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The Langston Hughes Reader: The Selected Writings of Langston Hughes


This compilation of the writings of Langston Hughes is drawn from every category of his prodigious literary achievement. It combines highlights of the novels, stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays that have made him famous with many new writings that have never before been published in book form. <p>Among the new selections are the complete libretto of his popular musical comedy <i>Simply Heavenly</i>, all of the text of his pageant <i>The Glory of Negro History</i>, a one-act play <i>Soul Gone Home</i>, and many other stories, poems, and children's lyrics. There are generous portions of his autobiographies, <i>The Big Sea</i> and <i>I Wonder as I Wander</i>, and of the incomparable Simple trilogy: <i>Simple Takes a Wife</i>, <i>Simple Speaks His Mind</i>, and <i>Simple Stakes a Claim</i>.</p> <p>Langston Hughes is an unchallenged spokesman of African Americans. With art and wit, he has defined the place of Black Americans in all of the diverse forms of American literary expression. This comprehensive anthology is crowded from cover to cover with the characteristic scenes and sentiments that have established his commanding position in world literature.</p> <p>Highlights from the novels, stories, plays, poems, songs and essays, some previously unpublished, of Langston Hughes. </p>

Author(s): Langston Hughes  

ISBN 10: 0807600571
ISBN 13: 9780807600573
Pages: 502
Format: Hardcover
Publication: September 1981
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2. African American History Four Centuries of Black Life Paperback (1990)
3. Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes), Vol. 14 Hardcover (February 2003)
4. Autobiography: The Big Sea (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes), Vol. 13 Hardcover (September 2002)
5. Best of Simple Hardcover (June 2013)
6. Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899 to 1967: The Classic Anthology Paperback (February 1969)
7. Black Misery (January 2001)
8. Black Nativity Paperback (1992/12/01 )
9. Carol of the brown king Hardcover (1998/10/01)
10. Dream Keeper and Other Poems Prebound (1996)
11. Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes), Vol. 9 Hardcover (May 2002)
12. Famous Negro Heroes of America (1958/02/01)
13. Famous Negro Music Makers Hardcover (1955)
14. Fight for Freedom Hardcover (May 2011)
15. Fight for Freedom Paperback (October 2011)
16. Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes), Vol. 10 Hardcover (September 2001)
17. Five Plays Paperback (January 1963)
18. Good Morning, Revolution Uncollected Writings of Social Protest Paperback (1981/02/01)
19. Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes), Vol. 6 Hardcover (June 2003)
20. I Wonder As I Wander Hardcover (1974/06/01)

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