wyszukanych pozycji: 50
The Ways of White Folks
ISBN: 9780679728177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and...
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73,36 zł |
Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62
ISBN: 9780252064746 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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101,89 zł |
Not Without Laughter
ISBN: 9781684224777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,38 zł |
Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs (Lh9): Volume 9
ISBN: 9780826213945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Among the most prolific of American writers, Langston Hughes gained international attention and acclaim in nearly every genre of writing. While scholars and general readers have enjoyed relatively easy access to most of his writings, Hughes's work in one genre "the essay" has gone largely unnoticed. From his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished "Black Writers in a Troubled World," which he wrote a year before his death, Hughes used the essay form as a vehicle through which to comment on the contemporary... Among the most prolific of American writers, Langston Hughes gained international attention and acclaim in nearly every genre of writing. While sch... |
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375,59 zł |
Short Stories
ISBN: 9780809016037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Short Stories of Langston Hughes 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. 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. The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive avai... |
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81,99 zł |
Not Without Laughter
ISBN: 9781784877392 / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,58 zł |
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967
ISBN: 9780316380317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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112,16 zł |
Lullaby (for a Black Mother) Board Book
ISBN: 9780358566151 / Angielski / Kartonowa (Board Books) / 2021 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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38,80 zł |
I, Too, Sing America
ISBN: 9781499812701 / Angielski / Kartonowa (Board Books) / 2021 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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38,80 zł |
The Later Simple Stories (Lh8): Volume 8
ISBN: 9780826214096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Volume 8 of "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, " the genial Harlem everyman, Jesse B. Semple returns with his more cosmopolitan bar buddy, Ananias Boyd. Social climber Joyce Lane is now Mrs. Jesse B. Semple, and Simple has minimized his flirtatious contacts with other women. Despite these ongoing characters, the later Simple stories are very different from the earlier Simple tales. The later stories evoke the historical and social context within which they were written, a politically dangerous time for the fictional adventures and fantasies of the main characters. "The Later... In Volume 8 of "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, " the genial Harlem everyman, Jesse B. Semple returns with his more cosmopolitan bar buddy,... |
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262,64 zł |
The Ways of White Folks
ISBN: 9781784877415 / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,58 zł |
The Best of Simple: Stories
ISBN: 9780374521332 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition. Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: ..".these tales are... Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple ... |
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73,36 zł |
Lullaby (for a Black Mother)
ISBN: 9780547362656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?" With a few simple words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between an African American mother and her baby. The award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls's painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness and whimsy. In the end, readers will find a rare photo of baby Hughes and his mother, a biographical note, further reading, and the complete lullaby. Like little love-ones, this beautiful book is a treasure.
"My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?" With a few simple words as smooth as ... |
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77,64 zł |
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (Lh6): Volume 6
ISBN: 9780826214775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theater and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his rich and complex contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes's plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance, including operas, musicals, radio plays, ballet librettos, and song lyrics, all of which demonstrate his strong determination to inject an African American presence into a range of cultural forms.If Hughes's contributions to African American theater in the 1930s were... Although Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theater and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his rich and ... |
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348,76 zł |
The Poems 1921-1940 (Lh1): Volume 1
ISBN: 9780826213396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance. The Weary Blues announced the arrival of a rare voice in American poetry. A literary descendant of Walt Whitman ("I, too, sing America," Hughes wrote), he chanted the joys and sorrows of black America in unprecedented language. A gifted lyricist, he offered rhythms and cadences that epitomized the particularities of African... Volume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, ... |
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262,64 zł |
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
ISBN: 9780520285330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes's poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window...
Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays reson...
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429,24 zł |
The Panther & the Lash
ISBN: 9780679736592 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as -Prime, - -Motto, - -Dream Deferred, - -Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895, - -Still Here, - -Birmingham Sunday.- - History, - -Slave, - -Warning, - and -Daybreak in Alabama.- Sometimes...
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and...
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77,68 zł |
The Plays to 1942 (Lh5): Mulatto to the Sun Do Move Volume 5
ISBN: 9780826213693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. But someday somebody'll Langston Hughes is least known for his theatrical endeavors, yet his attention to the theater was lifelong. His love of the stage began in childhood, and from the late 1920s on he was continually writing plays, for black community theater, for theater companies he established himself, and for the Broadway and off-Broadway stage. His early plays endeavor to provide "authentic" representations... But someday somebody'll |
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348,76 zł |
An Earth Song (Petite Poems)
ISBN: 9781951836931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,01 zł |
Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
ISBN: 9780375405518 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experie...
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86,31 zł |