Toni Morrison - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993 (28 books)

TONI MORRISON (b. 1931-2019) was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.  Among her many honors, she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for "novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, giv[ing] life to an essential aspect of American reality."

The central theme in her work is the black American experience; in an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity.  Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture.

Her first book, THE BLUEST EYE (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes.   SULA (1973) examines the dynamics of friendship and the expectations for conformity within the community.  SONG OF SOLOMON (1977) is told by a male narrator in search of his identity; its publication brought Morrison to national attention.  TAR BABY (1981), set on a Caribbean island, explores conflicts of race, class, and sex.

The critically acclaimed BELOVED (1987), which won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is based on the true story of a runaway slave who, at the point of recapture, kills her infant daughter in order to spare her a life of slavery.  JAZZ (1992) is a story of violence and passion set in New York City's Harlem during the 1920s.  Subsequent novels are PARADISE (1998), a richly detailed portrait of a black utopian community in Oklahoma, and LOVE (2003), an intricate family story that reveals the myriad facets of love and its ostensible opposite.  A MERCY (2008) deals with slavery in 17th-century America.  In the redemptive HOME (2012), a traumatized Korean War veteran encounters racism after returning home and later overcomes apathy to rescue his sister.  GOD HELP THE CHILD (2015) chronicles the ramifications of child abuse and neglect through the tale of Bride, a black girl with dark skin who is born to light-skinned parents.

A work of criticism, PLAYING IN THE DARK (1992), features brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway and leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of the American literary tradition.  REMEMBER (2004) chronicles the hardships of black students during the integration of the American public school system.  The essays, speeches and meditations in her last published collection of essays, THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD (2019), are concerned with race, gender and globalisation, the sweep of American history and the current state of politics, the duty of the press and the role of the artist.

This torrent also includes a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, Morrison's acceptance speeches upon receiving the National Book Foundation Medal and the Nobel Prize, and several of her children's books.


This is an updated version of an earlier torrent.  The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:


== FICTION ==

* Beloved (Vintage, 2004) -- PDF + ePUB
* Bluest Eye, The (Vintage, 2007) -- PDF + ePUB
* God Help the Child (Knopf, 2015) -- ePUB
* Home (Knopf, 2012) -- ePUB
* Jazz (Vintage, 2004) -- PDF + ePUB
* Love (Knopf, 2003) -- ePUB
* Mercy, A (Knopf, 2008) -- PDF + ePUB
* Paradise (Knopf, 1998) -- PDF + ePUB
* Song of Solomon (Vintage, 2004) -- ePUB
* Sula (Vintage, 2004) -- PDF + ePUB
* "Sweetness" (New Yorker, 9 Feb 2015) -- PDF
* Tar Baby (Vintage, 2004) -- ePUB


== PLAYS ==

* Desdemona (Oberon, 2012) -- ePUB


== NON-FICTION ==

* Art of Fiction, no. 134 (Paris Review, Fall 1993).  Interview by Elissa Schappell -- PDF
* Birth of a Nation'Hood [ed.] (Pantheon, 1997) -- ePUB
* Burn This Book: Pen Writers Speak Out [ed.] (HarperCollins, 2009) -- PDF + ePUB
* Conversations with Toni Morrison (Mississippi, 1994).  D. Taylor-Guthrie, ed. -- PDF
* Dancing Mind,The (Knopf, 2003) -- ePUB
* Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations (Vintage, 2019) -- ePUB
* Nobel Prize Lecture, 1993 (Knopf, 2007) -- ePUB
* Origin of Others, The (Harvard, 2017) -- PDF
* Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination (Vintage, 1993) -- PDF + ePUB
* Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) -- PDF
* Source of Self-Regard, The: Selected Essays (Knopf, 2019) -- ePUB
* What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (Mississippi, 2008) -- PDF


== CHILDREN'S BOOKS ==

* Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? [with Slade Morrison] (Scribner, 2003) -- PDF
* Who's Got Game? Three Fables [with Slade Morrison] (Scribner, 2007) -- PDF

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