Prison Literature & Writings

Explore powerful prison literature and writings with our curated list of books. Discover memoirs, essays, and novels penned by incarcerated authors, offering raw insights into life behind bars and the human spirit.

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Devil on the Cross

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

Devil on the Cross tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who emigrated from her small rural town to the city of Nairobi …
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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

by marquis de Sade

The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," …
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Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel …
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Empire

by Michael Hardt

Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the …
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm …
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Discipline and Punish

by Michel Foucault

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition …
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