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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewelled masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, and like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression wer ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppre ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
National Bestseller One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year In 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 slav ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and no ...Show more
A Toni Morrison Treasury - The Big Box; the Ant or the Grasshopper?; the Lion or the Mouse?; Poppy or the Snake?; Peeny Butter Fudge; the Tortoise or the Hare; Little Cloud and Lady Wind; Please, Louise by Toni Morrison; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by); Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by); Slade Morrison; Joe Cepeda (Illustrator); Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator); Giselle Potter (Illustrator); Sean Qualls (Illustrator); Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)
Category: Kindergarten
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's books, cowritten with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first time in this beautiful keepsake treasury with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey! The three Who's Got Game books slyly ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Category: Classic Fiction
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
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 born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held c ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gho ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many ...Show more