--- product_id: 86618148 title: "James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)" price: "993 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/86618148-james-baldwin-collected-essays-loa-98 store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison 1000+ pages of timeless essays Preserved on acid-free paper for centuries James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) **Price:** 993 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Own the voice that shaped America’s conscience — timeless, powerful, essential. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) - **How much does it cost?** 993 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/86618148-james-baldwin-collected-essays-loa-98) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Enduring Physical Quality:** Library of America’s signature sewn bindings, cloth covers, and archival acid-free paper built to last generations. - • **Curated by Literary Royalty:** Edited by Toni Morrison, ensuring authoritative and insightful presentation. - • **Definitive Baldwin Collection:** The most comprehensive gathering of James Baldwin’s nonfiction ever published, including early and late essays. - • **Cultural & Historical Relevance:** Essays that resonate from Civil Rights Era to today’s social justice movements like Black Lives Matter. - • **Intellectual Depth & Accessibility:** Baldwin’s sharp wit and personal voice make complex social issues relatable and thought-provoking. ## Overview James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) is the definitive anthology of Baldwin’s nonfiction, edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and published by the prestigious Library of America. Spanning over 1000 pages, this volume preserves Baldwin’s incisive explorations of race, identity, and democracy on premium acid-free paper with durable sewn bindings. A must-have for anyone seeking to understand America’s cultural and political landscape through one of its most eloquent and prophetic voices. ## Description James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published.With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto," "Everybody's Protest Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Stranger in the Village." Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. "One writes," he stated, "out of one thing only—one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give." With singular eloquence and unblinking sharpness of observation he lived up to his credo: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer."The classic The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to "end the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world." The later volumes No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work (1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film criticism. A further 36 essays—nine of them previously uncollected—include some of Baldwin's earliest published writings, as well as revealing later insights into the language of Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl Hines.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Review: A great read - An excellent read , the author makes it really easy to imagine life for him and blacks in his era His writing style is very relatable, the issues he highlights are universal I'd say it's a classic Review: Buckel up! - This is ONE HECK OF A GOOD READ, but the thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. can get quite profound at times, and if you want to really enjoy the book and gain something personal from it you will almost certainly, from time to time, need to pause and then read again to fully digest some of the things he has to say. I got stuck on Baldwin after I read this! ## Features - Library of America ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #335,962 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #510 in Cultural & Ethnic Studies #1,311 in History of Civilization & Culture #1,428 in United States History (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 1,468 Reviews | ## Images ![James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61XHD0p7nlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great read *by A***Y on 29 March 2025* An excellent read , the author makes it really easy to imagine life for him and blacks in his era His writing style is very relatable, the issues he highlights are universal I'd say it's a classic ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buckel up! *by A***R on 14 February 2025* This is ONE HECK OF A GOOD READ, but the thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. can get quite profound at times, and if you want to really enjoy the book and gain something personal from it you will almost certainly, from time to time, need to pause and then read again to fully digest some of the things he has to say. I got stuck on Baldwin after I read this! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Un biijou *by A***G on 16 June 2017* Je vous recommande d'acheter les 3 tomes: ces textes sont simplement magnifiques. 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