
Not Without Laughter
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Throughout hs life Hughes was a devoted fan of black music, and he fushed together jazz and blues with traditional verse in his first two books, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew. He was also well known for his creation of the fictional character Jess B. Semple, nicknamed Simple, who satrized racial injustices. In 1929, Hughes earned his B.A. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he was later presented with an honorary Litt.D. Over the course of his life, Hughes was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosenwald Fellowship, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant. Hughes died in 1967.
Through his work condeming racism and celebrating African-American culture, Langston Hughes becaomse one of the most influential and esteemed writers of the twentieth-century.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I Storm
- II Conversation
- III Jimboy's Letter
- IV Thursday Afternoon
- V Guitar
- VI Work
- VII White Folks
- VIII Dance
- IX Carnival
- X Punishment
- XI School
- XII Hard Winter
- XIII Christmas
- XIV Return
- XV One by One
- XVI Nothing but Love
- XVII Barber-Shop
- XVIII Children's Day
- XIX Ten Dollars and Costs
- XX Hey, Boy!
- XXI Note to Harriett
- XXII Beyond the Jordan
- XXIII Tempy's House
- XXIV A Shelf of Books
- XXV Pool Hall
- XXVI The Doors of Life
- XXVII Beware of Women
- XXVIII Chicago
- XXIX Elevator
- XXX Princess of the Blues
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