James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America) by James Baldwin

Toni Morrison's definitive edition of James Baldwin's incomparable nonfiction. Contains all the major essays collections in their entirety, plus 36 uncollected essays. James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto," "Everybody's Protest Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Stranger in the Village." Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. The classic Read more

From the Publisher James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97) James Baldwin: Later Novels (LOA #272) Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 1,500 577 189 Price $21 03 $22 42 $23 71 Deluxe hardcover volumes Edited by Toni Morrison, this is the most comprehensive edition of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published, including the complete texts of Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work. The fiction that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer of unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence, including the novels Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and Another Country and the story collection Going to Meet the Man. Library of America completes its edition of James Baldwin’s collected fiction with this volume gathering three revealing works of the late 1960s and 1970s: Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Just Above My Head. The James Baldwin Collection (3-vol. boxed set) Baldwin's complete fiction and collected nonfiction—the writings that transformed the way we think about race in America—in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set.