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Ritorno a Harlem" è il romanzo con cui Claude McKay fece conoscere al mondo intero i colori e le passioni di una cultura, quella afroamericana, che ha saputo mescolare avanguardia e sensualità, riscatto sociale e lussuria sfrenata. La Harlem di McKay non è semplicemente un quartiere, ma è un ostinato jazz che si distende sotto forma di romanzo, è amore carnale che parla con una prosa potente e rapida, è un odore forte e pungente emanato da ogn...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "Here is a young man, born in the British West Indies, who is without doubt the most talented and versatile of the new school of imaginative, emotional negro poets. Feeling intensely, at times bitterly, he succeeds, nevertheless, in preventing his emotions from affecting his genius as a poet. He has surety of expression, dept...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Banjo: A Story Without a PlotHello, money! Replied the tallest of the four, who Was just Banjo's build.Good night, money. What I want to know is cf you-all made that theah hole in the bottom a that box car? I neyab yet seen no hole m the bottom of a box car, and I've rode some rails back home in the States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from Banjo: A Story Without a PlotThey were all hungry. The boys had been sleeping, and woke up with an appetite. Before them the woman of the bistro set five plates of vegetable soup, a long loaf of bread, followed by braised beef and plenty of White beans. Malty called for five bottles of red wine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Spring in New Hampshire, and Other PoemsAn American edition is being published simultaneously by Alfred A. Knopf, 220 West Forty-second Street, New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserv...

Excerpt from Finding Out God's Secrets, and 43 Other Story-SermonsThe Clock that Learned a Secret. Wanted: A Bunch of Keys Visiting Porcupines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format...

Excerpt from Constab BalladsLet me confess it at once. I had not in me the stuff that goes to the making of a good constable, for I am so con stituted that imagination outruns discretion, and it is my misfortune to have a most improper sympathy with wrong doers. I therefore never made cases, but turning, like Nelson, a blind eye to what it was my manifest duty to see, tried to make peace, which seemed to me better.About the PublisherForgotten ...

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Excerpt from Harlem ShadowsBenin, although so wistful in their tranquillity, are tranquil in the possession Of the qualities of all Classic and great art, so these poems, the purest of them, move with a sovereignty that is never new to the lovers Of the high music of human utterance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an ...

A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedom The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and ...

New compilation of verse by an important Jamaican-American poet. Dialect verse, standard English poems from "Harlem Shadows, " uncollected works, more. Edited and with an introduction by Joan R. Sherman.

A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue.