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A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenaryNovelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time—which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights ...

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Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers"--

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In questo saggio autobiografico, contenuto in "The devil finds work" (1976) James Baldwin affronta e mette in relazione i principali temi che attraversano la sua opera: il valore e l'importanza dell'eccezione, del diverso, e il suo eterno conflitto con la norma, il senso dell'essere nero nella storia e nel presente degli Stati Uniti. Prendendo spunto dai suoi iniziali incontri con il cinema (e anche con la letteratura), grazie a Orilla Miller,...

In questo romanzo, Baldwin ci porta nella Harlem della sua adolescenza. Il suo stile narrativo, denso e ritmico, porta con sé una critica aspra del razzismo. Raccontando i contrasti di una famiglia attraverso due generazioni, dal sud rurale al ghetto del nord, "Gridalo forte" è il ritratto di persone catturate in una lotta drammatica e di una società in rapida trasformazione. Assente da tempo dal mercato italiano, vi ritorna ora in una nuova t...

Few locomotives are as widely known or excite so much interest as Flying Scotsman. Thus began Flying Scotsman's fame, which only continued as the locomotive broke records, becoming the first to exceed 100mph in 1934 and taking the longest journey of any steam locomotive in 1988-89.

The Brighton Atlantics were an important development in the motive power on the London Brighton & South Coast Railway.

This volume covers the history and development of the two classes of Great Northern Railway Atlantics.

Baldwin takes the reader on a railway journey through time, documenting the years of public and private ownership, from the Great Northern Railway in the early days, right through LNER and British Railways possession, to the tenure of Alan Pegler, Sir William McAlpine, Pete Waterman and beyond.