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Publication Year: 2025 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group ISBN-10: 0143138588 Book Title: Home to Harlem Publication Name: Home to Harlem Genre: Fiction Contributor: Belinda Edmondson (Introduction by) Number of Pages: 224 Pages Item Width: 5 in Type: Urban Language: English Country of Origin: GB Title: Home to Harlem width: 5 in Release Date: 09/25/2025 EAN: 9780143138587 Item Length: 7.7 in Format: Trade Paperback Item Height: 0.6 in Author: Claude Mckay height: 0.6 in ISBN: 9780143138587 Release Year: 2025 Topic: Classics, African American / General Item Weight: 6 Oz

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Claude McKay Home to Harlem (Paperback). Author: Claude McKay. One of the finest and best-known novels of the Harlem Renaissance. Format: Paperback. Item Width: 35mm. Item Length: 129mm. Item Height: 198mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Further DetailsTitle: Home to Harlem Condition: New Author: Claude McKay Contributor: Belinda Edmondson (Introduction by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0143138588 EAN: 9780143138587 ISBN: 9780143138587 Publisher: Penguin Classics Genre: Fiction Topic: Classic Fiction Release Date: 09/25/2025 Description: One of the finest and best-known novels of the Harlem Renaissance Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem , was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI, through Jake, an African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem, and Ray, a Haitian intellectual expatriate. With his use of dialect, McKay portrays these men and other working-class characters who try to stay afloat in a complex world of isolation, racial discrimination, and excitement drawn from Harlem’s jazz nightlife. Home to Harlem sparked controversy among Black middle-class critics, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, who considered it reductive and stereotypical, while other critics such as Langston Hughes embraced it for its frankness and for the relevance of McKay’s reflections on the Black working-class experience and the social and racial inequalities of the day. This debate within the Harlem Renaissance literary world and curiosity about Harlem from white readers drove Home to Harlem to become the first commercial bestseller by an African American novelist. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 35mm Item Weight: 500g Type: Urban Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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