Down by the Riverside by Richard Wright
A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist world
With the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety. In the chaos, a single desperate decision sets off a chain of events that cannot be undone. Down By the Riverside is Richard Wright’s unflinching novella of race, power and consequence. Starkly told and painfully resonant, it captures how quickly the world can turn – and who is forced to pay the price.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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We Were Forbidden
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Paradises Lost
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In Praise of Prejudice
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Things: A Story of the Sixties
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Mouse Folk
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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Culture Counts
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Kew Gardens
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Monkey Business
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Masks
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
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Passing
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A Gentle Spirit and a Faint Heart
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Fighters & Martyrs
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
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The Cat
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Sally Bowles
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Venus Smiles (and Other Vermillion Sands Stories)
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Behind a Mask
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The Invisible Girl
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A Souvenir of Japan
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Woman of Genius
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Pinball, 1973
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The Dead
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The Dunwich Horror
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Tender Buttons
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Bartleby, The Scrivener
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Laura
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The Parasite
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The Third Man
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The Poet
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The Master of Go
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Distant Star
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Bewitched
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The Fatal Eggs
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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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An Undesirable Friend
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Dracula's Guest
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Lady Susan
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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First Light
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Ape and Essence
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Sunday's Children
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The Case of the Late Pig
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Cain
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Young at the Time
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Native Son
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The Man Who Lived Underground
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Black Boy
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Time Pieces for Guitar, Volume 1
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12 Million Black Voices
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The Outsider
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Injustice
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Joining the Dots for Guitar, Grade 4
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Uncle Tom's Children
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Joining the Dots for Guitar, Grade 5
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Pagan Spain
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Eight Men
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Understanding Religious Ethics: A Complete Guide for OCR AS and A2 Student Book
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Black Power
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The Flesh Market
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Sharm el-Sheikh Travel Guide
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Solo Now! Preparatory Book
Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-slaves. His mother was a schoolteacher but, abandoned by her husband, she had to resort to menial jobs to feed her two sons before suffering a series of strokes. During a childhood scarred by hunger, Wright lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen, returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago where he was employed at the Post Office before beginning work at the Federal Writers' Project in 1935. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year. His other books include Native Son (1940), his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war, Richard Wright chose expatriation and went to live in Paris with his family, remaining there until his death in 1960.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781529986020 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529986028 |
| Title | Down by the Riverside |
| Author | Richard Wright |
| Series | Brief Encounters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Classics |
| Year published | 2026-07-02 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |