Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is inspired by a true life incident involving Margaret Garner, an escaped slave …
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Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is inspired by a true life incident involving Margaret Garner, an escaped slave from Kentucky who fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856, but was captured in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When U.S. Marshals burst into the cabin where Garner and her husband had barricaded themselves, they found that she had killed her two-year-old daughter and was attempting to kill her other children to spare them from being returned to slavery. Morrison had come across an account of Garner titled "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article published in the American Baptist, and reproduced in The Black Book; a miscellaneous compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974.The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey. A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 2182
- BNF ID:
- 131714801
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Beloved
Paperback, 327 pages
English language
Published May 17, 1988 by Pan Books 1988. (Picador).
- ISBN:
- 978-0-330-30537-2Copied ISBN!
Menschenkind
Paperback, 374 pages
German language
Published May 17, 1992 by Rowohlt Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-499-13065-6Copied ISBN!
Beloved
17,9 x 11 x 1,8 cm, 379 pages
French language
Published May 22, 2008 by 10-18.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-264-04796-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6349875
Beloved
324 pages
English language
Published May 18, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-3341-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6149
Beloved
324 pages
English language
Published May 18, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-3341-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6149
Beloved
Hardcover, 360 pages
English language
Published May 18, 2006 by Everyman's Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-26488-6Copied ISBN!
Beloved
352 pages
English language
Published Feb. 9, 2008 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-951165-6Copied ISBN!
Beloved
Paperback, 379 pages
French language
Published May 18, 1993 by Christian Bourgois.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-267-00742-8Copied ISBN!
Beloved
380 pages
French language
Published May 1, 1993
- ISBN:
- 978-2-264-01957-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 25669380
Beloved
French language
Published May 18, 1990 by Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-04150-8Copied ISBN!
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