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Books by Toni Morrison
  | | Beloved(Reprint) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 321 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3341-6, ISBN: 1-4000-3341-1 "New York Times BestsellerStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of h ..." |
 | | Home(Reprint) (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74091-5, ISBN: 0-307-74091-9 "A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis DispatchWhen Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger.Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black ..." |
 | | The Bluest Eye(Reprint) (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27844-9, ISBN: 0-307-27844-1 "Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her ..." |
 | | Song of Solomon(Reprint) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3342-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3342-X "New York Times BestsellerMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison ..." |
 | | Sula(Reprint) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3343-0, ISBN: 1-4000-3343-8 "In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s. As ..." |
 | | Jazz(Reprint) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7621-5, ISBN: 1-4000-7621-8 "Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness. Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners ..." |
 | | The Source of Self-Regard(Reprint) Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2020 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56279-5, ISBN: 0-525-56279-6 "Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, ..." |
 | | Home(1st Edition) by Toni Morrison Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59416-7, ISBN: 0-307-59416-5 "America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physica ..." |
 | | A Mercy(Reprint) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27676-6, ISBN: 0-307-27676-7 "National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearIn the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might b ..." |
 | | Love(Reprint) A Novel by Toni Morrison Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7847-9, ISBN: 1-4000-7847-4 "The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introduction to a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of the ocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort. Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--Bill Cosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generations of characters living in the seaside community. One clear truth here, told time and again, is how folks love a ..." |
 | | Beloved(Reprint) (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-452-26446-5, ISBN: 0-452-26446-4 "In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved. A dead child, a runaway sla ..." |
 | | Playing in the Dark(Reprint) Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1993 by Vintage Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74542-6, ISBN: 0-679-74542-4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close ..." |
 | | Recitatif A Story (Hardcover) by Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2022 by Alfred A. Knopf, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31503-3, ISBN: 0-593-31503-0 "" --Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four ..." |
 | | Paradise(Reprint) (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-6988-2, ISBN: 0-8041-6988-8 " Dieser Titel ist in englischer Sprache. "Zuerst erschießen sie das weiße Mädchen. Mit dem Rest können sie sich Zeit lassen. Sie sind siebzehn Meilen vom nächsten Ort entfernt, welcher wiederum neunzig Meilen von jedem anderen Ort entfernt ist. Verstecke wird es im Kloster zur Genüge geben, aber es ist genug Zeit, und der Tag hat erst begonnen." So beginnt Paradise, der erste Roman von Toni Morrison, seit sie 1993 den Nobelpreis für Lit ..." |
 | | Goodness and the Literary Imagination Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision by Toni Morrison, David Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, Mara Willard Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4362-6, ISBN: 0-8139-4362-0 "What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form.Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ah ..." |
 | | Beloved(Updated) by Toni Morrison, Vintage Books Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-976011-5, ISBN: 0-09-976011-8 "In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved. A dead child, a runaway sla ..." |
 | | Playing in the Dark(1st Edition) Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison Hardcover, 91 Pages, Published 1992 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-67377-9, ISBN: 0-674-67377-8 " Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close ..." |
 | | Song of Solomon(Reprint) (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison, Theodore Morrison, "Carol" And "Tim" Paperback, 337 Pages, Published 1987 by Plume Books ISBN-13: 978-0-452-26011-5, ISBN: 0-452-26011-6 "NATIONAL BESTSELLER. BOOK NUMBER: Z6011. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the author of five other novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Jazz. Song of Solomon won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. The winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, she is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton Univ ..." |
 | | James Baldwin Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America) by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison Hardcover, 869 Pages, Published 1998 by Library Of America ISBN-13: 978-1-883011-52-9, ISBN: 1-883011-52-3 "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 th ..." |
 | | Beloved Special Edition by Toni Morrison Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf Deckle Edge, Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65927-3, ISBN: 0-525-65927-7 "Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “I can’t imagine American literature without it.” Nearly two decades later, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years.Toni Morrison’s magnificent Pulitzer Prize–winning work—first published in 1987—brought the wrenching experience of slavery into the literature of our time, enlarging our comprehension of A ..." |
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