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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 headed for jail. It could have been...
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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 and with himself—a man of superior intellect who...
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"Gloriously accessible. . . . A book as lovely as the creatures it depicts. There's much here for specialists (lepidopterists; art historians) but lay readers too can savor an astonishingly beautiful 'pre-industrial butterfly world.'"—Library Journal
The first publication of Jones’s Icones, a...
Paul Green and Richard Wright
Adapted from the classic novel by Richard Wright
Drama
Characters: 15 male 14 female (w/doubling)
Multiple Sets
The story of Bigger Thomas a black youth seeking his identity in the white world. This adpatation was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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"Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . "
Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family...
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Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s 20-year-old Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man's house Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently...
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In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in...
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"Going to the Dogs" describes what came to be thought of as an almost sixteen-year retreat in everyday life in the care and company of three sheltie dogs. Beginning with a drive on a clear fall day in Vermont and the unplanned adoption of three little untrained puppies, the journey of dogs and their...
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Praise for the First Edition:
Sex Offender Laws . . . is a good source for a] balanced, objective, and thorough critique of our current sex offender policies as well as a source for accurate information about a very heterogeneous population. . . . The message that sexual abuse is often a...
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