Bill's bookshelf: currently-reading en-US Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:48:26 -0700 60 Bill's bookshelf: currently-reading 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Man in the Iron Mask (The d'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)]]> 6093366
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 626 Alexandre Dumas 0199537259 Bill 0 currently-reading 4.09 The Man in the Iron Mask (The d'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)
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]]> The War with the Fnools 3157042 32 Philip K. Dick Bill 0 currently-reading 3.20 1964 The War with the Fnools
author: Philip K. Dick
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Little Black Box]]> 1409090
Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle, and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the late 1950's.

Volume 5/5. Contents:
- The Little Black Box (1964)
- The War With the Fnools (1964)
- A Game of Unchance (1964)
- Precious Artifact (1964)
- Retreat Syndrome (1965)
- A Terran Odyssey (1987)
- Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday (1966)
- Holy Quarrel (1966)
- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966)
- Not by Its Cover (1968)
- Return Match (1967)
- Faith of Our Fathers (1967)
- The Story to End All Stories (1968)
- The Electric Ant (1969)
- Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked (1987)
- A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (1974)
- The Pre-Persons (1974)
- The Eye of the Sibyl (1987)
- The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree (1987)
- The Exit Door Leads In (1979)
- Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980)
- Strange Memories of Death (1984)
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, also titled Frozen Journey)
- Rautavaara's Case (1980)
- The Alien Mind (1981)

Other editions of this volume are titled:
- The Little Black Box
- We can remember it for you wholesale
- The Eye of the Sibyl

Editions published by Citadel don't include the story "We can remember it for you wholesale" into Vol. 5, it was placed in their Vol. 2 instead. Apart from that, contents are the same across editions.]]> 395 Philip K. Dick 057504845X Bill 0 3.66 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Little Black Box
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]]> <![CDATA[Woman: The American History of an Idea]]> 58616822 A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

What does it mean to be a “woman� in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.

This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of “woman� has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.]]> 600 Lillian Faderman 030024990X Bill 0 4.37 2022 Woman: The American History of an Idea
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]]> <![CDATA[Gods, Goddesses & Myths of Creation: A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions]]> 778583 This book is made up of the first two chapters (Part 1) of his From Primitives to Zen: A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions (1967).
In his typical fashion, Eliade here has created a well organized sourcebook for the study of comparative mythology & religion. The book is organized by section & includes summaries from various scholars or translations of important mythic texts. Among others, you will find here portions of the Avestas, portions of the Rig Veda & the Uppanishads, various myths of creation from around the world etc. Additionally Homeric hymns, works by Hesiod & even parts of the Koran are included.--Christopher R. Travers]]> 176 Mircea Eliade 0060621362 Bill 0 4.06 1967 Gods, Goddesses & Myths of Creation: A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions
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]]> History of England, Volume 5 3787660 European History 595 David Hume 0865970327 Bill 0 currently-reading 4.42 1754 History of England, Volume 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy]]> 1284552 Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent: "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and his most famous horror story, "The Mark of the Beast" (1890). This masterwork collection, edited by Stephen Jones (Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist) for the first time collects all of Kipling's fantastic fiction, ranging from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror.]]> 785 Rudyard Kipling 1933648783 Bill 0 currently-reading 3.88 2008 Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
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]]> The History of England 1 3874530 537 David Hume 086597022X Bill 5 What can you do once you have completed Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire but still yearn for more? Can any other history survive comparison with its deliberate opinions, its vast scope, its lofty style? Well, it took me twenty years, but I have stumbled upon an answer: you can read Hume's History of England. It ain't the same, my fellow Gibbon lovers, but it's close.

David Hume—of course--is not identical to Edward Gibbon. Hume's sentences, not nearly so stately, possess a sharpness all their own. Whereas Gibbon's prose moves more slowly, taking the longer view, like a man walking uphill who observes extensive ruins from increasingly greater heights, Hume's prose moves quickly, like a well-breathed horse, covering many miles of challenging terrain with apparent effortlessness. Whereas Gibbon displays man's follies and vices, leading us to the peace of philosophical resignation, Hume anatomizes the oppressions of the state that precipitate those follies and vices, and by so doing instils in us a renewed passion for liberty, the benefactor of mankind.

But the two historians share much as well. Both abhor superstition, particularly when it is united to policy, and are equally forceful in their denunciations of political leaders who—seduced by private desires or a lust for public power—derange the operations of the state.

This volume is the first chronologically considered, but the last to be published. (It was issued in 1761, a full fifteen years before the first volume of Gibbon.) It covers the period from the initial conquest of Julius Caesar, through the long reign of the Conquerer and the fitful careers of his immediate successors, and ends with the accession of Henry II.

