{"product_id":"vintage-hughes-paperback","title":"Vintage Hughes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLangston Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe perfect introduction to one of the most \u003cb\u003eimportant writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHughes's work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eVintage Hughes \u003c\/i\u003eincludes the famed 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Ways of White Folks: \u003c\/i\u003e \"Cora Unashamed,\" \"Home,\" and \"The Blues I'm Playing.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. \u003cbr\u003e\"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.\" --\"The Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cbr\u003eArguably 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. \u003cbr\u003eVintage Hughes\" 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 The Ways of White Folks: \"Cora Unashamed,\" \"Home,\" and \"The Blues I'm Playing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. By the time he enrolled in Columbia University he had already launched his literary career with his poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, published in \u003ci\u003eCrisis\u003c\/i\u003e in 1921. Often regarded as the poet laureate of Harlem, Hughes was a cental figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Known for his insightful, colorful portayals of black life in America from the 1920s to the 1960s, Hughes published more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, short stories, children's poetry, musicals, operans, autobiography, scripts, and essays. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout hs life Hughes was a devoted fan of black music, and he fushed together jazz and blues with traditional verse in his first two books, \u003ci\u003eThe Weary Blues \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFine Clothes to the Jew\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also well known for his creation of the fictional character Jess B. Semple, nicknamed Simple, who satrized racial injustices. In 1929, Hughes earned his B.A. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he was later presented with an honorary Litt.D. Over the course of his life, Hughes was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosenwald Fellowship, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant. Hughes died in 1967. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough his work condeming racism and celebrating African-American culture, Langston Hughes becaomse one of the most influential and esteemed writers of the twentieth-century.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731759468607,"sku":"9781400034024","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7c59ec49318a6156e7ec6250cb812522.webp?v=1765130007","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/vintage-hughes-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}