerikaan David voor de Italiaanse barman Giovanni. Als Davids verloofde Hella terugkeert van een reis raakt hij verscheurd tussen zijn verlangens en de conventionele moraal. Ondertussen neemt het leven van Giovanni een vreselijke wending.‘Baldwin is een van de weinige werkelijk onmisbare Amerikaanse schrijvers.’ – Saturday Review ‘Van een gewelddadige, pijnlijke schoonheid.’ – San Francisco Chronicle‘Dit boek behoort tot de allerbeste fictie.’ – The Atlantic
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Kom, roep het van de bergen
E-bookHet is een zaterdag in maart 1935 en John Grimes wordt veertien. Hij is een gevoelige, hyperintelligente jongen uit Harlem, stiefzoon van een hardvochtige prediker bij de pinkstergemeente. In deze sterk autobiografische roman doorspekt Baldwin zijn verhaal over de spirituele, seksuele en morele ontwikkeling van de jongen met de levensverhalen van diens moeder, vader en tante. Baldwins debuut verbluft door de lyrische precisie, psychologische scherpte, symbolische kracht en de niet-aflatende maar ook empathische woede. Die geldt vooral de dubieuze rol als instrument van onderdrukking die de kerk speelde in de levens van veel zwarte Amerikanen. Een twintigste-eeuwse klassieker.
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Niet door water, maar door vuur
E-bookNiet door water, maar door vuur deed Amerika opschrikken toen het in 1963 uitkwam. In twee persoonlijke, gepassioneerde brieven schrijft James Baldwin over liefde, geloof en hypocrisie in het ‘land van de vrijheid’ en wat het betekent om zwart te zijn in Amerika. Het boek groeide uit tot een van de invloedrijkste teksten over rassenrelaties ooit.
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Als Beale Street kon praten
E-bookHarlem, begin jaren zeventig, de tijd van Aretha Franklin en Ray Charles. De 19-jarige Tish is zwanger van haar grote liefde Fonny, een jonge beeldhouwer. Hij zit vast, beschuldigd van een verkrachting, ingerekend door een racistische agent. Terwijl hun beider families hun best doen om Fonny’s naam te zuiveren, wordt het jonge paar heen en weer geslingerd tussen hoop en wanhoop. Een liefdesverhaal als de blues, gepassioneerd, melancholiek en onvergetelijk.
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