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  • Clara Callan

    A Novel

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Richard B. Wright’s celebrated novel is the powerful and moving story of two small-town sisters and their life-changing experiences on the eve of the Second World War. Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Adultery

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Richard Wright’s bestselling follow-up to Clara Callan is a quietly brilliant story of infidelity and forgivenessDaniel Fielding has it all: a charming wife and daughter, the respect of his co-workers, a nice house in a desirable neighbourhood. What, then, drives him to succumb to the charms of a pretty, young colleague at an overseas book fair? When a passionate indiscretion explodes into ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Life with Words

    A Writer's Memoir

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    From the acclaimed writer of the beloved Clara Callan comes a beautifully crafted, charming portrait of the writing life. Combining his characteristic wit and self-deprecation with his extraordinary imagination and insight, Richard B. Wright has created a deeply affecting memoir that reads like a novel.As a small, watchful boy growing up in a working class family in Midland, Ontario, during the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Native Son

    by Richard Wright ...
    Native Son is a third person narrative that intimately revolves around an African American named Bigger Thomas in the 1930's. He lives in poverty with his family and is a delinquent. To aggravate his poor life even more, Bigger also lives in a racist society where white people despise black people.One day, Bigger is admitted for a job, which is to be the chauffeur of the Dalton Family, a rich and ... Read more

    $2.29 CAD

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  • Black Boy (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Jim Crow South Memoir of Hunger, Racial Terror, Self-Education, and the Making of a Writer

    by Richard Wright, June Umberley ...
    Richard Wright's Black Boy is a searing autobiographical narrative of childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow South, tracing the formation of a fiercely questioning intelligence amid poverty, racial terror, hunger, and religious repression. Written in a spare yet intensely lyrical prose, the book fuses memoir, social testimony, and Künstlerroman, showing how language becomes both refuge and ... Read more

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  • Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    In a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels that she must now confess the great secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwright.With a brilliant eye and ear for this rich period of history, Richard B. Wright brings to life the teeming streets of Elizabethan London and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Black Boy

    by Richard Wright ...
    In "Black Boy," Richard Wright compellingly chronicles his tumultuous journey from a childhood steeped in poverty in the Jim Crow South to a fierce assertion of self-identity and personal agency. The narrative, marked by vivid imagery and incisive social commentary, exposes the harsh realities of racial discrimination and the struggle for dignity. As a seminal work in African American literature, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Boy

    Enriched edition. A Journey of Resilience and Truth: A Deep Dive into Race, Identity, and Injustice in the Jim Crow South

    by Richard Wright, Julian Elliott ...
    In "Black Boy," Richard Wright offers a poignant and unflinching memoir of his childhood and early adulthood in the racially charged environment of the Jim Crow South. Written in a stark, evocative prose style that combines lyrical narrative with raw realism, the work captures the complexities of identity and survival under oppressive societal norms. Wright's exploration of hunger'—both physical ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]

    by Richard Wright, Malcolm Wright ...
    A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • At last I succeed

    Sophia triumph live on

    by Richard Wright ...
    Introduction:In the pages of "At Last, I Succeed," a captivating novel unfolds, weaving a tale of resilience, triumph, and the unyielding pursuit of success. Set against a backdrop of adversity and hardship, this story follows the remarkable journey of Sophia, a young woman who defies the odds and emerges as a beacon of hope in a world filled with challenges.The narrative begins with a glimmer of ... Read more

    $6.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • October

    A Novel

    by Richard B. Wright ...
    Published to rave reviews, with weeks on the bestseller lists and a place as a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, October is an extraordinary meditation on mortality and memory, from Governor General’s Award–winning author Richard B. WrightVisiting his gravely ill daughter, James Hillyer encounters by chance Gabriel Fontaine, whom he met as a boy while on holiday in Gaspé. At the time, the boys had ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Native Son (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Harlem Renaissance Novel

    by Richard Wright, June Umberley ...
    Richard Wright's Native Son is a landmark of twentieth-century American fiction, a stark naturalist novel that follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago, as poverty, segregation, fear, and violence converge into catastrophe. Written in a hard, unsentimental prose style, the novel exposes the psychological consequences of racial oppression while drawing on social realism, crime ... Read more

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