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      Short Stories of Langston Hughes

      by Langston Hughes
      Published
      Aug 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      320
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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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      Aug 1997 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780809016037 ISBN10 0809016036
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      Aug 1995 Hill & Wang ISBN13 9780809035410 ISBN10 0809035413
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      Aug 1996 Hill & Wang ISBN13 9780809086580 ISBN10 0809086581
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      Aug 1997 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781429924115 ISBN10 142992411X
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      Aug 1997 Hill and Wang ISBN10 B004ZM06TE
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