books by James Baldwin     books:       The Price of the Ticket6 reviews James Baldwin Michael Joseph Ltd, 1985 Best American essayist With the possible exception of Tom Paine and Gore Vidal, Baldwin is the finest essayist. Most of his non-fiction is here, including his groundbreaking essay "Fifth Avenue, Uptown," the best single essay I have ever read. Of special interest, as one who enjoys movie criticism, is the entire book "The Devil Finds Work," in which Baldwin happily takes apart a number of American classic films. I was ...             No Name in the Street2 reviews James Baldwin Vintage, 2007 A brutally honest and searingly raw memoir It seems strange that this crisp and concise essay is less known and less read than Baldwin's earlier collections. True, he is angrier, rawer, less forgiving here, and his earlier diplomatic hopefulness has given way to a deeply cynical and contemptuous view of American society. Yet, given the atrocities Baldwin, along with his friends and colleagues, personally witnessed and underwent during the ...             Conversations With James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)1 review Fred L. Standley, Louis H. Pratt, ... Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1989 The Power of a Classic Author's Voice Since his death December 1, 1987, James Baldwin's reputation as a quintessential twentieth century American author has continued to increase in power and influence. The author of such diverse seminal works as the essay "The Fire Next Time," and the novels "Another Country" and "Just Above My Head," his literary voice has been described as one of those indispensable to American literature. A ...             Listening For God: Contemporary Literature And The Life Of Faith (Listening for God)3 reviews Michael Malone, James Baldwin, ... Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003 A wonderful resource for discussion groups Paula Carlson and Peter Hawkins have over the past several years pulled together short stories and a few essays, three volumes in all, from contemporary authors in which faith concerns of all types are raised. The authors are first-rate and include the well known--John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Gail Godwin, John Cheever and others--to lesser known authors like Tillie Olsen and Tess Gallgher. ...             Just Above My Head11 reviews James Baldwin Doubleday, 1979 An artist of words Probably one of the more underappreciated novels in American literature. It is unfair to charecterize Baldwin as merely a social critic of the civil rights era. He stands alongside Dickens as one of the great writers of any era, with the ability to articualte an understanding of human nature that trancends any era and stands second to none.             Fifty Famous People1 review James Baldwin Classic Books, 2008 Stories for Young and Old Educational and entertaining short stories about famous people of the world history: "One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring ...             The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches by Joseph G. Baldwin (Library of Southern ...1 review Joseph G. Baldwin Louisiana State University Press, 1987 Great historical resource Baldwin's Flush Times is a great historical resource. Baldwin paints an interesting tale of frontier Alabama and Mississippi and the characters which lived in the region. Overall, a great illustration of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era.             Memoirs of a Bastard Angel2 reviews Harold Norse Trafalgar Square, 1990 The Best Writer you've never heard of... Over the past decade or so, The Beats have become white hot...so much so imitators have come crawling out of the woodwork with their own bad poetry or semi-autobiographical tales of the East Village. Make no mistake about it: Harold Norse is the real thing...and more. From Barry Miles's book, The Beat Hotel: "...for a brief period -- from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the ...             Sonny's Blues2 reviews James Baldwin Pengiun Books, 1995 Sonny comes home to his brother after his dope addiction Sonny's Blues is a well written book by James Baldwin that captures the feeling of a recovering dope addicted young black man, Sonny, who is seeking a new life with his brother in Harlem with his jazz music as a way of telling his life story. It begins by Sonny's brother finding out in a newspaper that Sonny had been serving a jail sentence for his use of heroin. After a few years of not ...             Going to meet the man12 reviews James Baldwin Dell Pub. Co, 1966 Painful. Almost too painful. I am slowly understanding why Mr. Baldwin elected to leave the United States for more than a decade in the 1940s and 1950s. He apparently is on record as saying that he needed to flee because his anger was going to destroy him if he did not seek a respite from American injustice. Upon reading this collection, I think I am really beginning to understand what must have been going through his ...             The story of Roland (His Heroes of the olden time)1 review James Baldwin Scribner, 1888 The heart of chivalry A heroic tale from the middle ages full of romance, adventure, and splendor. A wonderful escape into another world. I highly recommend it.             Notes of a native son (Bantam modern classic)9 reviews James Baldwin Bantam Books, 1968 Angry, humorous, reflective essays on being a black American The ten essays in this collection were originally published in Commentary, Partisan Review, Harper's, and other national periodicals during the late 1940s and early 1950s; Baldwin revised a few essays, arranged them by theme, and added "Autobiographical Notes" as a preface. They are among the most compelling, insightful pieces ever written on what it means to be an American and, in particular, ...             James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No ...9 reviews James Baldwin Library of America, 1998 Like Nothing Else You've Read A lot of reviewers have talked about owning this book if you are distinctly interested in collecting works by black authors or in black studies. I think that this book is an essential element to anyone's library, in particular people interested in the craft of writing. Toni Morrison calls Baldwin the greatest essayist of the 20th century and I couldn't agree more. In this collection of essays, ...             Fragments in Philosophy and Science Being Collected Essays and Addresses1 review James Mark Baldwin Adamant Media Corporation, 2001 Baldwin- An amazing mind! Baldwin's most important theoretical legacy is the concept of the Baldwin Effect or Baldwinian evolution. Baldwin proposed, against Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, that there is a mechanism whereby epigenetic factors come to shape the genome as much as-or more than-natural selection pressures. In particular, human behavioural decisions made and sustained across generations as a set of cultural practices ...             Another Country40 reviews James Baldwin Dell Books, 1969 Interesting, Intense, Involving, Intelligent, Insightful, etc... I just finished this novel and I have to say that I was blown away by Baldwin's writing. I disagree with one of the reviewers who wrote that this should be required text for high school or jr. high students. For one thing, the subject matter is way too mature for their brains to digest at such a young age. This is a novel for intelligent adults with an open mind. If you are a homophobe or ...             The fire next time (A Dell book)30 reviews James Baldwin Dell, 1970 It came true The man knew what he was talking about, when he said the U S would burn because of racial discord.             Blues for Mister Charlie5 reviews James Baldwin Corgi Childrens, 1970 Blues for Ms. Tiffany! I have just finished this book, and I am sorry it has taken me so long to pick it up. You start reading and you almost forget it is a play! There is a lesson to be taught in this book, and one to be learned when finished. It shows more than one reality of living in the south back in this time. There was racism, there was tolerance,there was love and there was always turmoil! A battle to do the ...             If Beale Street Could Talk40 reviews James Baldwin Corgi Childrens, 1976 If Beale Street Could Talk . . . would America hear it? It is always a great disappointment and a tremendous joy to read Baldwin. The author's ability to bring the experiences of African American life and the circumstances under which those lives are lived here in America is a joyful, although difficult, reading experience. The disappointment comes in realizing that although Baldwin's canon of work spanned the late 1960's through 1970's, many of the ...             Giovanni's Room78 reviews James A. Baldwin Doubleday Books, 1985 introspective, subtle, but passionate and full of drama "Giovanni's Room", set in Paris of the 1950's, is a memorable study of a tormented soul of a young American, David. Narrated in the first person singular, this novel is deep and dark, making the reader feel the David's emotions and passions. David, who moved to France like many young Americans after the World War II, to pursue the freedom within the artistic atmosphere and the traditions of ...             Fifty famous stories retold (Eclectic school readings)10 reviews James Baldwin American Book Co, 1896 An important book This wonderful little book was first published in 1896 (at least that's the one I have). It contains fifty short stories that were originally considered indispensable for the education of truly literate and well-rounded children. The fifty stories are classics of American culture, and as such are almost completely forgotten in today's America. 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