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<p><P>This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963&#151;the most comprehensive available&#151;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 poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This collection of 47 stories, many previously out-of-print, is a welcome and overdue addition that clearly shows the evolution of Hughes's literary sensibility and craft. Harper, a Spelman College professor, has assembled these stories in order of their publication and has included an appendix of early work, some of which are from Hughes's high-school literary magazine. Largely autobiographical, and set in locations around the world (but most frequently in this country), many of these stories revolve around the same themes: the ultimately demeaning patronage of whites; the challenges of realizing dreams in a world of limited opportunity; and the t

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Author

Langston Hughes; Donna Sullivan Harper; Arnold Rampersad

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809016037

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

4.34 / 5 (459 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14