The Fire Next Time

116 Pages·1963·4.09 MB·English

by  James Baldwin

THE FIRE NEXT TIME contains
the complete text ofJ ames Baldwin's
explosive article that appeared in
The New Yorker of 17th November
19fr2. It also contains a letter to his
nephew on the 1o oth anniversary of
the emancipation ofs laves in America.
The book is a plea and a warning
-a plea that all Americans should
look to the true state of their land
a warning of what may happen if
they do not.
'James Baldwin is one of the best
writers (certainly essayists) writ
ing in America today. Baldwin's
style is no less remarkable than
his theme. It is deliberate and
dramatic. It is a highly disturbing
and painful comment on a nation
that a man of Baldwin's sensibility
and talent should feel and think
as he does. The Fire Next Time is
an extraordinary human document
- a classic'.
THE FIRE NEXT TIME contains
the complete text ofJ ames Baldwin's
explosive article that appeared in
The New Yorker of 17th November
1962. It also contains a letter to his
nephew on the 1o oth anniversary of
theemancipationofslavesinAmerica.
The book is a plea and a warning
-a plea that all Americans should
look to the true state of their land
a warning of what may happen if
they do not.
'James Baldwin is one of the best
writers (certainly essayists) writ
ing in America today. Baldwin's
style is no less remarkable than
his theme. It is deliberate and
dramatic. It is a highly disturbing
and painful comment on a nation
that a man of Baldwin's sensibility
and talent should feel and think
as he does. The Fire Next Time is
an extraordinary human document
- a classic'.

The Fire Next Time
'God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
No more water, the fire next time!'
Also by James Baldwin
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
GIOVANNI'S ROOM
•
ANOTHER COUNTRY
NOTES OF A NATIVE SON
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME
BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE (play)
GOING TO MEET THE MAN
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
LONDON
MICHAEL JOSEPH
First published in Great Britain by
MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD
26 Bloomsbury Street
London, WC 1
July 1963
Second Impression August 1963
Third Impression September 1963
Fourth Impression October 1963
Fifth Impressio"i February 1968
«:> Copyright 1963, 1962 by James Baldwin
Reproduced and printed by offset lithography in Great
Britain by the Hollen Street Press Ltd, Slough and bmmd
by James Bum at Esher.
for James
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Luc James