La piccola protagonista di queste pagine è sia calma come un tramonto, sia impetuosa come un ruscello in piena, sia riflessiva come il ghiaccio colpito dalla luce, sia chiassosa come una foresta pluviale. Non la si può descrivere in poche parole perché cambia di continuo e dentro di sé racchiude un mondo intero. Come lei, ogni bambino ha una personalità sfaccettata e tutta da scoprire, una mappa del cuore solo sua da esplorare per celebrare la propria unicità. Un libro pieno di sorprese per accendere le mille sfumature che ci rendono ciò che siamo e imparare ad amarci in ogni momento. Età di lettura: da 5 anni.

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1859, 'Our Nig' ebbe una diffusione molto limitata per poi scomparire rapidamente dall'orizzonte editoriale. Riscoperto soltanto alla fine del secolo scorso, oggi vanta numerose edizioni ed è considerato una pietra miliare della letteratura americana, nonché il primo romanzo scritto da una donna afroamericana. Harriet Wilson in questa sua opera chiaramente autobiografica narra della straziante storia di Frado, una bambina sveglia e determinata che all'età di sei anni, dopo la morte del padre, viene abbandonata dalla madre presso la famiglia Bellmont, nel New Hampshire, dove vivrà un'infanzia di privazioni e atroci sofferenze.

A personal and complete retrospective by one of the most important twentieth-century photographers. Elegantly curated by the legendary photographer and his youngest daughter Frances von Hofmannsthal, Snowdon looks back at an exceptional life and features a selection of 175 full-color and black-and-white stylish fashion photographs and iconic portraits taken throughout his expansive and influential career. Having started photographing at a young age, Snowdon focused primarily on theater, fashion, and society photography before becoming the official Royal photographer and starting a six-decade working relationship with Vogue. In 1960, he married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, and in 1961 he began his illustrious career with The Sunday Times magazine. Known for his expressive and candid portraits, using both subtle humor and quiet sincerity, Snowdon’s work evokes a sense of familiarity met with extreme beauty. His successes have branched equally from the worlds of high fashion and celebrity to the British Royal family, making his audience vast and beloved. The subjects featured include Cecil Beaton, Charlie Chaplin, David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint Laurent, and Jack Nicholson, among others. Archive material includes previously unpublished polaroids, private scrapbooks, and letters.

With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis

A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father, who grows up as an indentured servant to a white family in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.

This definitive edition of Our Nig includes a new Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis and a set of appendices:  'Harriet Wilson's Career as a Spiritualist';  'Hattie E. Wilson in the Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist' a collection of her extant contributions to these newspapers;  'Documents from Harriet Wilson's Life in Boston,' and a compilation of primary source material relating to Wilson's identity.  There is also a new chronology of the life of Harriet Wilson by Richard J. Ellis, as well as an up-to-date Select Bibliography of current scholarship regarding Harriet Wilson. This edition gives the fullest account to date of the life of Harriet Wilson, filling out many critical points regarding her life after writing Our Nig, in particular when she became a 'medium' who communicated with the dead and as an educator in the 'Spiritualist' movement after the Civil War.