The Langston Hughes reader.
A compilation of writings by early twentieth-century African-American author Langston Hughes, including excerpts from novels and autobiographies, short stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays.
| Uniform Title: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
George Braziller,
1958.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Local Note: |
MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | x, 501 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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| 504 | |a Bibliography of the writings of Langston Hughes (page [502]). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Short stories : The ways of white folks (1934) : Cora unashamed -- Slave on the block -- Red-headed baby -- Little dog -- Laughing to keep from crying (1952) : Who's passing for who? -- Something in common -- Spanish blood -- On the way home -- Tain't so -- One Friday morning -- Tragedy at the baths -- Big meeting -- Other stories : Thank you, ma'am -- Patron of the arts -- Poems : The weary blues (1926) : The weary blues -- The negro speaks of rivers -- Montage of a dream deferred (1951) -- Other poems : Ballad of Mary's son -- Acceptance -- Pastoral -- Dear lovely death -- Poet to bigot -- Testament -- Conservatory student struggles with higher instrumentation -- Elderly politicians -- Freedom's plow -- Translations : Epigram, by Armand Lanusse (Creole-New Orleans) -- Verse written in the album of mademoiselle, by Pierre Dalcour (Creole-New Orleans) -- Flute players, by Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (French Madagascar) -- Guinea, by Jacques Roumain (Haiti) -- She left herself one evening, by Leon Damas (French Guiana) -- I, by 'Francisca' (Mexico) -- Opinions of the new student, by Regino Pedroso (Cuba) -- Dead soldier, by Nicolas Guillen (Cuba) -- Children's poetry : Introduction: children and poetry -- 18 poems for children -- Song lyrics : Introduction: songs called the blues -- Red sun blues -- Five o'clock blues -- Lonely house (from 'street scene') -- Requiem (from 'street scene') -- I dream a world (from 'troubled island') -- Novels and humor : Not without laughter (1930) : Guitar -- Simple speaks his mind (1950) : A word from 'town and country' -- Temptation -- Family tree -- There ought to be a law -- Income tax -- Spring time -- Seeing double -- For the sake of argument -- Race relations -- Simple takes a wife (1952) : Science says it's a lie -- Fancy free -- That powerful drop -- Midsummer madness -- Staggering figures -- That word black -- Dear Dr. Butts -- Simple stakes a claim (1957) : Bang-up big end -- Big round world -- Two sides not enough -- Depression in the cards -- Out-loud silent -- Jim Crow's funeral -- Reason and right -- Simple stashes back -- An auto-obituary -- Chips on the shoulder -- Plays : Soul gone home: a one-act play (1937) -- Simply heavenly (1957) -- Autobiography : The big sea (1940) : Beyond sandy hook -- Negro -- Salvation -- The mother of the Gracchi -- Central high -- Abrupt encounter -- Father -- Back home -- I've known rivers -- Mexico again -- Promenade -- Means of escape -- Card for Cuernavaca -- Bullfights -- Tragedy in Toluca -- Departure -- When the negro was in vogue -- Harlem literati -- Gurdjieff in Harlem -- Parties -- Downtown -- Shows -- Poetry -- I wonder as I wander (1956) : Mary McLeod Bethune -- Tragedy at Hampton -- Color at chapel hill -- Plantation hospitality -- Warning in Mississippi -- Personal autograph -- Making poetry pay -- Bombs in Barcelona -- Sweet wine of Valencia -- Breakfast in Madrid -- Harlem swing and Spanish shells -- Death and laughter -- Body here, leg there -- General Franco's moors -- Artists under siege -- How to eat a cat -- Salud Madrid -- Pageant : The glory of negro history -- Articles and speeches : A speech at the national assembly of authors and dramatists: the negro writer's position in America -- Memories of Christmas -- My most humiliating Jim Crow experience -- Ten thousand beds -- How to be a bad writer (in ten easy lessons) -- Jazz as communication -- Sweet chariots of this world -- The fun of being black -- My America -- Bibliography of the writings of Langston Hughes. | |
| 520 | |a A compilation of writings by early twentieth-century African-American author Langston Hughes, including excerpts from novels and autobiographies, short stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays. | ||
| 590 | |a MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis. | ||
| 590 | |a MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket. | ||
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