Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksWinner of the National Book Award 1990The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans, dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isadora Bailey, a prim and frugal woman who seeks to marry him and curb his mischievous instincts. When the heat from these resp...

Crack open the true legends of the Golden Age of Piracy with this vibrant new edition of A General History of the Pyrates, the book that launched Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, and their infamous brethren into global consciousness. Dive into this epic history with digitally restored engravings, an expanded sea-term glossary, and the untamed language of the eighteenth century, then set sail on a journey across the oceans with the world's most notorious outlaws.This pri...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award–winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch.Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city’s unscrupulous bill...

En "Historias de Piratas", el Capitán Charles Johnson ofrece una fascinante compilación que sumerge al lector en el intrigante mundo de la piratería del siglo XVIII. Este libro no solo narra las aventuras de notables piratas, sino que también proporciona un análisis sobre la vida en el mar y la moralidad de esos hombres fuera de la ley. Johnson utiliza un estilo literario vívido y descriptivo, combinado con un lenguaje coloquial que despierta la imaginación y la curiosidad del lector. Publ...

Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based ...

Dal pirata Barbanera (Edward Teach) al temibile Roberts, fino alle donne pirata Mary Read e Anne Bonny. Dai Caraibi fino alle spiagge africane. Le gesta dei pirati attraversano la storia di interi continenti e nazioni: flagellarono le coste di mezzo mondo e affrontarono le più temibili navi da guerra per accaparrarsi preziosi bottini sfidando la sorte fra colossali bevute di rum e privazioni di ogni tipo. Lasciarono una traccia unica e leggendaria, pagata spesso a prezzo della vita. Storia...

From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, “the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist…comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread” (The New York Times Book Review), showcasing his incredible range and resonant voice.Charles Johnson’s Night Hawks presents an eclectic, masterful collection of stories tied together by Buddhist themes and displaying all the grace, heart...

During the Golden Age of Piracy, a writer calling himself "Captain" Charles Johnson introduced London readers to the denizens of a savage world just beyond their shores. These pirates took up residence in readers' imaginations, where they've been a mainstay of popular culture ever since.Pirate history especially resonates for American readers, as what would become the wild frontier of the American west began in the piratical eastern seaboard of Colonial times. When revolutionaries ...

atary The book Saluting our Veterans with Encouraging PoemsFacts and Resources. Is a masterpiece of work that can be used by Veterans , families, and organizations to help the Veterans in crisis. Im a two time Korea touring Veteran and i think his work and poems are impeccable and should be honored. Dr.James Turknett MPC , DMin, SSg E-6 United States Army . Drill Sgt/Platoon

The actual history of the little book, the major part of which is here reprinted, is as follows:Its full title is “The History and Lives of all the most Notorious Pirates and their Crews,” and the fifth edition, from which our text is taken, was printed in 1735.

Valentine's Day is the Holiday of Romance. Romance is love in its active state, ignited and inspired. That is what this book is about! With inspiring poetry, this book is an opportunity to ignite your existing relationship with romance, and love with an added dose of romance will result in a stronger, longer lasting and far more satisfying relationship

National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson reflects on the joys of being a grandparent in this warm, inspiring collection of wisdom and life lessons—the ideal gift for any new parent or grandparentAn award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has held numerous impressive titles over the course of his incomparable career. Now, for the first time, with his trademark wisdom and phi...