Langston Hughes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction...
2) My people
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, photographs ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
20244.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated adaptation of a Langston Hughes poem where a child delights as the world around him awakens from winter and comes to life with the long-awaited arrival of spring and new beginnings of all kinds.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 250L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares...An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 299 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Langston Hughes was a master of many literary forms - poetry, plays, essays, novels, and memoirs. But it is as a short-story writer that his talents combined in an especially vibrant way: his gift for humor and irony, his love of the vernacular, his brilliance in depicting character, and his profound perceptions about American life. This new collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963 - the most comprehensive available - showcases...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and--above all--literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his...
17) Short stories
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English