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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Ron Butler
Duration 5h 4m
Brought to you by Penguin.'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at th...
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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin.The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their famili...
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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Dion Graham
Duration 16h 13m
Brought to you by Penguin.'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in...
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Author: James Baldwin
Author James Baldwin
Narrator The Author
Duration 18h 58m
James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States.This is a collection of his speeches and lectures.
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