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A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transf...
Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was...
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl ...
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depress...
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. More than the wealthy o...
From The Source of Self-Regard
A Vintage Shorts selection. In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writerďż˝...
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Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie a...
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl....
Conversations
Thirty years of interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and other novels...
a Novel
In clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ult...
In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salesman in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. A profound love story which depicts the sights and sounds...
and Other Conversations
“Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of th...
Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose ...
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- 1. Romancing Slavery -- 2. Being or Becoming the Stranger -- 3. The Co...
This novel surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family. It describes the black experience in America in an imaginat...
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read ...
A haunting and frightening story of a young black girl who prays every night for blue eyes because she thinks they will change her life and make it be...
"In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for ...
A Story
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize w...
A novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Ody...
Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all-Black town as four young women are brutally attac...
A beautiful black woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and contem...
Pulitzer Prize Winner
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimat...
Toni Morrison prétend être entrée en littérature par effraction. Pourtant, en 1993, elle devient la huitième femme et le premier écrivain noir a...
Selected Nonfiction
Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into...
The story of Macon Milkman Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geo...
In a lighthearted but thought-provoking way, this journal acknowledges that children experience the world differently than adults do. An adult might n...
In the afterglow of a clean triumph--her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved--Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. Th...
Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four dec...
A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison....
Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision
What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these per...
Notes on Literature and Engagement
Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and th...
Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live ...
The Art and Craft of Memoir
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjo...