Richard Wright - Böcker

En av de stora svarta amerikanska romanerna »En gripande och engagerande roman skriven i en annan tid, men trots det fortfarande högst aktuell.« Kajsa Bellander, BTJ »En roman som förändrade den amerikanska kulturen för alltid.« Irving Howe Tjugoå...

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Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension. 'A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South...

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This practical guide for teaching numeracy to children with a developmental disability is based on core concepts from the landmark Mathematics Recovery¿ text Teaching Number (aka 'the green book') that have been adapted for children with developme...

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A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the authors grandson.When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Bo...

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Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago's slums, reckless, angry and adrift. A respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and poli...

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The enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement's inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this ...

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Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago s slums, reckless, angry and adrift.A respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and polic...

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"e;A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature."e; Chicago TribuneOriginally published in 1938,Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas,was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international ren...

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From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society...

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If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son. Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been head...

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A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons withPagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological ...

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Threeextraordinary and impassioned nonfiction worksby Richard Wright,one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together inone volume, withan introduction by Cornel West.The time is ripe to return to [Wrights] vision and vo...

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Newly RevisedThe Council of Christian Colleges and Universities SeriesStressing the biblical message of stewardship, biologist Richard T. Wright celebrates the study of Gods creation and examines the interaction of the life sciences with society i...

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When Johnny Gibbs learns that the family he thought he belonged to are not his blood relatives, and that he must go to a foster home, he runs away. "Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a new ge...

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The relationship between systematics and ecology has recently been invigorated, and developed a long way from the "old" field of comparative biology. This change has been two-fold. Advances in phylogenetic research have allowed explicit phylogenet...

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