HA JIN is a professor of English at Boston University. His books include A Good Fall, A Free Life, and War Trash. He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has also received such honors as the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, and PEN/Hemingway Award.
57 Ebooks by Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson: General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &C. To Which Is Added
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Lieutenants, t …
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€12.52
Hilary Jenkinson & Charles Johnson: English Court Hand, A. D. 1066 to 1500
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€11.34
Charles Johnson & Charles Whitehead: Lives and Exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers
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€12.60
Barbara Shoup & Margaret-Love Denman: Novel Ideas
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by whic …
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€23.99
Stephen K. George: Ethics, Literature, and Theory
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relation …
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€63.07
Charles Johnson: Fact or Fiction
Whether you believe that man evolved from the apes (Darwinism) or that man was created in God’s own image (religion), man has questioned the whats and whys of his surroundings. Why does the sun rise …
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€4.49
Emily McRae & George Yancy: Buddhism and Whiteness
The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy in order …
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€46.28
Tapan Basu & Tasneem Shahnaaz: Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essay …
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€186.95
Sacred Fire
‘QBR’s evolving canon is a splendid way to begin honoring black artists.’ -Charles Johnson, from the Foreword ‘From critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America to Alex Haley’s Roo …
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€15.99
Charles Johnson: Soulcatcher
Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For …
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€12.85
Charles Johnson: Faith and the Good Thing
Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim’s progress that takes …
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€14.07
Charles Johnson: Oxherding Tale
From National Book Awardwinning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part mythfirst published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries …
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€12.90
Charles Johnson: Proverbs
Drawn from the wisdom of ancient oral tradition, this book contains two main doctrines: teaching the attainment of wisdom, and warning against life”s pitfalls, from excessive drink to promiscuity. T …
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€1.27
Charles Johnson & Denise Webster: Recrafting a Life
Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive …
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€37.40
Charles Johnson & Denise Webster: Recrafting a Life
Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive …
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€37.14
Charles Johnson: Dr. King’s Refrigerator
From National Book Awardwinning author Charles Johnson comes a sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories exploring issues of race and identity.In ‘;Sweet Dreams, ‘ a Kafkaesque tale is s …
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€10.55
Charles Johnson: Middle Passage
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dickheroic in proportionfiction that hooks the min …
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€17.60
Charles Johnson: Dreamer
From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history.Set against the tensions of Civil …
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€14.07
Charles Johnson: Turning the Wheel
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I’m convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successful …
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€14.07
Charles Johnson: Being and Race
For the first time in ebook, renowned scholar Charles Johnson’s exploration of contemporary black literature and the meaning of the black experience as expressed through the writers Richard Wright, J …
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€14.07
Charles Johnson: Way of the Writer
From Charles Johnsona National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and racecomes an instructive, inspiring guide …
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€14.07
Charles Johnson: Night Hawks
From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, ‘;the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayistcomes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread’ (The New Yo …
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€14.07
Yuval Taylor: I Was Born a Slave
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects …
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€33.37
Charles Johnson: Dreamer
Martin Luther King Jr is a political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr. Chaym Smith is his dark mirror, a violent, cynical criminal with a mind and talent to mimic King’s …
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€11.31
H. A. Cronne & Charles Johnson: Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154
The first volume of this work was published in 1913, and the editors then believed that the second and third volumes would follow in quick succession. But the four years of war, which so soon followe …
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€12.68
Charles Johnson: Desron 3
It’s 1943, and the second world war has only just started. The Imperial Japanese Navy appears to be invincible, destroying everything they face. The ABDA, (American, British, Dutch and Australian) fl …
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€3.99
Jan Willis: Dharma Matters
A powerful collection of essays on race and gender in contemporary Buddhist practice by one of the leading thinkers in the area.Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan t …
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€21.12
Charles Johnson & Robert Louis Stevenson: Deadly Sails – Complete Collection
e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of sea adventure novels and true stories of the most notorious pirates. History of Pirates of the Caribbean: Contents: The King of Pirates: Of Captain …
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€1.49
Robert Louis Stevenson & Jack London: The Reign of the Black Flag
e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of pirate tales, sea adventure novels and true stories of the most notorious pirates: True Pirates of the Caribbean: The King of Pirates: Of Captain Av …
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€1.99
Charles Johnson & Daniel Defoe: A General History of the Pyrates (Annotated)
Read the classic that started the pirate genre. The definitive edition
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