Hume—ever on the lookout for the heroes and villains of liberty—finds one hero to praise and one villain to condemn. The hero is Alfred the Great, whose unification of England halted the debilitating custom of continual war and minimized the predations of the petty kings and thanes, thus bringing new stability to the yeoman of England. The villain is William the Conqueror, who systematically deprived the Anglo-Saxons of self-governance and damaged their self-respect as he elevated his fellow Norman invaders to a nobility divorced from its country's traditions, a nobility which acknowledged few legitimate restraints.

To conclude: fellow lovers of Edward Gibbon, I urge you to give David Hume a try. If you find Hume a slight bit inferior to Gibbon, remember: Hume did it first.]]> 4.36 1754 The History of England 1
author: David Hume
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average rating: 4.36
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What can you do once you have completed Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire but still yearn for more? Can any other history survive comparison with its deliberate opinions, its vast scope, its lofty style? Well, it took me twenty years, but I have stumbled upon an answer: you can read Hume's History of England. It ain't the same, my fellow Gibbon lovers, but it's close.

David Hume—of course--is not identical to Edward Gibbon. Hume's sentences, not nearly so stately, possess a sharpness all their own. Whereas Gibbon's prose moves more slowly, taking the longer view, like a man walking uphill who observes extensive ruins from increasingly greater heights, Hume's prose moves quickly, like a well-breathed horse, covering many miles of challenging terrain with apparent effortlessness. Whereas Gibbon displays man's follies and vices, leading us to the peace of philosophical resignation, Hume anatomizes the oppressions of the state that precipitate those follies and vices, and by so doing instils in us a renewed passion for liberty, the benefactor of mankind.

But the two historians share much as well. Both abhor superstition, particularly when it is united to policy, and are equally forceful in their denunciations of political leaders who—seduced by private desires or a lust for public power—derange the operations of the state.

This volume is the first chronologically considered, but the last to be published. (It was issued in 1761, a full fifteen years before the first volume of Gibbon.) It covers the period from the initial conquest of Julius Caesar, through the long reign of the Conquerer and the fitful careers of his immediate successors, and ends with the accession of Henry II.

Hume—ever on the lookout for the heroes and villains of liberty—finds one hero to praise and one villain to condemn. The hero is Alfred the Great, whose unification of England halted the debilitating custom of continual war and minimized the predations of the petty kings and thanes, thus bringing new stability to the yeoman of England. The villain is William the Conqueror, who systematically deprived the Anglo-Saxons of self-governance and damaged their self-respect as he elevated his fellow Norman invaders to a nobility divorced from its country's traditions, a nobility which acknowledged few legitimate restraints.

To conclude: fellow lovers of Edward Gibbon, I urge you to give David Hume a try. If you find Hume a slight bit inferior to Gibbon, remember: Hume did it first.
]]> <![CDATA[The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972, Volume One]]> 20743264 845 pages 845 William Manchester Bill 0 currently-reading 4.40 The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972, Volume One
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]]> Winning Chess Traps 1128521
The book does not have page numbers. Each of the 306 traps discussed is on a separate page.]]> 306 Irving Chernev 0679140379 Bill 0 currently-reading 3.00 1957 Winning Chess Traps
author: Irving Chernev
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average rating: 3.00
book published: 1957
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]]> <![CDATA[America's Chess Heritage:From Benjamin Franklin to Bobby Fischer-and Beyond]]> 1867224 302 Walter Korn 0679132007 Bill 0 currently-reading, chess 3.40 1987 America's Chess Heritage:From Benjamin Franklin to Bobby Fischer-and Beyond
author: Walter Korn
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average rating: 3.40
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides]]> 9820940 400 James Boswell 1171923791 Bill 0 currently-reading 3.85 1785 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
author: James Boswell
name: Bill
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1785
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]]> New Arabian Nights 3047231 284 Robert Louis Stevenson 1406582182 Bill 0 currently-reading 3.82 1882 New Arabian Nights
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1882
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]]> Nature 6909625 118 Ralph Waldo Emerson 0141036826 Bill 0 3.45 1836 Nature
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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average rating: 3.45
book published: 1836
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]]> <![CDATA[Christian socialism: An informal history]]> 956920 John C. Cort 0883446014 Bill 4 4.36 1988 Christian socialism: An informal history
author: John C. Cort
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average rating: 4.36
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> Dreamland 25459085 320 Newton Thornburg 1626817472 Bill 0 currently-reading 3.97 1983 Dreamland
author: Newton Thornburg
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1983
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]]> Black Angus 25606801
Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritances on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn't turned out the way he'd hoped, and he's now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can't survive, and so Blanchard agrees to a desperate scheme to sell the cattle before their illness is widely known. But when a faked cattle rustling and an insurance scam go wrong, the plan begins to crumble from the inside out.]]> 243 Newton Thornburg Bill 0 currently-reading 4.33 1978 Black Angus
author: Newton Thornburg
name: Bill
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1978
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]]> Surviving Autocracy 50695164 A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for signs of autocracy--and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its emergence to Americans. This incisive book provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Gessen not only highlights the corrosion of the media, the judiciary, and the cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years have changed us, from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages but also a beacon to recovery--or to enduring, and resisting, an ongoing assault.]]> 288 Masha Gessen 0593188934 Bill 0 4.15 2020 Surviving Autocracy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters]]> 26720949 As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education. The product of these interrelated trends, Nichols argues, is a pervasive distrust of expertise among the public coinciding with an unfounded belief among non-experts that their opinions should have equal standing with those of the experts. The experts are not always right, of course, and Nichols discusses expert failure. The crucial point is that bad decisions by experts can and have been effectively challenged by other well-informed experts. The issue now is that the democratization of information dissemination has created an army of ill-informed citizens who denounce expertise.

