The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
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Author: Langston HughesEditor: Akiba Sullivan Harper
Introduction: Arnold Rampersad
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-08-15
ISBN: 0809016036
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Summary of 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.
Sometimes called the Poet Laureate of Black America, Langston Hughes was also an accomplished writer of fiction, with a novel and several collections of stories to his credit. This collection brings together nearly 50 of Hughes's best stories. Many are drawn from three earlier collections, but some are between book covers for the first time. Of special note for anyone interested in Hughes's development as a writer are three stories written when Hughes was a high school student in Cleveland.
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