Beloved Vintage Classics

Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set in post–Civil War Cincinnati, where formerly enslaved Sethe and her daughter Denver live in a house haunted by the ghost of Sethe’s murdered baby. The story blends psychological realism and the supernatural as Sethe’s past at Sweet Home plantation, her desperate act to save her child from slavery, and the arrival of the mysterious young woman Beloved expose the brutal legacy of slavery on memory, identity and motherhood.