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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 299 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0809086581 :
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s):
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
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Hughes, Langston Available 33111002247456
Total holds: 0

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

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