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Langston Hughes
Fourteen stories deal with the interaction of Blacks and whites in 1930s America, including the stories of an ailing musician, a moonlighting student, and a clever charlatan.
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Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of ‘the poet laureate of black America’ - New Yorker.
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Find out how a young boy from the Midwest became one of the most important writers and activists of the Harlem Renaissance in this addition to the #1 New York…
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Steven C. Tracy
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how…
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W. Jason Miller
A new biography of Langston Hughes, taking in his extraordinary life and canonical works.
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Thomas Mikolyzk
The first provides an alphabetical listing of Hughes’s works, including place and date of publication, and the second describes special collections in America of Hughes’s personal material as well as…
Storytelling is an ancient and powerful human tradition. It ties us to cultural memory and the experiences of those who came before us, linking one generation to the next. Oral…
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
The Mule-Bone; A comedy of Negro life in three acts, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
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Hans Ostrom
The encyclopedia additionally provides entries for numerous topics related to his life and writings, including Marxism, McCarthyism, Modernism, Jazz, and Religion, and for the many individuals who were associated with…
Laurie Leach
This biography traces Hughes’ life and artistic development, from his early years of isolation, which fostered his fierce independence, to his prolific life as a poet, playwright, lyricist, and journalist.
Rebecca Carey Rohan,Rebecca Rohan
A look at the life and time of Langston Hughes.
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This volume is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the many facets of Langston Hughes’s career. Reading essays that track his career from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe…
A collection of the author’s favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished manuscripts.
This title explores the events surrounding the doomed flight of the space shuttle Challenger, providing background information on the event, examining related controversies, and offering personal narratives from those who…
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as…
Maurice O Wallace
Describes the life of twentieth-century American author Langston Hughes and profiles his major poetic and prose works, also providing a chronology, bibliography, Filmography, and list of further resources.
R. Baxter Miller
Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography.
Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad…
American Critical Archives is a series of reference books that provide representative selections of contemporary reviews of the main works of major American authors. This book represents the first comprehensive…
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…
Bonnie Greer
An unforgettable portrait of a man caught up in strange and contradictory times.
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A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own reflections, is offered on CD for the first time. Unabridged. 1 CD.
M E Miller
Investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices as they resisted, accepted, and executed…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Harlem, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Mulatto, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Chyina Powell
Describes the life, career, and social impact of poet Langston Hughes. Includes A Closer Look feature –
Hughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town. When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a…
Langston Hughes’s stories about Jesse B. Semple–first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind,Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple…
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
The poetic wisdom of Hughes merges with visionary illustrations from Collier in this inspirational picture book that carries the promise of equality and creates a breathtaking reminder of unity.
Gather Up Yo' Fine Clothes is Langston Hughes' second book of poetry. Its launch caused controversy, not only because of its original title, Fine Clothes to the Jew, but also…
Hughes’s spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the…
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963–the most comprehensive available–showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the development of his personal and…
For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War-era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces readers to an unlikely team behind a church…
From Ape to Zebra–with bees, camels, fish, and even a unicorn in between–he paints a picture of each animal with just a few simple, but telling, words.
First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1930. Previously published with an introduction by Angela Flournoy in Penguin Books 2018.
First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1930 –Title page verso.
Langston Hughes’s stories about Jesse B. Semple–first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple…
Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Hughes invented jazz poetry
Regardless of whether he was gay, bisexual, or asexual (all of…
Poet Langston Hughes’ only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.
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Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes’s first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From The Weary Blues…
