Go Tell It on the Mountain von Baldwin, James

James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the...

"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate...

'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. von Baldwin, James

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay...

"Sonny's Blues" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von James Baldwin, die erstmals 1957 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im Harlem der 1950er Jahre und wird aus der Perspektive eines namenlosen Erzählers erzählt, der als Mathematiklehrer...

Sounds a clarion warning to the world. von Baldwin, James

James Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication,...

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but...

"Brilliantly and fiercely told." -The New York TimesNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of...

"Giovannis Zimmer" ist ein Roman von James Baldwin, nicht von Hans-Heinrich Wellmann. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte von David, einem jungen Amerikaner, der in Paris lebt und mit seiner sexuellen Identität ringt. Er beginnt eine...

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with...