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The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes (Paperback)
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Author: Langston Hughes. Title: The Best of Simple. Format: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Release Date: 28/09/1990. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc. ISBN: 9780374521332.
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Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that t only have proved popular but are w part of a great and growing literary tradition.Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: .. .these tales are about a great many people--although they are stories about specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and t kw at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, and several Cousin Minnies--or reasonable facsimiles thereof. As Arld Rampersad has written, Simple is one of the most memorable and winning characters in the annals of American literature, justly regarded as one of Hughes's most inspired creations. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, went to Cleveland, Ohio, lived for a number of years in Chicago, and long resided in New York City's Harlem. He graduated form Lincoln University in 1929 and was awarded an horary Litt. D. in 1943. He was perhaps best kwn as a poet and the creator of Simple, but he also wrote vels, biography, history, plays (several of them Broadway hits), and children's books, and he edited several anthologies. Mr. Hughes died in 1967.Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
ISBN-100374521336
ISBN-139780374521332
eBay Product ID (ePID)103390991
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AuthorLangston Hughes
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
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Place of PublicationNew York
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Author BiographyLangston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, went to Cleveland, Ohio, lived for a number of years in Chicago, and long resided in New York City's Harlem. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1929 and was awarded an honorary Litt. D. in 1943. He was perhaps best known as a poet and the creator of Simple, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays (several of them Broadway hits), and children's books, and he edited several anthologies. Mr. Hughes died in 1967.
Country of PublicationUnited States
