| Edition |
First Perennial Classics edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 504, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Harper Perennial modern classics
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Harper Perennial modern classics.
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| Note |
"The restored text, established by the Library of America." |
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Originally published in 1940 by Harper & Brothers ; restored edition copyright ©1993 by Ellen Wright. |
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Some releases bound by Paw Prints. |
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ALA banned and challenged classics. |
| Summary |
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America. |
| Subject |
Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Thomas, Bigger (Fictitious character) |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
African American men -- Fiction.
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African American men. |
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Death row inmates -- Fiction.
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Death row inmates. |
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Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
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Trials (Murder) |
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
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Murderers -- Fiction.
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Murderers. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0061148504 (reissue (paperback) |
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1435293401 (Paw Prints bdg.) |
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0756964415 (reissue, new cover) |
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006083756X (reissue (paperback) |
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9780060837563 (reissue (paperback) |
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9780061148507 (reissue (paperback) |
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9781435293403 (Paw Prints bdg.) |
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9780756964412 (reissue, new cover) |
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