Proud and beautiful, Sethe escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage--from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest work.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison.

First published in 1970, this is the first novel by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

From the author of "Paradise" and "Beloved", Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

Toni Morrison reads her spectacular novel, Paradise. In Paradise -- her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature -- Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.

Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written—as John Leonard said in The New York Times—in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."

The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones…

"She is worried about how the language she dreams in, given to her at birth, is handled, put into service..."

Toni Morrison has published seven novels.

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