Dark Days, 9780241337547
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Baldwin’s searing essays: prejudice, politics, and hope for a better world.
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Dark Days

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  • Paperback

    64 pages

  • Release Date

    25 February 2018

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Summary

Dark Days: A Glimpse into Racial Injustice

Fifty new books at £1 each celebrate the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin’s searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

“So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241337547
ISBN-10:0241337542
Series:Penguin Modern
Author:James Baldwin
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:64
Release Date:25 February 2018
Weight:47g
Dimensions:161mm x 113mm x 5mm
About The Author

James Baldwin

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.

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