Vintage Baldwin

Vintage Baldwin

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.<br><br>“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —<i>The Saturday Review<br><br></i>In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics, and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.<br><br><b>Vintage Baldwin</b><i> </i>includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” and “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South”; and excerpts from the novel <b>Another Country</b><i> </i>and the play <b>The Amen Corner</b>.