The Fire Next Time

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Author: Baldwin, James Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersPublished on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.Paperback | 128 pages180 x 110 x 9 | 82g 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement. Show more