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Home to Harlem

A Harlem Renaissance Novel of Black Urban Life, Migration, Labor, Desire, and Jazz Age New York

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Published in 1928, Claude McKay's Home to Harlem follows Jake Brown, a Black soldier who deserts the First World War and returns to the Harlem of migration, nightlife, labor, sexuality, and political ferment. Moving between Harlem's crowded streets and the rural South, the novel examines the divided meanings of home, freedom, and racial identity. Its vigorous prose combines lyrical description ... Read more

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Published in 1928, Claude McKay's Home to Harlem follows Jake Brown, a Black soldier who deserts the First World War and returns to the Harlem of migration, nightlife, labor, sexuality, and political ferment. Moving between Harlem's crowded streets and the rural South, the novel examines the divided meanings of home, freedom, and racial identity. Its vigorous prose combines lyrical description
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Harlem Shadows

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First published in 1922, Harlem Shadows is the groundbreaking poetry collection by Claude McKay that helped ignite the Harlem Renaissance. In these poems, McKay confronts the realities of race, poverty, and injustice in America while also celebrating the vitality, resilience, and artistry of Black life. Blending the elegance of traditional sonnets with the urgency of modern themes, McKay’s verses ... Read more

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First published in 1922, Harlem Shadows is the groundbreaking poetry collection by Claude McKay that helped ignite the Harlem Renaissance. In these poems, McKay confronts the realities of race, poverty, and injustice in America while also celebrating the vitality, resilience, and artistry of Black life. Blending the elegance of traditional sonnets with the urgency of modern themes, McKay’s verses
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Home to Harlem

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**Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classic**Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and ... Read more

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**Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classic**Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and
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Home To Harlem

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Home to Harlem , the first published novel by the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay , follows the life of Jake, an African-American longshoreman who enlists with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I before deserting and returning to Harlem. Upon his return, Jake indulges in all of the sensual pleasures Harlem has to offer, including a series of sexual entanglements. Owing to ... Read more

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Home to Harlem , the first published novel by the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay , follows the life of Jake, an African-American longshoreman who enlists with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I before deserting and returning to Harlem. Upon his return, Jake indulges in all of the sensual pleasures Harlem has to offer, including a series of sexual entanglements. Owing to
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A Long Way From Home

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A Long Way from Home is a novel by Claude McKay, a Jamaican-American writer and poet. Published in 1937, the book is set in the early 20th century and follows the experiences of its protagonist, a black man named Jean-Jacques "Jake" Delaney, as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and cultural exploration. The novel begins with Jake leaving his native Jamaica to seek opportunities in the ... Read more

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A Long Way from Home is a novel by Claude McKay, a Jamaican-American writer and poet. Published in 1937, the book is set in the early 20th century and follows the experiences of its protagonist, a black man named Jean-Jacques "Jake" Delaney, as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and cultural exploration. The novel begins with Jake leaving his native Jamaica to seek opportunities in the
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Banjo

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Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay's semi-autobiographical novel about Black former dockworkers living in France, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.On the waterfronts of 1920s Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known as “Banjo,” and his group of fellow unemployed Black seamen navigate daily lives filled with joy and camaraderie: playing music in local cafés ... Read more

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Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay's semi-autobiographical novel about Black former dockworkers living in France, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.On the waterfronts of 1920s Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known as “Banjo,” and his group of fellow unemployed Black seamen navigate daily lives filled with joy and camaraderie: playing music in local cafés
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Home to Harlem

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First published in 1928 in the US, now public domain. 'Why did I want to mix myself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'. When Jake Brown joined the World War I effort, he was treated more like a slave than a soldier. After briefly defecting to France to escape the racial violence he was facing, Jake travelled back home to Harlem. But despite the distance he ... Read more

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First published in 1928 in the US, now public domain. 'Why did I want to mix myself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'. When Jake Brown joined the World War I effort, he was treated more like a slave than a soldier. After briefly defecting to France to escape the racial violence he was facing, Jake travelled back home to Harlem. But despite the distance he
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Home to Harlem

by Claude McKay ...

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From a key voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay’s classic novel about the vibrant but perilous world of Jazz Age Harlem, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.Back in Harlem after fleeing the horrors of World War I, Jake has left his past behind—only to find himself drawn into the city’s seductive Jazz Age underworld. He navigates the bustling nightclubs ... Read more

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From a key voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay’s classic novel about the vibrant but perilous world of Jazz Age Harlem, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.Back in Harlem after fleeing the horrors of World War I, Jake has left his past behind—only to find himself drawn into the city’s seductive Jazz Age underworld. He navigates the bustling nightclubs
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Banjo

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**Claude McKay’s picaresque of 1920s Marseille, a paean to Black diasporaA Penguin Classic**On the shores of the Vieux Port of Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, better known as “Banjo,” panhandles alongside friends and fellow migrants, busking at bars and escaping drunken scrums, in search of money, wine, camaraderie, and a good time. As Banjo and the “beach boys” drift through the dives of “The ... Read more

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**Claude McKay’s picaresque of 1920s Marseille, a paean to Black diasporaA Penguin Classic**On the shores of the Vieux Port of Marseille, Lincoln Agrippa Daily, better known as “Banjo,” panhandles alongside friends and fellow migrants, busking at bars and escaping drunken scrums, in search of money, wine, camaraderie, and a good time. As Banjo and the “beach boys” drift through the dives of “The
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Romance in Marseille

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**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice/Staff PickVulture's Ten Best Books of 2020 pick**Buried in the archive for almost ninety ... Read more

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**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice/Staff PickVulture's Ten Best Books of 2020 pick**Buried in the archive for almost ninety
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Home to Harlem

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Revisit the debut novel of one of the “New Negroes” of the Harlem Renaissance filled with Niggerati sensibilities.Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown heads to Harlem—the Mecca of Black creativity—to rebuild his life anew. Upon arriving, he discovers that Harlem isn’t exactly the paradise of racial uplift and unity that one might read about in books; but then ... Read more

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Revisit the debut novel of one of the “New Negroes” of the Harlem Renaissance filled with Niggerati sensibilities.Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown heads to Harlem—the Mecca of Black creativity—to rebuild his life anew. Upon arriving, he discovers that Harlem isn’t exactly the paradise of racial uplift and unity that one might read about in books; but then
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Spring in New Hampshire

by Claude McKay ...

Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: (To J. L. J. F. E) Too green the ... Read more

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Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: (To J. L. J. F. E) Too green the
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