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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777387403321

Autore

Hughes Langston <1902-1967.>

Titolo

The early simple stories [[electronic resource] /] / edited with an introduction by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8262-6385-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

The collected works of Langston Hughes ; ; v.7

Altri autori (Persone)

HarperDonna Sullivan

Disciplina

818.5209

Soggetti

African Americans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""A Note on the Text""; ""Simple Speaks His Mind""; ""Contents""; ""Feet Live Their Own Life""; ""Landladies""; ""Simple Prays a Prayer""; ""Conversation on the Corner""; ""Family Tree""; ""A Toast to Harlem""; ""Simple and His Sins""; ""Temptation""; ""Wooing the Muse""; ""Summer Ain't Simple""; ""A Word from Town & Country""; ""Matter for a Book""; ""Surprise""; ""Vacation""; ""Letting Off Steam""; ""Jealousy""; ""Banquet in Honor""; ""After Hours""; ""A Veteran Falls""; ""High Bed""; ""Final Fear""

""There Ought to Be a Law""""Income Tax""; ""No Alternative""; ""Question Period""; ""Lingerie""; ""Spring Time""; ""Last Whipping""; ""Nickel for the Phone""; ""Equality and Dogs""; ""Seeing Double""; ""Right Simple""; ""Ways and Means""; ""The Law""; ""Confused""; ""Something to Lean On""; ""In the Dark""; ""For the Sake of Argument""; ""Simple Pins On Medals""; ""A Ball of String""; ""Blue Evening""; ""When a Man Sees Red""; ""Race Relations""; ""Possum" Race" and Face""; ""A Letter from Baltimore""; ""Simple Takes a Wife""; ""Contents""; ""Seven Rings""; ""What Can a Man Say?""

""Empty Room""""Better than a Pillow""; ""Explain That to Me""; ""Baltimore Womens""; ""Less than a Damn""; ""Picture for Her Dresser""; ""Cocktail Sip""; ""Apple Strudel""; ""Belles and Bells""; ""Bop""; ""A Hat Is a Woman""; ""Formals and Funerals""; ""Science Says It's a Lie""; ""Joyce Objects""; ""The Necessaries""; ""Second-Hand Clothes""; ""Fancy Free""; ""That Powerful Drop""; ""Never No More""; ""Simply Heavenly""; ""Midsummer Madness""; ""Morals Is Her Middle Name""; ""Party in the



Bronx""; ""Last Thing at Night""; ""They Come and They Go""; ""A Million-and One""; ""Two Loving Arms""

""All in the Family""""Kick for Punt""; ""Night in Harlem""; ""Staggering Figures""; ""Tickets and Takers""; ""Subway to Jamaica""; ""No Tea for the Fever""; ""That Word""; ""Boys" Birds" and Bees""; ""On the Warpath""; ""A Hearty Amen""; ""Colleges and Color""; ""Psychologies""; ""Must Have a Seal""; ""Shadow of the Blues""; ""Nothing but Roomers""; ""Here Comes Old Me""; ""Strictly for Charity""; ""Once in a Wife-Time""; ""Whiter than Snow""; ""Simple Santa""; ""Present for Joyce""; ""Christmas Song""; ""Tied in a Bow""; ""Sometimes I Wonder""; ""Dear Dr. Butts""; ""Castles in the Sand""

""Four Rings""""Simply Love""; ""Notes""; ""Index of Titles""