Short stories / Langston Hughes ; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 299 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0809086581 :
- Short stories. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Hughes, Langston | Available | 33111002247456 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963, from Hughes' first stories, written for his high-school magazine, to the masterful work from "Laughing to Keep from Crying, Something in Common, "and" The Ways of White Folks."
"Publication history of Hughes's short stories"--p. 295-299.
Includes bibliographical references.
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