Vintage Hughes

By Langston Hughes

Book Overview

The perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories.

"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience." The Philadelphia Inquirer

Hughes's work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.

Vintage Hughes includes the famed poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too," "The Weary Blues," "America," "Let America Be America Again," "Dream Variations," "Young Sailor," "Afro-American Fragment," "Scottsboro," "The Negro Mother," "Good Morning Revolution," "I Dream a World," "The Heart of Harlem," "Freedom Train," "Song for Billie Holliday," "Nightmare Boogie," "Africa," "Black Panther," "Birmingham Sunday," and "UnAmerican Investigators"; and three stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: "Cora Unashamed," "Home," and "The Blues I'm Playing."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400034027
• ISBN13: 9781400034024
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

defining an American experience

Langston Hughes is part of America's soul. I bought this book to add to our writers' group library because of this. Even in our very Anglo rural community Hughes' work speaks to us and it behooves us to listen.

Excellent Survey

I just started this and, so far, it's an excellent survey of Hughes's work. Love the vibrancy & passion of his modern verse. So much history, emotion, and conviction here. If you are not familiar with his work, this might be a good start.He's vital to American Literature.