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The powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic.

'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama \n\n'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'\n\nJames Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. \n\n'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review\n\n'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times\n\n'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian

On her twenty-first birthday Monica Baldwin - daughter of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-eight years later, having realized she did not have a true vocation for the life of a nun, she obtained a special rescript from Rome and left the convent. But the world Monica had known and forsaken in 1914 was very different to the world she found when she emerged into it at the height of the Second World War - This book is the fascinating story of one woman's two very different lives, with lucid descriptions of the world of a novice, the duties of a nun's day, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. These are interwoven with the trials and tribulations of life in a new and alien world, as the author is confronted by fashions, interventions, politics and art that are totally unfamiliar to her. Humour, intelligence, an endearing humility and an exciting honesty characterize this remarkable book that gives readers both a glimpse into a hidden world and a uniquely fresh take on a familiar one.

È sera nel Greenwich Village e Rufus Scott, batterista jazz nero, si aggira da giorni senza meta e senza scopo per le strade di New York, una città feroce divisa in due da un fiume: da una parte i neri di Harlem, dall'altra i bianchi, ricchi o poveri che siano. \r\n«Il romanzo è ispirato a Henry James: è un tentativo di fondere James e il jazz» - la Repubblica\r\nAbbandonato da tutti e separato da Leona, la donna bianca che ama, si arrende all'ostilità che sente intorno a sé, lanciandosi da un ponte nelle acque gelate di novembre, incapace di sostenere il peso del giudizio e delle aspettative degli altri. Nessuno dei personaggi intorno a Rufus, legati a lui da amicizia o da amore, riuscirà a salvarlo dal suo destino, non ci riesce Vivaldo, l'amico irlandese che sogna di diventare scrittore, non ci riescono Cass e Richard con la loro apparente quiete famigliare, non ci riesce Eric che lo ha molto amato, non ci riesce Ida, la sorella che più di chiunque altro può capire la fatica di essere neri alla metà degli anni Cinquanta. In una New York lacerata dalla segregazione razziale un superlativo James Baldwin mette in scena la tragedia degli affetti, di un amore che non salva, di una fiducia che si scopre essere sempre mal riposta, di una coscienza che inganna prima di tutto se stessa.

Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richard's character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his detractors and supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne, a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda, or (as seems more likely) something in between?\n\nSome would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters and other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this through an in-depth study of Richard's dealings with his contemporaries and of information gleaned from the recent discovery of his skeleton. Tracking Richard's journey from birth to death, this new edition is brought right up to date with an exploration of the latest scientific discoveries and an account of the king's reburial in Leicester Cathedral. The fundamental question David Baldwin has answered is 'what was Richard III really like'.

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Nessuno sa il mio nome è la seconda raccolta di saggi di James Baldwin pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1961 e scritta durante la sua permanenza in Europa, quando la distanza dagli Stati Uniti gli aveva permesso di riflettere in modo nuovo sulla condizione delle persone nere in una società dominata dai bianchi. Trascendere la sterile categoria di blackness, sia essa quella imposta dal mondo bianco o quella eretta a scopo difensivo dalla comunità nera, divenne il nucleo dell’opera di Baldwin come scrittore. Riletto oggi in una edizione rivista e aggiornata, stupisce per l’attualità e la potenza, quella riconosciuta dei classici senza tempo.

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'\n\nJames Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom. \n\n'A classic ... In a divided America, James Baldwin's fiery critiques reverberate anew' Washington Post\n\n'Edgy and provocative, entertainingly satirical' Robert McCrum, Guardian\n\n'Cemented his reputation as a cultural seer ... Notes of a Native Son endures as his defining work, and his greatest' Time

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.\n\n'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'\n\nDrawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind. \n\n'His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field, Guardian\n\n'A beautiful, enduring, spirtual song of a novel' Andrew O'Hagan

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.\n\n'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it'\n\nAt the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.\n\n'The emotion surrounding family attachment... is deeply felt and is one reasons he continues to be read with such intensity' Colm Toibin

\"Una strada senza nome\", è un'opera a parte nel percorso letterario di James Baldwin. Scritto dal 1967 al 1971 ci riconduce all'infanzia dell'autore ad Harlem e ai cruciali avvenimenti della fine degli anni Sessanta, per testimoniare e denunciare le violenze e le ingiustizie generate dall'odio razziale.