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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil FindsWork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time— which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today—along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Street 's extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the "passionate, probing, controversial" ( The Atlantic ) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work , Baldwin's stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time— which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today—along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Street 's extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the "passionate, probing, controversial" ( The Atlantic ) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work , Baldwin's stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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520 pages, Hardcover
Published July 9, 2024
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James Baldwin
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Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.
In his Giovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.
He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influential Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time informed a large white audience. Another Country talks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. Segments of the black nationalist community savaged his gay themes. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People produced Blues for Mister Charlie , play of Baldwin, in 1964. Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, defended Baldwin.
Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.
From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.
Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.
In his Giovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.
He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influential Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time informed a large white audience. Another Country talks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. Segments of the black nationalist community savaged his gay themes. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People produced Blues for Mister Charlie , play of Baldwin, in 1964. Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, defended Baldwin.
Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.
From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.
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January 12, 2025
What else can be said about one of the most gifted writers in modern history? My personal favorite essay, "The Fire Next Time", highlights Baldwin's uncanny and prescient vision of America's future. Time and time again, Baldwin has been proven right by the events unfolding in this country. His bravery is matched only by his famous prose as he deftly weaves through the litany of issues that plague America, most notably those of class and race. His words and lessons should be mandatory reading for all Americans, for his ability to see through us like an X-Ray machine was both a gift and a curse for this extraordinary man.
November 9, 2024
This book is a collection of four books of essays which were originally seperately published:
Book 1 "The Fire Next Time" - an essay collection exploring the civil rights movement in the 1969@s and how the decisions undertaken at the time affect race today in America
Book 2 "No One Knowes My Name" - a follow up to a previous book Notes Of A Native Son which is a look at racial segregation on his trip to the southern states of America whilst at the time exploring his role as an artist
Book 3 "No Name In The Street" - a reflection of his experiences, in America and Paris and how it that shaped him as a writer and an activist including his relationship and thoughts about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
Book 4 " The Devil Finds Work" - an incisive account of how black Americans were potrayed in films and how he sought for justice,equality and social change
Each of the books are timeless. Baldwin was an accomplished essayist portraying his situation as a black man in America with both tenderness and anger. A profound yet strikingly personal collection profound but told with empathy and humanity A sentiment that still applies today.
A must read
Book 1 "The Fire Next Time" - an essay collection exploring the civil rights movement in the 1969@s and how the decisions undertaken at the time affect race today in America
Book 2 "No One Knowes My Name" - a follow up to a previous book Notes Of A Native Son which is a look at racial segregation on his trip to the southern states of America whilst at the time exploring his role as an artist
Book 3 "No Name In The Street" - a reflection of his experiences, in America and Paris and how it that shaped him as a writer and an activist including his relationship and thoughts about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
Book 4 " The Devil Finds Work" - an incisive account of how black Americans were potrayed in films and how he sought for justice,equality and social change
Each of the books are timeless. Baldwin was an accomplished essayist portraying his situation as a black man in America with both tenderness and anger. A profound yet strikingly personal collection profound but told with empathy and humanity A sentiment that still applies today.
A must read
December 15, 2024
Unflinchingly engage in the soul craft
July 30, 2025
I wouldn’t recommend *Nobody Knows My Name*
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