Twelve Years a Slave (Penguin Classics)

Twelve Years a Slave (Penguin Classics)

Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starringÂ Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, andÂ Lupita Nyongâ€™o, and directed by Steve McQueen

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives,Â Twelve Years a SlaveÂ is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

After his rescue, Northup published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave.

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 34553416
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-07-31
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780143106708

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	34553416
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-07-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780143106708

Twelve Years a Slave (Penguin Classics)

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