Dark Days - format ePub

Entre 1979 et 1981, vingt-huit enfants, tous âgés entre 7 et 16 ans, tous noirs, tous issus de familles pauvres sont assassinés à Atlanta, Géorgie, dans le Sud profond des États-Unis.En juin 1981, un...

Si Beale Street pouvait parler, elle raconterait à peu près ceci : Tish, dix-neuf ans, est amoureuse de Fonny, un jeune sculpteur noir. Elle est enceinte et ils sont bien décidés à se marier. Mais Fonny,...

1951, Baldwin est le premier Noir qui séjourne à Leukerbad (Haut Valais, Suisse). Les enfants crient «Neger!», les gens le dévisagent : qui est cet Américain qui ressemble aux indigènes d’Afrique dont...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in...

The electrifying first novel from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris,...

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...

Non è mai troppo tardi per conoscere James Baldwin ma, se c’è un modo giusto per farlo, è con questo libro. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1963, La prossima volta il fuoco di James Baldwin colpisce...

Romanzo autobiografico e saggio a un tempo, Una strada senza nome – titolo tratto dal Libro di Giobbe – è un’opera a parte nel percorso letterario di James Baldwin che in queste pagine tesse e intreccia,...

David, un giovane newyorkese in fuga da se stesso, è approdato a Parigi nel tentativo di affrancarsi dalla propria educazione, e dalla vita da ragazzo perbene che sembra essergli stata cucita addosso....

In "Se la strada potesse parlare" James Baldwin ci racconta una struggente storia d'amore in un mondo fatto di dolore e ingiustizia. Attraverso gli occhi di Tish, una diciannovenne bella e innamorata,...

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting...

Includes fifty legendary tales depicting certain romantic episodes in the lives of well known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. Children naturally take a deep interest in such stories....

In the realm of literature, few characters have captured the imagination like Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight errant. Now, in this captivating collection, James Baldwin presents a fresh and insightful...

In questo meraviglioso romanzo James Baldwin ci restituisce una toccante storia d'amore in un mondo fatto di dolore e ingiustizia. La storia è raccontata attraverso gli occhi di Tish, una diciannovenne...

Rufus Scott n’en pouvait plus de vivre dans le monde cruel et implacable des Blancs, humilié, abandonné de tous, écrasé par le poids d’une cité inhumaine. Par une nuit froide de novembre, il est allé...

Dans le Harlem des années cinquante, se nouent les destins de quatre adolescents : Julia l’enfant évangéliste qui enflamme les foules, Jimmy son jeune frère, Arthur le talentueux chanteur de gospel et...

En dépit des bouleversements psychologiques et sociaux qu'il exige, cet ouvrage ne veut que proposer la solution de bon sens au problème de la place des Noirs dans la société américaine. Malgré le ton...

Dans une maison du Sud de la France, à la tombée du jour, un homme se souvient. Jeune Américain installé à Paris pour fuir un père autoritaire et ses propres démons, David est fiancé à l’intrépide Hella....

Au soir de ses quatorze ans, dans une boutique désaffectée de Harlem, au milieu des prières et des trépignements cadencés de ses frères, au rythme hallucinant des tambourins, John Grimes traverse un moment...

" Ce que les Blancs doivent faire, c'est essayer de trouver au fond d'eux-mêmes pourquoi, tout d'abord, il leur a été nécessaire d'avoir un "nègre', parce que je ne suis pas un "nègre'. Je ne suis pas...

En dépit des bouleversements psychologiques et sociaux qu'il exige, cet ouvrage ne veut que proposer la solution de bon sens au problème de la place des Noirs dans la société américaine. Malgré le ton...

Les quatorze essais regroupés dans ce volume, publiés à l’origine dans divers journaux et revues, couvrent une période allant de 1960 à 1985. James Baldwin y évoque les marches pour les droits civiques,...

À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de James Baldwin, l’une des figures littéraires américaines les plus brillantes et incandescentes du XXe siècle, les Éditions Stock publient un recueil de textes...

États-Unis, années 1960. Au sommet de sa carrière, l’acteur noir américain Leo Proudhammer est terrassé par une crise cardiaque. Alors qu’il oscille entre la vie et la mort, il se remémore les choix qui...

« Mon amie Ava Gardner m’a demandé un jour si je pensais qu’elle pouvait incarner Billie Holiday au cinéma. Je dus lui répondre que, même si elle avait sans doute tout ce qu’il fallait pour ça - elle...

Dans le Harlem des années cinquante, se nouent les destins de quatre adolescents : Julia l’enfant évangéliste qui enflamme les foules, Jimmy son jeune frère, Arthur le talentueux chanteur de gospel et...

James Baldwin a écrit cette pièce en 1964 en réaction à l'assassinat de son ami Medgar Evers, militant des droits civiques, abattu devant son domicile du Mississippi le 12 juin 1963 par un suprémaciste...

"J’aime l’Amérique plus que n’importe quel autre pays au monde, et, exactement pour la même raison, je tiens au droit de la critiquer en permanence." Dans ces essais écrits durant les années 1940 et...

"Certains échappaient à cette prison. La plupart y demeuraient. Ceux qui s'en échappaient laissaient toujours quelque chose d'eux-mêmes en arrière, comme certains animaux qui se coupent une patte et la...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...

The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...