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Harlem Shadows

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Harlem Shadows

by Claude McKay

English· 02:04:53· 76 chapters
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his colorful and emotional poetry.
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introduction

    13:57
  2. Chapter 2

    Author's Word

    04:37
  3. Chapter 3

    The Easter Flower

    01:08
  4. Chapter 4

    To One Coming North

    01:26
  5. Chapter 5

    America

    01:13
  6. Chapter 6

    Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table

    01:29
  7. Chapter 7

    The Tropics in New York

    01:13
  8. Chapter 8

    Flame Heart

    02:22
  9. Chapter 9

    Home Thoughts

    01:29
  10. Chapter 10

    On Broadway

    01:16
  11. Chapter 11

    The Barrier

    00:53
  12. Chapter 12

    Adolescence

    01:07
  13. Chapter 13

    Homing Swallows

    01:06
  14. Chapter 14

    The City's Love

    00:58
  15. Chapter 15

    North and South

    01:37
  16. Chapter 16

    Wild May

    01:16
  17. Chapter 17

    The Plateau

    01:23
  18. Chapter 18

    After the Winter

    01:04
  19. Chapter 19

    The Wild Goat

    00:50
  20. Chapter 20

    Harlem Shadows

    01:48
  21. Chapter 21

    The White City

    01:15
  22. Chapter 22

    The Spanish Needle

    01:24
  23. Chapter 23

    My Mother

    02:07
  24. Chapter 24

    In Bondage

    01:17
  25. Chapter 25

    December 1919

    01:07
  26. Chapter 26

    Heritage

    01:21
  27. Chapter 27

    When I Have Passed Away

    01:05
  28. Chapter 28

    Enslaved

    01:14
  29. Chapter 29

    I Shall Return

    01:18
  30. Chapter 30

    Morning Joy

    01:30
  31. Chapter 31

    Africa

    01:16
  32. Chapter 32

    On a Primitive Canoe

    01:16
  33. Chapter 33

    Winter in the Country

    01:42
  34. Chapter 34

    To Winter

    01:26
  35. Chapter 35

    Spring in New Hampshire

    01:12
  36. Chapter 36

    On the Road

    01:14
  37. Chapter 37

    The Harlem Dancer

    01:24
  38. Chapter 38

    Dawn in New York

    01:21
  39. Chapter 39

    The Tired Worker

    01:32
  40. Chapter 40

    Outcast

    01:21
  41. Chapter 41

    I know My Soul

    01:15
  42. Chapter 42

    Birds of Prey

    01:16
  43. Chapter 43

    The Castaways

    01:14
  44. Chapter 44

    Exhortation: Summer, 1919

    02:37
  45. Chapter 45

    The Lynching

    01:27
  46. Chapter 46

    Baptism

    01:22
  47. Chapter 47

    If We Must Die

    01:20
  48. Chapter 48

    Subway Wind

    01:24
  49. Chapter 49

    The Night Fire

    01:23
  50. Chapter 50

    Poetry

    01:17
  51. Chapter 51

    To A Poet

    01:04
  52. Chapter 52

    A Prayer

    01:28
  53. Chapter 53

    When Dawn Comes to the City

    02:56
  54. Chapter 54

    O Word I Love to Sing

    01:12
  55. Chapter 55

    Absence

    01:24
  56. Chapter 56

    Summer Morn in New Hampshire

    01:29
  57. Chapter 57

    Rest in Peace

    01:14
  58. Chapter 58

    A Red Flower

    01:52
  59. Chapter 59

    Courage

    01:24
  60. Chapter 60

    To O.E.A.

    01:50
  61. Chapter 61

    Romance

    01:32
  62. Chapter 62

    Flower of Love

    01:44
  63. Chapter 63

    The Snow Fairy

    02:14
  64. Chapter 64

    La Paloma in London

    01:19
  65. Chapter 65

    A Memory of June

    01:38
  66. Chapter 66

    Flirtation

    00:56
  67. Chapter 67

    Tormented

    01:13
  68. Chapter 68

    Polarity

    00:51
  69. Chapter 69

    One Year After

    02:05
  70. Chapter 70

    French Leave

    01:46
  71. Chapter 71

    Jasmines

    01:24
  72. Chapter 72

    Commemoration

    01:22
  73. Chapter 73

    Memorial

    01:50
  74. Chapter 74

    Thirst

    01:17
  75. Chapter 75

    Futility

    01:19
  76. Chapter 76

    Through Agony

    02:21