Les Misérables | Related Titles
For other writings about prejudice and its effects, look for Native Son, a 1940 novel by Richard Wright. Telling the story of Bigger Thomas, a poor black boy raised in the Chicago slums, Wright describes how Bigger's fear of white society, and its fear of him, turns him into a criminal. In the Belly of the Beast offers an insider's account of prison life written by the controversial Jack Henry Abbott, a convict. Abbott was released after he published the book in 1991, at the urging of a group of writers including Norman Mailer. Shortly thereafter, he killed a man in a bar...
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