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Five Plays

by Langston Hughes

ISBN13: 9780253201218
ISBN10: 0253201217
Condition: Standard

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No writer more effectively captured the spirit of Negro life in America, especially in the urban North, than Langston Hughes. The world portrayed in his drama is quite different from that of any other writer, and its discovery is an entertaining, wonderful, and enlightening experience.

Synopsis

"His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down... " --Long Beach Press-Telegraph

Introduction

Mulatto

Soul Gone Home

Little Ham

Simply Heavenly

Tambourines To Glory

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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780253201218
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 01/22/1963
Publisher:: Indiana University Press
Pages:: 280
Height:: .90IN
Width:: 5.50IN
Thickness:: 1.00
Number of Units:: 1
Publication Country:: United States
Copyright Year:: 1963
Series Volume:: 83-2
UPC Code:: 2800253201210
Editor:: Webster Smalley
Author:: Webster Smalley
Author:: Langston Hughes
Ed:: Edited with an Introduction by Webster S
Subject:: American drama (dramatic works by one author)
Subject:: Drama-American Anthology
Subject:: Afro-Americans -- Drama.
Subject:: Afro-americans
Subject:: African Americans