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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, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on 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.
This edition of Native Son includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born,along with notes on the text.
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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
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Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Native Son (Native Son the restored text established by the library of America, 1908/2008 Centennial edition)
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February 1, 2008, Caedmon
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Native Son (P.S.)
April 29, 2008, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
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Native Son (Modern Classics)
August 2005, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
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Native Son
March 1, 2000, Greenhaven Press
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Native son
1998, Perennial Classics
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
1994, HarperPerennial
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Native Son: And How Bigger Was Born
January 1993, Harper Perennial
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
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Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
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Native son: the biography of a young American : a play in eleven scenes to be performed without intermission
1980, S. French, Samuel French
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Native Son
July 1977, Perfection Learning Prebound, Perfection Learning, San Val
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Native Son
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Native son.: With an introd.: "How 'Bigger' was born," by the author. Afterword by John Reilly.
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Native son: the biography of a young American : a play in ten scenes
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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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