Results for 'toni morrison'

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Hour of the Star
    1. Clarice Lispector

    Hour of the Star

    Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.

    € 13,95
  4. The Bluest Eye
    1. Toni Morrison

    The Bluest Eye

    A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

    € 13,95
  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. Parable of the Talents
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Parable of the Talents

    the extraordinary sequel to the bestselling modern classic, Parable of the Sower

    From the celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to Parable of the Sower - an extraordinary novel ahead of its time.

    € 14,95
  7. The Help
    1. Kathryn Stockett

    The Help

    The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable

    € 12,50
  8. The Color Purple
    1. Alice Walker

    The Color Purple

    Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

    The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker.NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD

    € 14,95
  9. 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
  10. And Still I Rise
    1. Maya Angelou

    And Still I Rise

    The re-issue of AND STILL I RISE, first published in 1986, from Maya Angelou - one of the most celebrated writers and poets of the world.

    € 13,95
  11. Wild Seed
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Wild Seed

    A PATTERNIST NOVEL (1): It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Together they will change the world.

    € 14,95
  12. Parable of the Sower
    1. Octavia E. Butler

    Parable of the Sower

    the New York Times bestseller

    The extraordinary, prescient New York Times bestseller - a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.

    € 14,95