Bessie Head

33 books

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter with Jamaica Kincaid, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Suniti Namjoshi, Frances Towers, Colette, Jane Bowles, Ama Ata Aidoo, Elizabeth Jolley, Rocky Gamez, George Egerton, Leonora Carrington, Luo Shu, Grace Paley, Bessie Head, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield

416 pages • paperback • 1986 (editions)

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Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

Angela Carter with Jamaica Kincaid, Vernon Lee, Andrée Chedid, Suniti Namjoshi, Frances Towers, Colette, Jane Bowles, Ama Ata Aidoo, Elizabeth Jolley, Rocky Gamez, George Egerton, Leonora Carrington, Luo Shu, Grace Paley, Bessie Head, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield

416 pages • paperback • 1986

fiction short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

Call Me Woman
Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

288 pages • 1985 (editions)

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Call Me Woman

Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

288 pages • 1985

nonfiction autobiography hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales
Bessie Head

109 pages • paperback • 1977 (editions)

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The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales

Bessie Head

109 pages • paperback • 1977

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God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression by Alberto Manguel

God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression
Alberto Manguel with Anna Seghers, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Bessie Head, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O’Faolain, Antonio Skármeta, Reza Baraheni, Wang Meng, Isaac Babel

407 pages • paperback • 1999 (editions)

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God's Spies: Stories in defiance of oppression

Alberto Manguel with Anna Seghers, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Bessie Head, Vladimir Nabokov, Sean O’Faolain, Antonio Skármeta, Reza Baraheni, Wang Meng, Isaac Babel

407 pages • paperback • 1999

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Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures by Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures
Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer

105 pages • 2002 (editions)

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Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures

Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer

105 pages • 2002

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Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America by Barbara H. Solomon

Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • paperback • 1992 (editions)

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Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America

Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • paperback • 1992

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A Question of Power
Bessie Head

206 pages • 1974 (editions)

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A Question of Power

Bessie Head

206 pages • 1974

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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology by Beverly Lawn

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology
Beverly Lawn

560 pages • paperback • 2000 (editions)

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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

Beverly Lawn

560 pages • paperback • 2000

fiction classics short stories informative medium-paced

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories by Bessie Head, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories
Bessie Head, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

96 pages • 2007 (editions)

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To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories

Bessie Head, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

96 pages • 2007

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru by Bessie Head

When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru
Bessie Head with Helen Oyeyemi (Contributor)

352 pages • paperback • 2010 (editions)

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When Rain Clouds Gather & Maru

Bessie Head with Helen Oyeyemi (Contributor)

352 pages • paperback • 2010

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