The Known World American Classics Edition - A Novel

In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who is now a slave owner in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law; Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones weaves a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. ''A masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon.''-Time Freshman Common Read: Kalamazoo College

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Edward P Jones, Edward P. Jones
• Verlag: Amistad
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 08.04.2026
• EAN: 9780063482296
• ISBN: 978-0-06-348229-6
• Seiten: 400
• Serie: HarperCollins American Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945); Short Stories, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Plays, Playscripts, US South, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FICTION, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: Magical Realism, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERATURE, SOCIOLOGY: ETHNIC STUDIES, FICTION: Southern, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / African American & Black, DRAMA: American / African American & Black, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Classic fiction: general and literary, First Year Experience / Fiction, African American Studies / Literature, Sociology / Ethnic Studies