A Lesson Before Dying - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Lesson Before Dying write by Ernest J. Gaines. This book was released on 2004-01-20. A Lesson Before Dying available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman write by Ernest J. Gaines. This book was released on 2012-10-24. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.
A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gathering of Old Men write by Ernest J. Gaines. This book was released on 2012-10-31. A Gathering of Old Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
Catherine Carmier
Catherine Carmier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catherine Carmier write by Ernest J. Gaines. This book was released on 1993-03-31. Catherine Carmier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and confrontations which are complex, tortuous, and universal in their implications.
Of Love and Dust
Of Love and Dust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Love and Dust write by Ernest J. Gaines. This book was released on 2012-10-24. Of Love and Dust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, BonBon's mistress Pauline, and BonBon's wife Louise.
