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The Fire Next Time - Modern Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review

We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.

'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama

'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times

'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian

About the Publisher

Penguin Classics

In January 1946, the Penguin Classics list was launched with E. V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. The series now consists of over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive range of philosophy, religion, art, history and politics titles.

Book information

ISBN: 9780140182750
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 814.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 5958
Number of pages: 89
Weight: 80g
Height: 130mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 9mm