“Thus, the club was raised, the blood came down, and his bitterness, his anguish, and his guilt were repeated.” Based on Baldwin's experiences of prejudice in a violently divided America by race, these hot essays - The Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket, and The Guilt of the White Man - combine the intensely personal with the political to imagine a better world.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, each offering a distilled taste of their modern, international character. The authors range from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanisław Lem, and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays that are radical and inspiring; poems that are moving and chilling; stories that are surreal and fantastical; taking us from the Deep South to contemporary Japan, from the underground scene of New York to the farthest corners of space.

Pages: 64, Dimensions: 11.2x11.2cm