Eight Men: Short Stories"Wright's unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart," said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again. "Eight Men" presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America." |
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... manhole cover . The columns stopped ab- ruptly , as though the perforations had become clogged ; a gray spout of sewer water jutted up from underground and lifted the circular metal cover , juggled it for a moment , then let it fall ...
... manhole cover . The columns stopped ab- ruptly , as though the perforations had become clogged ; a gray spout of sewer water jutted up from underground and lifted the circular metal cover , juggled it for a moment , then let it fall ...
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... manhole , half expecting the cover to leap up again . He went to the center of the street and stooped and peered into the hole , but could see nothing . Water rustled in the black depths . He started with terror ; the siren sounded so ...
... manhole , half expecting the cover to leap up again . He went to the center of the street and stooped and peered into the hole , but could see nothing . Water rustled in the black depths . He started with terror ; the siren sounded so ...
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... cover clanged into place , muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world . Knee - deep in the pulsing current , he breathed with aching chest , filling his lungs with the hot stench of yeasty rot . From the perforations of the manhole ...
... cover clanged into place , muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world . Knee - deep in the pulsing current , he breathed with aching chest , filling his lungs with the hot stench of yeasty rot . From the perforations of the manhole ...
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... sewer from smaller conduits . The match died ; he struck another and saw a mass of debris sweep past him and clog the ... manhole cover ; the down - curve had become temporarily obstructed and the perforations had become clogged . He was ...
... sewer from smaller conduits . The match died ; he struck another and saw a mass of debris sweep past him and clog the ... manhole cover ; the down - curve had become temporarily obstructed and the perforations had become clogged . He was ...
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Short Stories Richard Wright. light of another manhole cover he saw , amid loose wet brick , a hole with walls of damp earth leading into blackness . Gin- gerly he poked the pole into it ; it was hollow and went beyond the length of the ...
Short Stories Richard Wright. light of another manhole cover he saw , amid loose wet brick , a hole with walls of damp earth leading into blackness . Gin- gerly he poked the pole into it ; it was hollow and went beyond the length of the ...
Contents
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BIG BLACK GOOD MAN | 85 |
THE MAN WHO SAW THE FLOOD | 102 |
MAN GOD AINT LIKE THAT | 155 |
THE MAN WHO KILLED A SHADOW | 185 |
THE MAN WHO WENT TO CHICAGO | 202 |
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