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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Native Son

1st Perennial Classics edition (8)

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.86 ·
  • 7 Ratings
  • 155 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny: by chance. it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s. Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
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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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Native Son
2020, Penguin Random House
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Native Son
Sep 16, 2014, Harper Perennial
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Native Son
2014, Lectorum Publications, Incorporated
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Native Son
2009, HarperCollins
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Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Native Son
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Native Son
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1964, New American Library
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1961, New American Library
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1957, Harper
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Son av sitt land
1943, A. Bonniers
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1942, The Modern Library
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1941, Harper
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1940, Harper & Brothers
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1940, Victor Gollancz
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New York

Edition Notes

US/CAN

Genre
Fiction
Copyright Date
1993

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.R815N25 1998, PS3545.R815 N25 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 504 p.
Number of pages
504

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23244101M
Internet Archive
nativeson000wrig
ISBN 10
0060929804
ISBN 13
9780060929800
LCCN
98028838
OCLC/WorldCat
1045466886
Goodreads
57600459

Work Description

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