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An edition of Native Son (1940)

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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.


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Distributed by the Book-of-the-Month Club
Language
English
Pages
359

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Subjects

African American men, African americans, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Bildungsromans, Blacks, classic literature, Communism, Crime, Crime fiction, Criminals, Death row inmates, Drama, fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Murder, Murderers, open_syllabus_project, psychological fiction, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Trials (Murder), African americans, fiction, Thomas, bigger (fictitious character), fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Bigger Thomas (Fictitious character), African American men in literature, Trials (Murder) in literature, Murder in literature, American literature, History and criticism, Fiction, psychological, Crime, fiction, Criminals, fiction, Wright, richard, 1908-1960, Fiction, general, Literary collections, Thomas, bigger (fictitious character)

People

Bigger Thomas, Vera Thomas, Mrs. Thomas, Henry Dalton, Gus, G.H., Jack Harding, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Peggy, Jan Erlone, Bessie, Mr. Britten, Boris Max, Buddy Thomas, Buckley

Places

Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), ENGLAND, Illinois, Chicago's South Side, Washington Park

Times

1930s

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Cover of: Native Son
Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback in English - Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)
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Native Son
January 2008, Chelsea House Publishers
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
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Native son
1998, Perennial Classics
in English - 1st Perennial Classics ed.
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
1994, HarperPerennial
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
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Native Son
1989, Harper & Row
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Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
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Native son
1987, Distributed by the Book-of-the-Month Club
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Native Son
1970?, Harper & Row
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Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers
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Edition Notes

Reproduction of 1st ed. Imprint on t.p. reads: Harper & Brothers publishers, New York and London, 1940.
Accompanied by booklet ([12] p. ; 20 cm.) entitled: Native son : a new introduction / by David Bradley.
At head of booklet title: A Book-of-the Month Club classic.

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Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Book-of-the-Month Club classic.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.R815 N25 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
359 p. ;
Number of pages
359

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2249123M
LCCN
89124834
Library Thing
8100

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BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
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