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Dark Days (Penguin Modern) Paperback – Import, 22 February 2018

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'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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About the Author

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.

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Item Weight : 40 g
Paperback : 64 pages
ISBN-10 : 0241337542
ISBN-13 : 978-0241337547
Product Dimensions : 16.1 x 0.4 x 11.1 cm
Publisher : Penguin Classics (22 February 2018)
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: #44,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #94 in Political History
- #381 in Political Theory
- #505 in Essays (Books)

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Arghya Chakraborty

Baldwin and Racism in USA ~ An Eye-opener

Reviewed in India on 23 April 2019

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From the back cover ~ "Drawing on Baldwin's own experience of prejudice in an America, violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envusage a better world." Racism is still one of the worst 'inventions' by mankind. With an inflated ego, boosted by a hollow sense of 'superiority', the white people have dominated the people of colour since forever. From literature to the actual living condition, the black people have been subjected to inhuman treatment, fueled by the myth of white supremacy.

James Baldwin, a black American lived through these conditions and had experienced the harsh brutality first hand. Through the 3 essays in the book he has narrated his experience, sometimes jokingly, but never does he shy away from point out the reality of racism.

If you have faced any kind of discrimination in your life, you must read this book. Although having racism as their base, these essays can be read as the starting point of a protest against any oppression or discrimination.

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A book that will change your life

Reviewed in India on 2 February 2019

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Though set in racially divided America in the '50s and '60s, James Baldwin's account is universally and timelessly relevant, as he sees right into the deepest darkest selves of all human beings. The book simply shines light.

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It was okay(ish)

Reviewed in India on 8 May 2019

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This book includes 3 essays or anecdotes discussing racism in america

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Mac McAleer

Black America in White America

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2019

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This is a member of the Penguin Moderns series, which are true pocket-sized books. It has 50 small pages and is a book of articles written by James Baldwin. The articles give some background to Baldwin’s early years in America before he left for France. In all of these articles the position of black America in white America is central.

The three articles are: Dark Days, 18 pages, first published in Esquire in 1980; The Price of the Ticket, 22 pages, from 1985; The White Man's Guilt, 10 pages, published in Ebony in 1965. Dark Days is an overview of his youth in Harlem. The title comes from a section about a contemporary visit to The South (contemporary when it was published in 1980). There he attended a trial in Birmingham, Alabama where the defendant was not legally, but openly acquitted. It concerned the bombing of a church 22 years before. The bomber received the minimum sentence of 10 years and was freed on bail. The Price of the Ticket describes his late teens and early twenties when he moved downtown to Greenwich Village. In it he says "The Irish middle passage . . . was as foul as my own, and as dishonourable on the part of those responsible for it. But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking." The White Man's Guilt is a much earlier essay. It discusses how white America views Black America and vice versa.

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James Baldwin writes like he means it with critical observations of the harsh ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2018

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James Baldwin writes like he means it with critical observations of the harsh reality in front of him. He doesn't mean to offend but it's difficult to see how some readers wouldn't be. I guess it's truth laid bare, let loose. In these three essays Baldwin talks about a country and indeed the world in a brutally honestly poetic way. It's difficult not to feel the hurt but the honesty is plain to read.

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Lois Carr

Powerful, Enlightening, Important

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2020

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‘Dark Days’ is a little book made up of three different essays. These were all written around 1980 but they are strikingly similar to the events we are experiencing today. These essays are just another example of how systemic racism is still a huge problem, even though a lot of people like to bring up ‘how far we’ve come since then’. In reality, we’ve really only taken two steps forward and one step back. If that.

This was my first time reading Baldwin’s work and I loved it. He has a writing style and voice which just hits you to your core and it’s really powerful.

Three compelling essays on race, politics and America

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2019

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This book is a great little book by James Baldwin on race in America. His blunt, direct and unapologetic. His not trying to placate anybody when he talks about controversial issues. It is a short but great introduction to the writer and poet James Baldwin.

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sebdom

rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2019

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When a book is this size, and I was selling it....I would highlight the size so as my customers would only buy if they were happy.I feel not happy

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