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Toni Morrison
The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows…
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The unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son.
Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of…
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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.
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As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other’s secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Sula is a story of fear - the fear that…
It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace shoots to death his lover, the impetuous 18-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the…
A captivating novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter'…
This is the story of Macon Milkman Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards…
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens’ life changes…
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Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is…
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Susan Neal Mayberry
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings.
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Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie…
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead…
Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.
The…
The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of…
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.
"A vivid and emotive re-exploration of Shakespeare's Desdemona from Othello, republished in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series"--
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Joyce L Markovics
"Find out about Toni Morrison, a celebrated fiction and nonfiction writer, in this biography for young readers. Learn about her life and uncover how she used the power of her…
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Morrison’s Nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to Amnesty International and the Newspaper Association of America.
A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey.
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The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her…
Marilyn Sanders Mobley
"In this interdisciplinary work of literary criticism, ... Toni Morrison scholar Marilyn S. Mobley endeavors to apply geopoetcs toward establishing a new framework for understanding Morrison's famous call to create…
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Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric…
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this book, the author unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. It also includes the…
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral…
A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison.
Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed
Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities places comparative literature in a postcolonial context in order to widen its traditional scope and thereby pay…
Carole Boston Weatherford
From award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford comes a captivating picture book biography about the incredible life of esteemed author, editor, and activist Toni Morrison, featuring gorgeous illustrations by debut artist…
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Over the course of his career, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was inspired by both romance and politics. The use of literature as a tool for social change is also…
A stunning, relevant short story (the only one Toni Morrison wrote), with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith
Morrison’s magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel – first published in 1987 – brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader’s comprehension.
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES…
James Baldwin
Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin’s nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as…
Nellie McKay
Covers the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
Winner of the Pultizer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and the Noble Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison’s fiction has had a profound effect in…
Wilfred D. Samuels,Clenora Hudson-Weems
Covers novelist and editor Toni Morrison.
Linden Peach
This New Casebook provides an overview of the criticism of work by Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature, and an introduction to the…
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Pelagia Goulimari
This guide to Morrison’s trail-blazing work offers an introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of her texts, from publication to the present. It is essential reading for all those…
Janey Levy
Toni Morrison was one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. She was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Lawrie Balfour
When Toni Morrison declares that she
Jill Matus
An introduction to Toni Morrison’s fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison’s work. It approaches Morrison’s…
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Richard Andersen
First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her…
