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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Harper, Donna Sullivan.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

Short stories, American.

Short stories, American--African American authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xix, 299 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.

Summary:

Langston Hughes was a prolific writer: the author of plays, poetry, novels, autobiography, and children's tales. But it is in his short stories that readers see most clearly his greatest talents--his gift for humor and irony, his love for the vernacular, his brilliance in depicting character, and his profound perceptions about America. This new collection of 47 stories, written between 1919 and 1963, follows Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his political and personal concerns.

Notes:

"Publication history of Hughes's short stories": P. 295-299.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0809086581

OCLC:

32548335