Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America.
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This is a collection of short stories published in 1934. The collection, marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism, is among his best known works.
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Not Without Laughter portrays African-American life in Kansas in the 1910s, focusing on the effects of class and religion on the community.
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Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.
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This collection of 47 stories written between 1919 and 1963 showcases Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and political concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and many have never before been collected.
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In this autobiographical work Langston Hughes tells his experience of being a writer of color in Paris, and his experiences living in New York where he faced injustices surrounding systematic racism.
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