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An edition of Native Son (1940)

Native Son

and How Bigger Was Born

1st HarperPerennial edition (5)

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (7 ratings) ·
  • 166 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 24 Have read

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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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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Native Son
2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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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
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Native Son: and How Bigger Was Born
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Native Son
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1989, Harper & Row
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1940, Harper & Brothers
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First Sentence

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

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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1993

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3545.R815N26 1993

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxviii, 594p.
Number of pages
594
Dimensions
7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
11.2 ounces

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OL9236985M
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nativesonandhowb00wrig
ISBN 10
0060812494
ISBN 13
9780060812492
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8100
Alibris ID
9780060812492
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1410525

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