Richard Wright
1) Native son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities...
2) [Works]
Author
Series
Library of America volume 55-56
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
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Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system.
This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the...
6) The outsider
Author
Language
English
Description
[The author] presents a compelling story of a black 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 who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
From back cover or book: "Richard Wright, one of the early, forceful, and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy, discovered haiku in his last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man's relationship not only to his fellow man, as he had in the raw and powerful prose of his fiction, but to...
13) Rite of passage
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging.
15) Lawd today!
Author
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
[1993], c1991
Language
English
Description
An unexpurgated version of twentieth-century African-American writer Richard Wright's 1963 novel, which chronicles a day in the life of an African-American postal clerk in Depression era Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Butterflies immediately catch our attention with their beautiful wing patterns and colors. They exemplify metamorphosis with the creeping caterpillar transforming into a soaring butterfly. They have also come to be creatures of science, revealing much to biologists about evolution and the ecological processes and historical accidents that have generated the diversity of life on Earth. ...Dick Vane-Wright provides a complete introduction to the biology,...