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Paperback:
9781505955668 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 6, 2015, cover price $6.75
Paperback:
9781939601025 | Reissue edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, December 3, 2013), cover price $11.95
Library:
9780803749382 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.47 | About this edition: A young black boy living on a cane plantation recounts the events of the day his parents separate and are reconciled.
Hardcover:
9780517269190, titled "Lesson Before Dying" | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel.
9780679455615 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In 1948 Louisiana, a young teacher is asked to impart some of his own pride and learning to a young Black man awaiting execution, only to come face to face with his own cynicism and hopelessness
9780792717959 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1994), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
9780679414773 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1948 Louisiana, a young teacher is asked to impart some of his own pride and learning to a young Black man awaiting execution, only to come face to face with his own cynicism and hopelessness
Paperback:
9780375702709 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man
9789990143188, titled "Lesson Before Dying" | Random House Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $0.02 | also contains A Lesson Before Dying
9780679741664 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739323670 | Unabridged edition (Random House, May 17, 2005), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781580812382 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, April 1, 2002), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In a drama about race and resistance in 1940s Louisiana, Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to counsel the condemned man.
9781578152148 | Abridged edition (Media Books Llc, June 1, 2001), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Based on Ernest J.
9780375402586, titled "Lesson Before Dying" | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 1, 1997), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: 6 cassettes / approx.
9781570422232 | Abridged edition (Hachette Audio, February 1, 1995), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man.
Reinforced:
9780606071505 | Demco Media, June 1, 1994, cover price $22.30 | About this edition: Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man
Prebinding:
9781439559314 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 8, 2008), cover price $21.95 | also contains A Lesson Before Dying | About this edition: From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Hardcover:
9781887366830 | Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 17, 2009, cover price $40.00
Hardcover:
9780385240178, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Reprint edition (Doubleday, February 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in twentieth-century demonstrations
9780816160105 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1971), cover price $14.95
Paperback:
9780385342780, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, January 27, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Miss Jane Pittman.
9780553263572, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786110537, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1997), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the civil rights demonstrations.
9780694504138 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, December 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Miss Jane Pittman.
Reinforced:
9780606022132, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Demco Media, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations
Prebinding:
9781439574195, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Miss Jane Pittman.
9780881035629, titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: An old woman recalls her struggle against bigotry from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations
Hardcover:
9780896215115 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to identify the killer--a white overseer and a group of Black farmers all claim responsibility--and prevent revenge
9780394514680 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1983, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to identify the killer--a white overseer and a group of Black farmers all claim responsibility--and prevent revenge
Paperback:
9780679738909 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to indentify the killer and prevent revenge
Reinforced:
9780606010276 | Demco Media, July 1, 1992, cover price $20.15 | About this edition: The murder of a white Cajun farmer named Boutan unleashes a fury of buried hatred and defiance, as Sheriff Mapes tries to indentify the killer and prevent revenge
Prebinding:
9781439508091 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $20.95 | also contains A Gathering of Old Men | About this edition: Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
Hardcover:
9780394479385, titled "In My Father's House" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1978, cover price $13.95 | also contains Toucans | About this edition: The arrival in a southern town of a young, unkempt man results in a sudden confrontation with past sin and error on the part of the town's most respected black man, Reverend Phillip Martin
Paperback:
9780679727910, titled "In My Father's House" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The arrival in a southern town of a young, unkempt man results in a sudden confrontation with past sin and error on the part of the town's most respected Black man, Reverend Phillip Martin
Prebinding:
9781439508107, titled "In My Father's House" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past.
Prebinding:
9781417757275 | Turtleback Books, October 17, 2006, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer.
Hardcover:
9781400044726 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 4, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Collects five stories, set in Louisiana, that capture the joys and sorrows of rural Southern life, accompanied by prose works that chronicle the author's life as a writer, and the people and places that he has encountered.
Paperback:
9781400096459 | Vintage Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction and autobiographical essays from the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying includes five stories, set in Louisiana, that capture the joys and sorrows of rural Southern life, accompanied by prose works that chronicle his move to California at fifteen, the beginnings of his life as a writer, and the people and places he has encountered.
Paperback:
9780807130346 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 15, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Wide Awake in the Pelican State -- which mimics the title of Dinty W.
Miscellaneous:
9781400077700 | Vintage Books, January 20, 2004, cover price $13.00
Paperback:
9781586634766 | Spark Pub Group, August 1, 2003, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A study guide to the popular novel offers a plot summary, a review quiz, and an examaination of important quotations, along with analysis of the key themes, motifs, characters, and symbols in the work.
Paperback:
9780679738916 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Catherine, a young Louisiana Black woman, is caught up in the racial tensions between white, Black, and Cajun in the rural plantation area
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786111275 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1997), cover price $32.95
Prebinding:
9780613064804 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Catherine, a young Louisiana Black woman, is caught up in the racial tensions between white, Black, and Cajun in the rural plantation area
Paperback:
9780679781653 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $15.95
9780393007985 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Five stories skillfully portray the social and moral predicaments of the Negro in the rural South
A poor African American boy and his mother experience both discrimination and kindness during a trip to town to see the dentist.
Library:
9780886825829 | Creative Co, August 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A poor African American boy and his mother experience both discrimination and kindness during a trip to town to see the dentist.
The African American author discusses his life, his work, and the prejudices he experienced living in the Southern United States
Hardcover:
9780878057825 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 1995, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: The African American author discusses his life, his work, and the prejudices he experienced living in the Southern United States
Paperback:
9780030095979, titled "Economic Growth & the Environment" | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1998, cover price $42.95 | also contains Conversations With Ernest Gaines, Economic Growth & the Environment
Product Description: A college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, Grant Wiggins forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man. Book available.
Paperback:
9780792717942 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1994), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, Grant Wiggins forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556441561 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781556441554 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95
Paperback:
9780679752486 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Black, who seeks revenge against his oppressive white employers, is doomed when he breaks the most honored rule of love in the South
9780393009149 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Ernest J.
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