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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes 🔍
Langston Hughes, Akiba Sullivan Harper, Arnold Rampersad, Langston Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Hill and Wang, First pbk. edition, 2011;1997
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Stories capturing “the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism” by “a great American writer” (Kirkus Reviews).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 artistic concerns in the decades that preceded the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.“[Hughes's fiction] manifests his ‘wonder at the world.'As these stories reveal, that wonder has lost little of its shine.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Langston Hughes: Short Stories
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Hughes, Langston; Harper, Akiba Sullivan; Rampersad, Arnold
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Langston Hughes; Donna Sullivan Harper; Arnold Rampersad
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Langston Hughes; Arnold Rampersad; Akiba Sullivan Harper
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Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc, Booksite Afrika [distributor],. Pan Macmillan South Africa [distributor],. Macmillan Distribution Services Pty Ltd [distributor],. Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd [distributor],. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc [distributor
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Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [N.p.], 1997
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United States, United States of America
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1st pbk. ed, New York, 1997, ©1996
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First pbk. edition, New York, 1997
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1st pbk. ed, New York, 1997 c1996
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First edition, New York, 1996
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Reprint, US, 1997
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August 15, 1997
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August 31, 1996
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<p><P>This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963&#151;the most comprehensive available&#151;showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This collection of 47 stories, many previously out-of-print, is a welcome and overdue addition that clearly shows the evolution of Hughes's literary sensibility and craft. Harper, a Spelman College professor, has assembled these stories in order of their publication and has included an appendix of early work, some of which are from Hughes's high-school literary magazine. Largely autobiographical, and set in locations around the world (but most frequently in this country), many of these stories revolve around the same themes: the ultimately demeaning patronage of whites; the challenges of realizing dreams in a world of limited opportunity; and the timeless tensions between the sexes. By turns poignant and indignant, these stories achieve power by revealing small moments that betray more universal truths. In "Slave on the Block," a dilettante white painter doesn't understand the defiance of her model, posing as a slave for sale, who leaves abruptly before the work is complete. "Professor" describes the hidden humiliation of a black educator whose imagination sustains him as he endures an evening with wealthy white patrons from whom he is seeking funds for his small college. Stories inspired by Hughes's year aboard a freighter that plied the coast of West Africa are included, as are tales from his most famous collection, The Ways of White Folk. Princeton professor Arnold Rampersand's cogent introduction places the work in context. This is a thoughtfully assembled collection, in which readers can see Hughes mature, moving from idealism and broad sentiment toward a canny, worldly wisdom. (Aug.)</p>
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Langston Hughes was a master of many literary forms - poetry, plays, essays, novels, and memoirs. But it is as a short-story writer that his talents combined in an especially vibrant way: his gift for humor and irony, his love of the vernacular, his brilliance in depicting character, and his profound perceptions about American life.
This new collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963 - the most comprehensive available - showcases Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and political concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and many have never before been collected. Included are Hughes's first stories, "Those Who Have No Turkey" and "Seventy-five Dollars," written for his high-school newspaper; his early work published in the groundbreaking African-American journals. The Crisis and The Messenger; and his later, masterful stories from Laughing to Keep from Crying, Something in Common, and The Ways of White Folks.
These stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general. They are at once poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic.
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Offers A Collection Of Stories Written Between 1919 And 1963 That Follow Hughes' Literary Development And The Growth Of His Personal And Political Concerns. Bodies In The Moonlight -- The Young Glory Of Him -- The Little Virgin -- Luani Of The Jungles -- Slave On The Block -- Cora Unashamed -- The Blues I'm Playing -- Why, You Reckon? -- Little Old Spy -- Spanish Blood -- On The Road -- Gumption -- Professor -- Big Meeting -- Trouble With The Angels -- Tragedy At The Baths -- Slice Him Down -- African Morning -- Tain't So -- One Friday Morning -- Heaven To Hell -- Breakfast In Virginia -- Saratoga Rain -- Who's Passing For Who? -- On The Way Home -- Name In The Papers -- Sailor Ashore -- Something In Common -- Mysterious Madame Shanghai -- Never Room With A Couple -- Powder-white Faces -- Pushcart Man -- Rouge High -- Patron Of The Arts -- Thank You, M'am -- Sorrow For A Midget -- Blessed Assurance -- Early Autumn -- Fine Accommodations -- The Gun -- His Last Affair -- No Place To Make Love -- Rock, Church. Langston Hughes ; Edited By Akiba Sullivan Harper ; With An Introduction By Arnold Rampersad. Includes Bibliographical References.
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<p><i>The Short Stories of Langston Hughes</i><br><br>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 artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.</p>
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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 artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.
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Langston Hughes was a prolific writer: the author of plays, poetry, novels, autobiography, and children's tales. But it is in his short stories that readers see most clearly his greatest talents--his gift for humor and irony, his love for the vernacular, his brilliance in depicting character, and his profound perceptions about America. This new collection of 47 stories, written between 1919 and 1963, follows Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his political and personal concerns
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