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Beloved

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Introduction by A. S. Byatt

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize Winner

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison
Introduction by A. S. Byatt

By Toni Morrison
Introduction by A. S. Byatt

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison

By Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

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Paperback $17.00

Jun 08, 2004 | ISBN 9781400033416

Hardcover $32.00

Oct 22, 2019 | ISBN 9780525659273

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Oct 17, 2006 | ISBN 9780307264886

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Aug 12, 1987 | ISBN 9780394535975

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Jul 24, 2007 | ISBN 9780307388629

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    About Beloved

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. 

    This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

    Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 

    “A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

    About Beloved

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. 

    This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

    Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 

    “A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

    About Beloved

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

    Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

    Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.

    Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

    About Beloved

    Toni Morrison–author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby–is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination.

    It is the story–set in post-Civil War Ohio–of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.

    Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness that has settled into Baby Suggs’ "desolated center where the self that was no self made its home." And to Sethe, the past makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in memories that both haunt and soothe her…in the arrival of Paul D ("There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep"), one of her fellow slaves on the farm where she had once been kept…in the vivid and painfully cathartic stories she and Paul D tell each other of their years in captivity, of their glimpses of freedom…and, most powerfully, in the apparition of Beloved, whose eyes are expressionless at their deepest point, whose doomed childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who, as daughter, sister and seductress, has now come from the "place over there" to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her.

    Sethe’s struggle to keep Beloved from gaining full possession of her present–and to throw off the long, dark legacy of her past–is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel. But its intensity and resonance of feeling, and the boldness of its narrative, lift it beyond its particulars so that it speaks to our experience as an entire nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance.

    In Beloved, Toni Morrison has given us a great American novel.

    Toni Morrison was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for Beloved.

    About Beloved

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. 

    This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

    Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 

    “A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

    About Beloved

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. 

    This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

    Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 

    “A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

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    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    About Toni Morrison

    TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 08, 2004 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400033416

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $32.00
    Published by Knopf
    Oct 22, 2019 | 288 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780525659273

    Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 17, 2006 | 360 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780307264886

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $32.00
    Published by Knopf
    Aug 12, 1987 | 288 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780394535975

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 24, 2007 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307388629

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    May 16, 2006 | 724 Minutes | ISBN 9780739342138

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    Praise

    “A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

    “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review

    “Toni Morrison’s finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” —Chicago Sun-Times

    “Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times

    “A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering.” —Newsweek

    “Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble.” —People

    “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” —New York Review of Books

    “A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written.” —The Washington Post

    “There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you.” —The New Yorker

    “A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book.” —The Baltimore Sun

    “Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told.” —Cosmopolitan

    “Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” —Milwaukee Journal

    “Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” —The Plain Dealer

    “Stunning. . . A lasting achievement.” —The Christian Science Monitor

    “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration.” —USA Today

    “Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” —The Village Voice

    “A book worth many rereadings.” —Glamour

    “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    “Shattering emotional power and impact.” —New York Daily News

    “A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph.” —St. Petersburg Times

    “Powerful . . . voluptuous.” —New York

    Awards

    Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WINNER 1988

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1993

    Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1988

    Robert F. Kennedy Book Award AWARD 1988

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