The Portable Frederick Douglass (Penguin Classics)

The Portable Frederick Douglass (Penguin Classics)

A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
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This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prizeâ€“nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includes the full range of Douglassâ€™s works: the complete Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction; the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era; and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for womenâ€™s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Lâ€™Ouverture.
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The Portable Frederick Douglass is the latest addition in a series of African American classics curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2008, the series reflects a selection of great works ofÂ fiction,Â nonfiction, andÂ poetryÂ by African and African American authors introduced and annotated by leading scholars and acclaimed writers in new or updated editions for Penguin Classics. In his series essay, â€œWhat Is an African American Classic?â€ Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. Gates writes, â€œThese texts reveal the human universal through the African American particular: all true art, all classics do this; this is what â€˜artâ€™ is, a revelation of that which makes each of us sublimely human, rendered in the minute details of the actions and thoughts and feelings of a compelling character embedded in a time and place.â€
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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780143106814
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2016-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143106814

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780143106814
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2016-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143106814

The Portable Frederick Douglass (Penguin Classics)

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