Native Son American Classics Edition : Richard Wright

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Richard Wright A Novel Paperback FICTION/Classics Series: HarperCollins American Classics American Classics Edition Richard Wright’s quintessential, immediately bestselling protest novel, following a young Black man's life after he accidentally kills a young white woman in a moment of panic. This edition is a part of the HarperCollins American Classics collection, published in celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary. This edition of Native Son reprints the original edition in which Wright omitted several passages which book club editors feared would prove offensive to readers in 1940 and which were restored to the book in later editions.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is just as meaningful today as when it was written, both in its unsparing reflection of the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and in what it means to be black in America. An undisputed classic since it was first published, Native Son has sold close to three million copies.This edition—the original 1940 text—includes an afterword by John Reilly and contains an introduction, “How ‘Bigger’ was Born” by Richard Wright. Show more