At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood...
James Baldwin has collected fifty wonderful stories, including Robin Hood, William Tell, King Alfred And Julius Caesar. Your child will be delighted to hear or read these, and will not only be entertained, but learn about history and folklore. These stori...
Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days , The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better...
James Baldwin's classic collection of stories that have shaped our culture and our civilisation. Everyone should know these stories, like Androcles and the Lion, Damon and Pythius, the Brave Three Hundred, and more.
James Baldwin's classic collection of stories that have shaped our culture and our civilisation. Everyone should know these stories, like Androcles and the Lion, Damon and Pythius, the Brave Three Hundred, and more.
'A classic .. Take the words out of the 1950s, when they were published, and they could apply to the women in pink hats, the scientists, the Black Lives Matter activists, the climate-change believers and the LGBTQ-rights supporters who have flooded...
In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be complete...
The Library of America completes its edition of the collected fiction of the literary voice of the Civil Rights era with this volume gathering three revealing later works of the 1960s and â 70s .
Bound for Distant Seas begins sailing author James Baldwin's epic tale of his second circumnavigation. His story is seasoned by his adventures during his first circumnavigation in 1984-86 as told in Across Islands and Oceans. Alone with little money...
Four Great Americans is an introduction to four of the greatest Americans; George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. The stories of each give insight into the trials and successes which helped mold their character and crea...
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this âtruly extraordinaryâ novel...