This ground-breaking novel of self-discovery, freedom, and womanhood records the erotic fantasies and outrageous adventures of Isadora Wing who travels constantly in spite of her phobia of flight, accompanied by a new introduction by the author. Reprint[...]

I have written of the black American experience, which I know intimately. I am always talking about the human condition in general and about society in particular. What it is like to be human, and American, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on.

The com[...]

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
"A Song Flung Up to Heaven"opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to wor[...]

'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam[...]

2 CDs / 3 hours
Read by the Author, Maya Angelou
Also available on cassette Superbly told--with the poet's gift for language and observation, and charged with the unforgettable emotion of remembered anguish and love--this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arka[...]

- New appealing design and color photos attract readers
- Biographies of contemporary African Americans of interest to young people
- Features inspirational African Americans, important role models
- Essential for Black History Month
- Supports the History/Social Studies and English/Lang[...]

"Gather Together in My Name" continues Maya Angelou's personal story, begun so unforgettably in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are d[...]

Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer s remarkable life.
Every poetic phrase, every poig[...]

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first vo[...]

This book is a collection of 131 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Maya Angelou. It grants her reflections on subjects ranging from Love and Smile to Education and Achievement:"e;If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."e;"e;I believe that every person is born [...]