The Portable Frederick Douglass
Author: Douglass, Frederick
ISBN: 9780143106814
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Jul 2016
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;BPgt;A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderPlt;/BPgt;
Plt;bPgt;A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;bPgt;P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; 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 PrizeP#8211;nominated historian John Stauffer, Plt;iPgt;The Portable Frederick Douglass Plt;/iPgt;includes the full range of DouglassP#8217;s works: the complete Plt;iPgt;Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassPlt;/iPgt;, as well as extracts from Plt;iPgt;My Bondage and MyPlt;/iPgt; Plt;iPgt;FreedomPlt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Life and Times of Frederick DouglassPlt;/iPgt;; Plt;iPgt;The Heroic SlavePlt;/iPgt;, 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 womenP#8217;s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint LP#8217;Ouverture. Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Portable Frederick Douglass Plt;/iPgt;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 ofP#160;fiction,P#160;nonfiction, andP#160;poetryP#160;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, P#8220;What Is an African American Classic?P#8221; Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. Gates writes, P#8220;These texts reveal the human universal through the African American particular: all true art, all classics do this; this is what P#8216;artP#8217; 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.P#8221;Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700P#160;titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theP#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateP#160;translations by award-winning translators.
ISBN: 9780143106814
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Jul 2016
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;BPgt;A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderPlt;/BPgt;
Plt;bPgt;A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;bPgt;P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt; 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 PrizeP#8211;nominated historian John Stauffer, Plt;iPgt;The Portable Frederick Douglass Plt;/iPgt;includes the full range of DouglassP#8217;s works: the complete Plt;iPgt;Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassPlt;/iPgt;, as well as extracts from Plt;iPgt;My Bondage and MyPlt;/iPgt; Plt;iPgt;FreedomPlt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Life and Times of Frederick DouglassPlt;/iPgt;; Plt;iPgt;The Heroic SlavePlt;/iPgt;, 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 womenP#8217;s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint LP#8217;Ouverture. Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;The Portable Frederick Douglass Plt;/iPgt;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 ofP#160;fiction,P#160;nonfiction, andP#160;poetryP#160;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, P#8220;What Is an African American Classic?P#8221; Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. Gates writes, P#8220;These texts reveal the human universal through the African American particular: all true art, all classics do this; this is what P#8216;artP#8217; 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.P#8221;Plt;brPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt; For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700P#160;titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theP#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateP#160;translations by award-winning translators.
