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Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Category: Fiction
Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas townWhen first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted noveli ...Show more
Not Without Laughter (Harlem Renaissance) by Langston Hughes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Harlem Renaissance Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESCelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.'White peoples maybe mistreats you an' hates you, but when you hates 'em back, you's de one what's hurted, 'cause hate makes yo' heart ugly ...Show more
Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Category: Poetry
For over 40 years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. Selected Poems is made up of Hughes' own choice of his poetry, published first in 1959. It includes all of Hughes' best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary ...Show more
Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Category: Poetry
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' - New Yorker.
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Category: Biography | Series: American Century Ser.
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. InThe Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks a ...Show more
The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava, Langston Hughes
Category: Fiction
"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." --Roy DeCarava The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a "poem" about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about ...Show more
The Ways of White Folks (Vintage Deco) by Langston Hughes
Category: Classic Fiction
A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and '30s.A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic intera ...Show more
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes; Carl Van Vechten (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still invokes a fresh, contemporary feeling and offers a powerful reflection ...Show more
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