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This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here come from a variety of sources-newspapers, radio, journals, and review-and show this celebrated author in all his eloquence, anger, and perception of racial, social, ...

Excerpt from Eighth ReaderThe paramount design of this series of School Readers is to help young people to acquire the art and the habit of reading well that is, of interpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure and instruction to themselves and to those who listen to them. In his eighth year at school the pupil is supposed to be able to read, with ease and with some degree of ¿uency, anything in the English language that may...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and conte...

Excerpt from English Literature and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide to Systematic Reading and Study, Comprising Typical Selections, Illustrative Criticisms, and Exhaustive Analyses of the Best and Most Notable Works in the English Language This work has been prepared as an introduction to the study of English Literature - a subject which, for very many reasons, is one of the most important that can claim the attention of students in thi...

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