Vintage Hughes (Vintage Readers Literature Series)

<p>Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.</p> <p>“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></p> <p>Arguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.</p> <p><b>Vintage Hughes</b> includes the poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too,” “The Weary Blues,” “America,” “Let America Be America Again,” “Dream Variations,” “Young Sailor,” “Afro-American Fragment,” “Scottsboro,” “The Negro Mother,” “Good Morning Revolution,” “I Dream a World,” “The Heart of Harlem,” “Freedom Train,” “Song for Billie Holliday,” “Nightmare Boogie,” “Africa,” “Black Panther,” “Birmingham Sunday,” and “UnAmerican Investigators”; and three stories from the collection <b>The Ways of White Folks</b>: “Cora Unashamed,” “Home,” and “The Blues I’m Playing.”</p>

Author(s): Langston Hughes  

ISBN 10: 1400034027
ISBN 13: 9781400034024
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Publication: January 2004