The Return of Simple
- ISBN-10
- 1429924098
- ISBN-13
- 9781429924092
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-01
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Author
- Langston Hughes
Description
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have shared his readers feelings of loss and dispossession, but he also cheered them on with his wonderful wit and passion for life.
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