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Short stories / Langston Hughes ; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.

Title
Short stories / Langston Hughes ; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Author
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Publication
New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Harper, Donna Sullivan
  • Rampersad, Arnold
Description
xix, 299 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns.
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Alternative Title
Short stories.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Bodies in the moonlight -- The young glory of him -- The little virgin -- Luani of the jungles -- Slave on the block -- Cora unashamed -- The blues I'm playing -- Why, you reckon? -- Little old spy -- Spanish blood -- On the road -- Gumption -- Professor -- Big meeting -- Trouble with the angels -- Tragedy at the baths -- Slice him down -- African morning -- Tain't so -- One Friday morning -- Heaven to hell -- Breakfast in Virginia -- Saratoga rain -- Who's passing for who? -- On the way home -- Name in the papers -- Sailor ashore -- Something in common -- Mysterious Madame Shanghai -- Never room with a couple -- Powder-white faces -- Pushcart man -- Rouge High -- Patron of the arts -- Thank you, m'am -- Sorrow for a midget -- Blessed assurance -- Early autumn -- Fine accommodations -- The gun -- His last affair -- No place to make love -- Rock, church.
ISBN
  • 0809035413 (alk. paper)
  • 0809086581 (cloth)
LCCN
^^^95019554^
OCLC
  • 32548335
  • SCSB-11148813
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library