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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Short stories. Selections
Main Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Other Authors: Harper, Donna Sullivan
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:xix, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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
  • Mary Winosky
  • Those who have no turkey
  • Seventy-five dollars
  • The childhood of Jimmy.