When challenged, non-experts resort to the false argument that the experts are often wrong. Though it may be true, but the solution is not to jettison expertise as an ideal; it is to improve our expertise. Nichols is certainly not opposed to information democratization, but rather the enlightenment people believe they achieve after superficial internet research. He shows in vivid detail the ways in which this impulse is coursing through our culture and body politic, but the larger goal is to explain the benefits that expertise and rigorous learning regimes bestow upon all societies.]]> 272 Thomas M. Nichols 0190469412 Bill 0 3.76 2017 The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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]]> <![CDATA[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1]]> 908751 This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire --with Gibbon's notes--is edited with a general introduction and index by Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin.  The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
The first volume contains chapters one through twenty-six of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .]]> 928 Edward Gibbon 0679601481 Bill 5 currently-reading 4.42 1776 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1
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average rating: 4.42
book published: 1776
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]]> The Scarlet Letter 1144034 320 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1593080123 Bill 0 3.41 1850 The Scarlet Letter
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average rating: 3.41
book published: 1850
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]]> <![CDATA[Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)]]> 137763
"There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review . With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.]]> 1056 Phyllis Fraser Bill 0 4.34 1944 Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)
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average rating: 4.34
book published: 1944
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]]> Dead Souls 224155 402 Nikolai Gogol 0679776443 Bill 0 3.94 1842 Dead Souls
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Kilkenny: In Times of Revolution, 1900-1923]]> 41035593
Kilkenny has been overlooked in accounts of this period, and this book rectifies that neglect with superb use of previously unseen archival material: aimed at both the general reader and anyone with an interest in Kilkenny and the Irish Revolution, the main personalities and events in the broader national context are illuminated by the key events and personalities of the county.

All major battles and altercations are impartially examined, along with the record of Kilkenny fatalities during the War of Independence, listing for the first time all those from Kilkenny - combatants and civilians - killed during the Truce and the Civil War, revealing an even more deadly conflict than anyone has previously believed.]]> 350 Eoin Swithin Walsh 1785371975 Bill 0 4.60 2018 Kilkenny: In Times of Revolution, 1900-1923
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average rating: 4.60
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]]> New Hampshire 1637820 New Hampshire is a volume of poems written by Robert Frost, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. The titular poem is the longest, and it has cross-references to 14 of the following poems. These are the "Notes" in the book title. The "Grace Notes" are the 30 final poems. Contained in this collection are some of Frost's best known works, such as "Fire and Ice", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".]]> 120 Robert Frost Bill 0 4.00 1923 New Hampshire
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book published: 1923
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report]]> 156724 Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.

This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964.

"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus

"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post

"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal

Volume 4/5. Includes stories from 1954-1964:
- Autofac (1955)
- Service Call (1955)
- Captive Market (1955)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- The Minority Report (1956)
- Recall Mechanism (1959)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- Explorers We (1959)
- War Game (1959)
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
- Novelty Act (1964)
- Waterspider (1964)
- What the Dead Men Say (1964)
- Orpheus with Clay Feet (1987)
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
- Stand-By (1963)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)

Other editions of this volume have the same stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Days of Perky Pat,
- The Minority Report,
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories.

]]> 396 Philip K. Dick 0806512768 Bill 0 4.22 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880]]> 20839384 Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.]]> 623 W.E.B. Du Bois 0199385653 Bill 0 4.43 1935 Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
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average rating: 4.43
book published: 1935
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]]> Go Tell It on the Mountain 18248426
Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, " Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."]]> 240 James Baldwin 0375701877 Bill 0 4.10 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain
author: James Baldwin
name: Bill
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1953
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