James Baldwin

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for continued literary...

"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...

A fantastic collection of 15 ancient Greek myths compiled by American editor and author James Baldwin.

50 Short Ethical Lessons for Children. Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin isn't a biographical book. It's in fact a guide about life and how certain 'famous' people influenced the world we live in. Easy to read? Yes! Effective and transforming? No doubt!

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."

In questo meraviglioso romanzo James Baldwin ci restituisce una toccante storia d'amore in un mondo fatto di dolore e ingiustizia. La storia è raccontata attraverso gli occhi di Tish, una diciannovenne bella e innamorata di Fonny, il giovane scultore padre del suo bambino. Il racconto mescola romanticismo e tristezza. Tish e Fonny avevano programmato di sposarsi ma Fonny viene accusato ingiustamente di stupro da un poliziotto bianco e imprigionato....

Romanzo autobiografico e saggio a un tempo, Una strada senza nome – titolo tratto dal Libro di Giobbe – è un'opera a parte nel percorso letterario di James Baldwin che in queste pagine tesse e intreccia, in un crudo arazzo, fatti temporalmente e geograficamente lontani. La questione razziale è il fil rouge. Scritto, come l'autore tiene a farci notare, dal 1967 al 1971 tra New York-San Francisco-Hollywood- Istanbul-Saint-Paul-de-Vence, grazie...

New York, 1960. Leo Proudhammer, celebre attore nero di cinema e teatro, è colpito in scena da un attacco cardiaco che lo getta all'improvviso in un'isola di stasi e silenzio. Stravolto, indebolito, è come se i particolari della sua vita si scomponessero davanti ai suoi occhi costringendolo a riconsiderare tutto ciò che si è lasciato alle spalle. A letto, lontano dalla vita frenetica degli ultimi anni, Leo ricorda i momenti cruciali della sua...

Paves the way to an enjoyable reading of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, by presenting the legends about the causes of the Trojan War woven into a continuous narrative, ending where the story of the Iliad begins. The youthful Odysseus is the hero, as he journeys to visit his grandfather Autolycus, then Nestor and Menelaus, hearing the old stories as he goes. (Goodreads)

Fifty Famous People is comprised of short stories about people, some more famous than others. The stories cannot be strictly called biographical but there is truth in each of them. Each person has had a lasting influence and an ethical lesson can be found in each story. (Goodreads)