Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Published:
    1953
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    240
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
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    • Dec-1985
    • Dell
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0440330076
    • ISBN13: 9780440330073
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    • Jun-2000
    • Dial Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0385334575
    • ISBN13: 9780385334570
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    • Jan-2001
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451011384
    • ISBN13: 9780451011381
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    • Jan-2001
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451022726
    • ISBN13: 9780451022721
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    • Oct-2001
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0141185910
    • ISBN13: 9780141185910
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    • May-2013
    • Vintage
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0345806549
    • ISBN13: 9780345806543
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    • Nov-1985
    • Perfection Learning
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 081241909X
    • ISBN13: 9780812419092
    • Library Binding
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    • Oct-1995
    • Modern Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0679601546
    • ISBN13: 9780679601548
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    • Sep-2013
    • Perfection Learning
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1627659560
    • ISBN13: 9781627659567
    • Library Binding
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    • Mar-2016
    • Everyman's Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1101907614
    • ISBN13: 9781101907610
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    • Jan-2010
    • ProQuest LLC
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1109999372
    • ISBN13: 9781109999372
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    • Sep-2013
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0345806557
    • ISBN13: 9780345806550
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    • Dec-2017
    • ACT Publishing / KLAWEI Musikverlag Siegfried Loch
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Jan-2013
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2013
    • AudioGO
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 079279611X
    • ISBN13: 9780792796114
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    • Jan-2013
    • AudioGO
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1620645432
    • ISBN13: 9781620645437
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    • Feb-2013
    • AudioGO
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 0792796136
    • ISBN13: 9780792796138



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