New Releases by Langston Hughes

Stories capturing “the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism” by “a great American writer” (Kirkus Reviews). This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963—the most comprehensive available—showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns in the decades that preceded the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes’s uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general. “[Hughes’s fiction] manifests his ‘wonder at the world.’ As these stories reveal, that wonder has lost little of its shine.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

When he and his parents move to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco, Kenny makes friends with Juanito Perez, and the two share many adventures with Juanito''s special papier-mache toy, Tito.

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. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney''s scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes''s inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.

An introduction to jazz music by one of our finest writers. Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and longtime jazz enthusiast, wrote The First Book of Jazz as a homage to the music that inspired him. The roll of African drums, the dancing quadrilles of old New Orleans, the work songs of the river ports, the field shanties of the cotton plantations, the spirituals, the blues, the off-beats of ragtime -- in a history as exciting as jazz rhythms, Hughes describes how each of these played a part in the extraordinary history of jazz.

A collection of columns written by Langston Hughes between 1942 and 1962 for the "Chicago Defender," offering his views on international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture.

Depicts a Black family''s attempts to deal with life in a small Kansas town.

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes''s poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

Twenty-six short poems introduce animals for each letter of the alphabet, from Ape to Zebra.

First published in 1932, this book describes the rustic life that existed in Haiti during the 1930s. Written with simplicity, realism and poetic charm the reader follows the experiences and adventures of two children moving from their home in the hills to a town by the sea. BandW woodcut illus.

Since his death in 1967, Langston Hughes''s reputation has continued to grow. He is now widely regarded as one of the foremost poets of his time and one of the most eloquent and beloved spokesmen of his people. Remembered by many as a fighter for the poor and downtrodden, Hughes in his early work was outspoken, but he tempered his views later, and some of the early social protest writings receded into the shadows. Faith Berry rediscovered the material presented in "Good Morning Revolution". -- From publisher''s description.

A teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion.

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 in 1967, this volume gathers the best of the forty-two years of correspondence between them. The first letters, written in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, witness the struggle of two young writers searching for a voice and an identity. By 1941, both Bontemps and Hughes had achieved a certain degree of success, and had become increasingly involved in racial and social struggles. Finally, in the period between 1959 and 1967, we see them react to the civil rights movement. This fascinating collection makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of twentieth century American culture and one of its most vital components, the African-American heritage which these two correspondents did so much to create. --From book cover.

Reprint. Previously published: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950.

Stories of Negro life in Harlem as told through a series of conversations.

"Reprinted 1976 by special arrangement"--T.p. verso.

Most of these works, rediscovered by Faith Berry as she researched her biography of Hughes, have never been collected in book form. Written mainly when Hughes was a young man and representing some of his most incisive and deeply-felt work, these poems, stories and articles were originally published in small magazines between 1925 and 1957.

A wry and humorous soul portrait of what it is like to grow up black in America.

A pictorial history of the Negro in American entertainment.

Five plays representing Hughes'' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.

THE STORY: The New York Journal-American, called SIMPLY HEAVENLY ...a treat. This story by Langston Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite, seems...to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these neighbors-to-

A compilation of writings by early twentieth-century African-American author Langston Hughes, including excerpts from novels and autobiographies, short stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays.

Told through the eyes of the grandmotherly Sister Mary Bradley, this is a heartwarming description of life in Harlem.