by Claude McKay · 1937
Memoir
Claude McKay's memoir of his years of travel: Harlem, Russia, Europe and North Africa. A frank account of a writer looking for a place to belong.
Content note: Written in 1937, this memoir contains frank talk of sex, drink and racism, and uses language of its time that is offensive today.
The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Long Way from Home, by Claude Mckay.
A LONG WAY FROM HOME
BY CLAUDE McKAY
LEE FURMAN · INC · NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1937,
BY LEE FURMAN, INC.
Permission to reprint poems from "Harlem Shadows" was kindly granted by Harcourt, Brace and Co.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To my friends everywhere
CONTENTS
PART ONE AMERICAN BEGINNING CHAPTER PAGE I A GREAT EDITOR 3 II OTHER EDITORS 26 III WHITE FRIENDS 35 IV ANOTHER WHITE FRIEND 45 PART TWO ENGLISH INNING V ADVENTURING IN SEARCH OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 59 VI PUGILIST VS. POET 66 VII A JOB IN LONDON 73 VIII REGARDING REACTIONARY CRITICISM 86 PART THREE NEW YORK HORIZON IX BACK IN HARLEM 95 X A BROWN DOVE COOING 116 XI A LOOK AT H.G.
