Can I read Native Son Richard Wright on EtoBox?

Native Son Richard Wright by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated, Richard Wright is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Native Son Richard Wright about?

Amazon.com Review Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet... A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before,

Who reads Native Son Richard Wright?

Author

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated, Richard Wright

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780848825775

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (562 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13