{"product_id":"uncle-toms-children-novellas-isbn-9780061450204","title":"Uncle Tom's Children: Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I found these stories both heartening. . . and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets no chance to die.\" —Malcolm Cowley, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Wright's powerful collection of novellas set in the American Deep South\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the poignant and devastating stories in \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom's Children\u003c\/em\u003e concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. This extraordinary collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled \"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1938, \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom's Children \u003c\/em\u003ewas the first book from Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. The author of numerous works, most notably the acclaimed novel \u003cem\u003eNative Son \u003c\/em\u003eand his stunning autobiography, \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy, \u003c\/em\u003eWright\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003estands today as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Taking for its characters Negro men and women at bay in the oppressive Southern environment, the book represents one of the few instances in which an American Negro writer has successfully delineated the universals embodied in Negro experience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Library of America has insured that most of Wright’s major texts are now available as he wanted them to be read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We have an opportunity to assess Wright’s formidable and lasting contribution to American literature .. . . They have returned to the 1940 second printing of \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom’s Children\u003c\/em\u003e which included one additional story, ‘Bright and Morning Star,’ and ‘The Ethics of Jim Crow,’ thus offering us all the selections Wright wished the collection to have.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Johnson, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In violating the unspoken agreement regarding what could or could not be uttered about race relations in this country, Wright brought to bear both the rhetorical force of leftist polemic and the imaginative energy and cultural richness of Afro-American folklore with a power and a coherence that he may never have again achieved.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Yarborough, from the Introduction of Uncle Tom's Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I found these stories both heartening, as evidence of a vigorous new talent, and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets no chance to die.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Cowley, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These stories burn like a house afire. They sing as well as sear; and what they have to say is as startling as a race riot.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLewis Gannett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887820271845,"sku":"NP9780061450204","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061450204.jpg?v=1730227532","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/uncle-toms-children-novellas-isbn-9780061450204","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}