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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 not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition. Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: "...these tales are about a great many people--although they are stories about no specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, and several Cousin Minnies--or reasonable facsimiles thereof.". As Arnold Rampersad has written, Simple is "one of the most memorable and winning characters in the annals of American literature, justly regarded as one of Hughes's most inspired creations.".

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Author

Langston Hughes; Bernhard Nast; Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry

Publisher

New York: Hill and Wang

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374521332

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Poetry, Social Science

Rating

4.39 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14