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Other editions of book Go Tell It on the Mountain

  • Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Noble and Noble, March 15, 1977)
    A novel of the Harlem ghetto and of a family haunted by sin and searching for sainthood
  • Go tell it on the mountain

    James Baldwin

    Unknown Binding (Dell Pub. Co, March 15, 1973)
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  • Go Tell it on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet, March 15, 1963)
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  • Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Corgi Books, March 15, 1967)
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  • Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Black Swan, March 15, 1984)
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  • Go tell it on the mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Dell Pub. Co, March 15, 1971)
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  • Go tell it on the mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Noble and Noble, March 15, 1968)
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  • Go Tell it on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Paperback (Signet, March 15, 1954)
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  • Go Tell it on the Mountain

    James BALDWIN

    Hardcover (The Dial Press, March 15, 1963)
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  • Go Tell It On The Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Hardcover (Collectors Reprints, Jan. 1, 1991)
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  • Go Tell It On The Mountain

    James Baldwin

    Hardcover (Dial Press, March 15, 1970)
    Jesus said, "A man's enemies will be the members of his own household" (Matthew 10:36), and "No prophet is accepted in his hometown" (Luke 4:24). This idea certainly plays out in the Grimes family of James Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1952). Except for John's mother Elizabeth, the adult Grimeses have no idea that love, familial love, is supposed to include favor (not favoritism like the father Gabriel's), the idea of blessing each other with good words, good will, and heartfelt affection. Unfortunately, the novel's Black Christians' idea of goodness and holiness is colored by the master's idea of a good slave: docile, acquiescent, submissive, silent in the face of abuse, always needing to prove your worth. "Blessed Assurance" isn't one of their songs. "Go Tell" presents not only the story of John's 14th birthday, but the past stories of Elizabeth, Gabriel, and Aunt Florence. Whereas Gabriel's spiritual journey--if you can call it that--at about age 21 is born of desperation and remorse after much self-abuse and self-indulgence, John's spiritual journey on his 14th birthday is one of insight and refuge after much abuse and neglect.
  • Go tell it on the mountain

    James Baldwin

    Hardcover (Franklin Library, March 15, 1981)
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