BOOKS by Richard Wright

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1	Native Son more books like this by Richard Wright 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 ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future more books like this by Richard T Wright, Bernard J Nebel For introductory courses in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Environmental Biology. This text focuses on the question "What will it take to move our civilization toward a long-term sustainable relationship with the natural world?" Its goal is to engage and inform students so they can critically evaluate environmental issues and ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £17.65!
3	Black boy more books like this by Richard Wright At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year's formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Black boy, a record of childhood and youth more books like this by Richard Wright Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work. see all copies from £3.07! new only from £11.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Black Boy: American Hunger a Record of Childhood and Youth more books like this by Richard Wright, Jerry W Ward, Jr. (Introduction by) With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. "Black Boy" is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright' s journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man' s coming off age during a particular time and place, "Black Boy" remains a seminal text in our history about ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
6	Outsider more books like this by Richard Wright Here is Wright's compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past. "The novel, which builds steadily to a clamorous denunciation of the rival totalitarianisms of Communism and Fascism, also offers a dire--and accurate--prediction of a world wide revival of religious fundamentalism in response to the spiritual gloom spawned by these ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £8.32! \| first editions
7	Uncle Toms Children more books like this by Richard Wright This fascinating and famous collection brings to life postslavery characters in their full psychological and emotional depth and contains all of the short works included in the 1940 second printing. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Environmental Science: The Way the World Works more books like this by Bernard J Nebel Known for its currency and readability, this text focuses on enabling students to critically evaluate the latest environmental issues and to apply that understanding to situations and events in their everyday lives. It explores the interactions of humans within the natural environment and probes issues thoroughly-examining their scientific basis, ... see all copies from £1.49! new only from £7.07! \| first editions
9	Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future more books like this by Bernard J Nebel, Richard T Wright Known for its currency and readability, this book focuses on enabling readers to critically evaluate the latest environmental issues and to apply that understanding to situations and events in their everyday lives. It explores the interactions of humans within the natural environment and probes issues thoroughly examining their scientific basis, ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
10	Clara Callan more books like this by Richard Bruce Wright This novel, told in diaries, is set in the mid-1930s and tells the story of Clara (the diarist) and her sister Nora. Nora has gone off to New York City where she stars in a radio soap opera, but Clara is a prosaic schoolteacher in their small Canadian town. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Rite of Passage more books like this by Richard Wright "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. And now he is being sent to live with someone else ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £5.12! \| first editions
12 view cover	A Father's Law more books like this by Richard Wright Wrights daughter, Julia, explains that this novel, written shortly before her fathers death, explores many themes . . . like guilt, the difficult relationship between the generations, [and] the difficulty of being a black police officer and father . . . [and is] astonishingly modern for a novel written in 1960. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
13 view cover	Black Voices more books like this by Richard Wright, Various, Abraham Chapman (Editor) This anthology featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism features contributions from noted African-American writers such as Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more, presenting some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.28!
14 view cover	Biology Through the Eyes of Faith: Christian College Coalition Series more books like this by Richard T Wright This comprehensive work, one of a series cosponsored by the Christian College Coalition, addresses the needs of the Christian student of biology to align both science and faith. It demonstrates that the study of biology penetrates to the very depths of existence and can contribute to the construction of a consistent Christian world view. Richard ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
15 view cover	Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues more books like this by Paul Oliver, Richard Wright (Foreword by) This is a new, thoroughly revised edition of Paul Oliver's classic study of the blues. First published in 1960, this remarkable book has not been superseded and its reappearance will be welcomed by all who wish to understand the complexity of meaning in the blues and the experiences which they expressed. The book examines the functions of the ... see all copies from £9.26! new only from £11.78! \| first editions
16 view cover	Pagan Spain more books like this by Richard Wright Richard Wright chronicles his trip to Spain in 1954, capturing the beauty and tragedy of the country under the rigid rule of Francisco Franco. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	12 million black voices. more books like this by Richard Wright 12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £11.86! \| first editions
18 view cover	Eight Men more books like this by Richard Wright Eight stories of black men and their violent encounters with the white world. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.76! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Long Dream more books like this by Richard Wright Now available in a new edition. Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization and plot that dramatizes Richard Wright's themes of oppression, exploitation, corruption, and flight. It is the story of Fishbelly (called Fish), the son of Tyree Tucker, a prominent black mortician and owner of a brothel whose ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £11.78! \| first editions
20 view cover	OpenGL SuperBible more books like this by Richard S Wright, Jr., Michael Sweet In a world where everything from how we take pictures to how we get our food is designed to happen as quickly and easily as possible, it can take a lot longer to learn how to make it all work behind the scenes. Theories and concepts can weigh you down when all you really want to know is how to create, design and go. That's where OpenGL SuperBible ... see all copies from £7.99! new only from £9.71!
21	American Hunger more books like this by Richard Wright The compelling continuation of Wright's great autobiographical work, Black Boy. see all copies from £4.80! new only from £20.06! \| first editions
22 view cover	Savage Holiday more books like this by Richard A. Wright Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced by corporate intrigue into the long holiday of retirement, becomes enmeshed in a weekend of bizarre and bloody circumstances that reveal his troubled psyche and desperation. Naked and accidentally locked out of his apartment, he inadvertently causes a boy to fall to his death. Driven by guilt and by a ... see all copies from £8.32! new only from £16.60! \| first editions
23 view cover	White Man, Listen! more books like this by Richard Wright A collection of the controversial and passionate lectures that Richard Wright delivered in Europe from 1950 to 1956 on such topics as race in America, Black literature, and nationalism in Africa. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £10.74! \| first editions
24 view cover	Lawd Today more books like this by Richard Wright Back in its original unabridged form, a novel of Depression-era Chicago. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £15.71! \| first editions
25 view cover	Eight Men: Short Stories more books like this by Richard Wright, Professor Paul Gilroy (Introduction by) Eight stories of black men and their violent encounters with the white world. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.01!

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