James Baldwin

Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is "a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic). - Presented here in stunning hardcover and with an Introduction by Colm T ib n, New York Times bestselling author of The Master.David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni's curtainless room, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella's return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis, one that rapidly spirals into tragedy. Caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality, David struggles for self-knowledge during one long, dark night--"the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life." With sharp, probing insight, Giovanni's Room tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that lays bare the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored 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.

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book's reception than Baldwin's high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxed his old friend through the long and sometimes agonizing process of putting the volume together and seeing it into print. Now, in this fascinating new book, Sol Stein documents the story of his intense creative partnership with Baldwin through newly uncovered letters, photos, inscriptions, and an illuminating memoir of the friendship that resulted in one of the classics of American literature. Included in this book are the two works they created together-the story "Dark Runner" and the play Equal in Paris, both published here for the first time. Though a world of difference separated them-Baldwin was black and gay, living in self-imposed exile in Europe; Stein was Jewish and married, with a growing family to support-the two men shared the same fundamental passion. Nothing mattered more to either of them than telling and writing the truth, which was not always welcome. As Stein wrote Baldwin in a long, heartfelt letter, "You are the only friend with whom I feel comfortable about all three: heart, head, and writing." In this extraordinary book, Stein unfolds how that shared passion played out in the months surrounding the creation and publication of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, in which Baldwin's main themes are illuminated. A literary event published to honor the eightieth anniversary of James Baldwin's birth, Native Sons is a celebration of one of the most fruitful and influential friendships in American letters.

"A most important novel."--The New York Times Book ReviewA new edition of Louise Meriwether's classic novel about young Francie Coffin's coming-of-age in the vivid world of Harlem in the 1930s, including new pieces that celebrate the author's life, work, and activism.Francie Coffin is the daughter of a number runner: someone who collects betting slips for the illegal street lottery that carries the hopes of the people of Harlem in the 1930s. In Louise Meriwether's classic debut, an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1970, we see Harlem through Francie's eyes: in fraught family conversations, in friendships and movies and suppers at Father Divine's, in exiled sons and daughters, in dream books, in dignity under pressure. This edition contains the full text of the original novel, as well as its original foreword by James Baldwin and afterword by Nellie McKay, now expanded to include reactions to the novel by newer generations of Black women writers like Bridgett M. Davis and Deesha Philyaw, as well as two newly available interviews on Meriwether's legacy of writing, community, and activism.

Scho robit cholovika cholovikom? Jaki kriteriji maskulinnosti viznachaje suspilstvo i chi mozhlivo sliduvati jim usim? Jak buti, koli ti vidriznjajeshsja vid tsogo mirila? Molodij amerikanets Devid prijizhdzhaje do Frantsiji pid chas pauzi v stosunkakh z divchinoju. U Parizhi vin znajomitsja z barmenom Dzhovanni, mizh cholovikami vinikajut romantichni pochuttja. Devid perejizhdzhaje zhiti u krikhitnu kimnatu Dzhovanni, de jomu dovoditsja zitknutisja z krizoju vlasnoji identichnosti, naslidki jakoji vagomo povplivajut ne lishe na zhittja cholovika, a j na doli ljudej navkolo.

Da John Grimes vågner op i Harlem en lørdag i marts 1935, tror han først, at alle har glemt hans 14-års fødselsdag. Så da moren giver ham nogle penge og ønsker ham tillykke, lyser han op. Han bruger mønterne på en biograftur, men da han kommer hjem igen, er det til synet af hans bror, Roy, der ligger såret på sofaen – stukket ned af nogle hvide drenge. Overfaldet udløser et anfald af raseri hos faren, og som så ofte før, er det John vreden rettes mod. Råb det fra bjergene er historien om John, om hans komplicerede forhold til faren, Gabriel, en voldelig og dybt religiøs mand med en blakket fortid, om tanten, der i over 30 år har gemt et brev fra Gabriels første hustru, der gemmer på en skæbnesvanger hemmelighed, og om bedstemoren, der var slave i Sydstaterne, langt væk fra Harlem i nord, men alligevel så tæt på. Det er en roman om at forsøge at finde sin plads i familien, men også i religionen, og verden i det hele taget. Råb det fra bjergene er James Baldwins debutroman fra 1953, som her er nyoversat af Rasmus Hastrup.

James Baldwins, Nadie sabe mi nombre relata los ltimos meses del autoexilio de diez a os de este famoso escritor estadounidense en Europa, su regreso a Estados Unidos y a Harlem, y su primer viaje al sur en el momento de las batallas de integraci n escolar. Contiene los perfiles controvertidos e ntimos de Baldwin de Norman Mailer, Richard Wright e Ingmar Bergman. Y explora temas tan variados como las relaciones entre negros y blancos, el papel de los negros en Am rica y en Europa y otros temas.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.