DOC Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami in History

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Edited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-PharrIn this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir; Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story; which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative “is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill; cunning; and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom; write his story; and gain international prominence;” writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. “He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals; black; white; and otherwise; on both sides of the Atlantic.”The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794; reflecting the author’s final changes to his masterwork.