Books written by Langston Hughes

  • Langston Hughes: a Collection of Poems

    Langston Hughes: A Collection of Poems Part 1 is a collection of works by Langston Hughes merged into one book. This is part one in the series.

  • Langston Hughes: a Collection of Poems

    The second book in the series of a collection of poems: Langston Hughes. The first book in this series features a collection of some of the finest works by Langston Hughes.

  • Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes

    A chronological collection of interviews with, and speeches by, the writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and, over the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, gained ...

  • Black Nativity

    ... SAID I WASN'T GONNA TELL NOBODY " ) SINGERS . I SAID I WASN'T GONNA TELL NOBODY- BUT I JUST COULDN'T KEEP IT TO MYSELF , WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR ME . YOU OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THERE WHEN HE SAVED MY SOUL ... THAT SUNDAY MORNING WHEN ...

  • Father and Son

    In “Father and Son,” Hughes reveals himself to be a writer of prose just as lasting as his poetry, and one of the true icons of modern American letters. The staggering final story in the collection The Ways of White Folks.

  • The Panther and the Lash

    Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling ...

  • Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967

    The work of Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is a celebration of the triumphant creative spirit in African-American life. From the welding of their friendship in 1925 until Hughes's death...

  • Not Without Laughter

    VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

  • The Big Sea: An Autobiography

    " Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."

  • Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    A collection of 868 poems by the author spanning five decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

  • The Weary Blues

    This celebratory edition of the classic poetry collection reminds us of Hughes's stunning achievement, speaking directly, intimately, and powerfully of Black experiences at a time when Black voices were newly being heard in American ...

  • The Best of Simple: Stories

    A selection of the author's favorite stories chosen from three of his books: "Simple Speaks his Mind," "Simple Takes a Wife," and "Simple Stakes a Claim."

  • The Best of Simple: Stories

    ... them for anything. I asks you because you be's my favorite cousin, also you come North in search of freedom, too. You got brains.' “Thank you for the compliments, I says. But I really cannot afford to pay for none. Minnie, I cannot lend you ...

  • Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

    A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer.--Ingram

  • Short Stories

    Short Stories

  • Langston Hughes-Short Stories

    Langston Hughes-Short Stories

  • The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967

    Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

  • Short Stories

    Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

    Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after The Dream Keeper was first published.