Resultaten voor 'james baldwin'

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  1. Giovanni's Room
    1. James Baldwin

    Giovanni's Room

    When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities.

    € 13,95
  2. The Fire Next Time
    1. James Baldwin

    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

    € 8,50
  3. If Beale Street Could Talk
    1. James Baldwin

    If Beale Street Could Talk

    Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny.

    € 14,95
  4. Go Tell it on the Mountain
    1. James Baldwin

    Go Tell it on the Mountain

    Presents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

    € 14,95
  5. Another Country
    1. James Baldwin

    Another Country

    After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.

    € 17,95
  6. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
    1. James Baldwin

    Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

    Truth-telling, witness bearing, soul stirring writing

    € 14,95
  7. Just Above My Head
    1. James Baldwin

    Just Above My Head

    Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love.

    € 15,50
  8. Fifty Famous Stories Retold
    1. James Baldwin

    Fifty Famous Stories Retold

    James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American textbook editor and author who had enormous influence in the publication of grammar and history textbooks at the beginning of the twentieth century. Born into a Quaker family in rural Indiana, he was largely self-educated. After publishing his first work, The Story of Siegfried (1882) he wrote more than fifty books, including Old Greek Stories (1895) and Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895).

    € 8,50
  9. Kom, roep het van de bergen
    1. James Baldwin

    Kom, roep het van de bergen

    Het 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.

    € 23,99
  10. Giovanni's Room
    1. James Baldwin

    Giovanni's Room

    Extraordinarily exact and complex emotional intimacy . . . At the core of the novel lies Baldwin’s recognition that with a denial of suffering and pain as a means of happiness, there can be no feeling, understanding, or real connection in life

    € 23,50
  11. The Fire Next Time
    1. James Baldwin

    The Fire Next Time

    Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

    € 13,95
  12. Giovanni's kamer
    1. James Baldwin

    Giovanni's kamer

    Giovanni’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

    € 22,50