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Tambourines to Glory
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.00Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes?s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons. For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War?era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory ... more...
The Return of Simple
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 19.99Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he also cheered them on with his wonderful wit and passion for life. more...
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
Random House Children's Books 2011; US$ 8.99Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it... more...
The Panther and the Lash
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95I am the American heartbreak? The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe? The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. ? Langston Hughes, ?American Heartbreak? From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America?s acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience?and suffering?of African Americans in a... more...
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues , in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick;... more...
The Ways of White Folks
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Not Without Laughter
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, poet Hughes wrote only one novel ? but it is an incredibly powerful and moving work. This 1930s coming-of-age tale, which unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society. more...
Remember Me to Harlem
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of... more...
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997; US$ 16.99This 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... more...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 38.99One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries. more...
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