Collection: Classics

In these fifteen superb stories, this essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy...

A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the...

Available together for the first time in one specially designed boxed set, ten repackaged paperback editions of Zora Neale Hurston’s classic works—each featuring a striking...

Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker's iconic modern classic, now in a beautiful 40th anniversary Penguin Vitae edition with...

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.This Signet Classics...

This award-winning poetry collection includes sixteen poems that tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life seen through the eyes of a child,...

The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authorWith a new foreword by Rebecca Walker When...

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an...

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty...

A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart...

"Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role." --Library Journal This classic work, first published...

  Mules & Men is a treasury of Black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story...

The National Book Award-winning novel--and contemporary classic--that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor "[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of...

A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her...

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she...

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking...

"...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as...

The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5...

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted...

A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked...