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Richard Wright (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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In addition to his five novels, Richard Wright published collections of essays and short stories and two autobiographical volumes. Two collections of short stories, the early Uncle Tom’s Children (1938, 1940) and the posthumously collected Eight Men (1961), represent some of Wright’s finest fiction. Wright himself felt that the characters in Uncle Tom’s Children were too easily pitied and that they elicited from readers a sympathy that was unlike the tough intellectual judgment he desired. Wright later wrote that his creation of...
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