The Fire Next Time
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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241752388
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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The Fire Next Time

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15 Jul 2025
EBook
25 Jan 1990
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4 Apr 2024
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‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’

Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.
  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241752388
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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Also by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room
Dark Days
If Beale Street Could Talk
Another Country
Notes of a Native Son
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work
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Praise for The Fire Next Time

His prophetic warning . . . Baldwin’s words can still bring clarity to our conversations about injustice today

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