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Native Son

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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Native Son

Harper Perennial Modern Classics Reissue (16)

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (7 ratings) ·
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  • 8 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

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 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.
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Language
English
Pages
520

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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
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
Hardcover in English
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Native Son
2000, Perennial Classics
Paperback in English - 1st Perennial Classics edition (8)
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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
Paperback in English - 1st HarperPerennial edition (5)
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Native Son
1989, Perennial Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Perennial Library edition, reissued (1)
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Un enfant du pays
January 14, 1988, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Native Son
1970?, Harper & Row
Mass Market Paperback in English - printing (27)
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Native son
1950, Signet Books
in English
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Native Son
1940, A Perennial Classic
in English
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Native Son
1940, Harper & Brothers
Hardcover in English - B-P

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Book Details

First Sentence

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

Edition Notes

P.S. readers guide
USA

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1993

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.R815N25 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
504, 16p.
Number of pages
520
Dimensions
7.7 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Weight
13.4 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL9237480M
ISBN 10
006083756X
ISBN 13
9780060837563
LCCN
98028838
OCLC/WorldCat
1082458233
Library Thing
8100
Goodreads
57600559

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL275128W

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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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