Beloved
Dublin Core
Title
Beloved
Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Creator
Morrison, Toni
Source
2021
Publisher
Knopf
Date
1987
Banned/Challenged: 2006, 2012, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Banned/Challenged: 2006, 2012, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Relation
Format
Text
Type
Physical Object
Identifier
ISBN: 9781400033416
Citation
Morrison, Toni, “Beloved,” Omeka, accessed June 17, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/630.