"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 bewegende Kurzgeschichte von James Baldwin, die sich um zwei Brüder in Harlem dreht. Der ältere Bruder, ein Mathematiklehrer und Familienvater, lebt ein geordnetes Leben, während der jüngere Bruder Sonny mit...

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...

'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...

One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's the Autobiography of Malcolm X von Baldwin, James

In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the same name, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. "A major work of Black American fiction... His best...

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. von Baldwin, James