How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago, and unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death - to paint a portrait of insurmountable oppression. Through the strange pride Bigger takes in his crime, Wright brings us to confront the systems of justice we blindly assume are always on our side. Selected from the books Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright
Gooseberries Penguin Little Black Classics
Anton Chekhov
Penguin Ananda/Penguin Random House
The Great Winglebury Duel Penguin Little Black Classics
Charles Dickens
The Maldive Shark Penguin Little Black Classics
Herman Melville
The Terrors Of The Night Penguin Little Black Classics
Thomas Nashe
The Old Nurs's Story Penguin Little Black Classics
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Steel Flea Penguin Little Black Classics
Nikolay Leskov
A Simple Heart Penguin Little Black Classics
Gustave Flaubert
Lord Arthur Saviles Crime Penguin Little Black Classics
Oscar Wilde
Mrs Rosie And The Priest Penguin Little Black Classics
Giovanni Boccaccio
Jason And Medea Penguin Little Black Classics
E.V. Rieu
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