Pagan Spain

Bodley Head, UK, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 191 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bodley Head, UK, 1960. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has minor lean. Dust jacket has considerable foxing. Edges of dust jacket have minor chipping. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned and mildly foxed. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. The Spain he visited in the mid-twentieth century was not the romantic locale of song and story, but a place of tragic beauty and dangerous contradictions. The portrait he offers is a blistering, powerful, yet scrupulously honest depiction of a land and people in turmoil, caught in the strangling dual grip of cruel dictatorship and what Wright saw as an undercurrent of primitive faith. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the grave human dangers of oppression and governmental corruption. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Culture; History. Inventory No: 13090196..