{"title":"Langston Hughes","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the poignant and powerful poetry and prose of Langston Hughes. A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes captures the Black experience with profound insight and lyrical beauty. Discover his essential works.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ways-of-white-folks-book-langston-hughes-9780679728177","title":"The Ways of White Folks","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and '30s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Stories included in this collection:\u003cbr\u003e \"Cora Unashamed\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Slave on the Block\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Home\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Passing\"\u003cbr\u003e \"A Good Job Gone\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Rejuvenation Through Joy\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Blues I'm Playing\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Red-Headed Baby\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Poor Little Black Fellow\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Little Dog\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Berry\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Mother and Child\"\u003cbr\u003e \"One Christmas Eve\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Father and Son\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49518534951185,"sku":"CIN0679728171A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579947131153,"sku":"GOR002059035","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49865610363153,"sku":"CIN0679728171G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50185418735889,"sku":"CIN0679728171VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50984048918801,"sku":"NIN9780679728177","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51118589575441,"sku":"GOR005578583","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679728171.jpg?v=1770373568"},{"product_id":"hughes-poems-book-langston-hughes-9780375405518","title":"Hughes: Poems","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49522480382225,"sku":"CIN0375405518G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49671086899473,"sku":"GOR007193727","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469774917905,"sku":"CIN0375405518VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51068067250449,"sku":"NIN9780375405518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375405518.jpg?v=1750878672"},{"product_id":"big-sea-book-langston-hughes-9780809015498","title":"The Big Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book is the chronicle of a bright and lively artistic ear that brought the African-American people full into the twentieth century. It is a wonderful book!\" --\u003ci\u003eAmiri Baraka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In his incisive introduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, an American classic, Arnold Rampersad writes: \"This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the \"Harlem Renaissance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49522587762961,"sku":"CIN0809015498G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603419308305,"sku":"GOR003128936","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49723771257105,"sku":"CIN0809015498A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50186528194833,"sku":"CIN0809015498VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007823085841,"sku":"NIN9780809015498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53334736830737,"sku":"GOR008781687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0809015498.jpg?v=1750947131"},{"product_id":"dream-keeper-and-other-poems-book-langston-hughes-9780679883470","title":"The Dream Keeper and Other Poems","description":"Illus. in black-and-white. This classic collection of poetry is available in a handsome new gift edition that includes seven additional poems written after \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e was first published. In a larger format, featuring Brian Pinkney's scratchboard art on every spread, Hughes's inspirational message to young people is as relevant today as it was in 1932.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530495566097,"sku":"CIN0679883479G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577114272017,"sku":"GOR006258242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478951727377,"sku":"CIN0679883479VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478951956753,"sku":"CIN0679883479A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51537095196945,"sku":"NIN9780679883470","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53148076409105,"sku":"GOR006576109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679883479.jpg?v=1751295617"},{"product_id":"not-without-laughter-book-langston-hughes-9781784877392","title":"Not Without Laughter","description":"VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES  Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.  'White peoples maybe mistreats you an' hates you, but when you hates 'em back, you's de one what's hurted, 'cause hate makes yo' heart ugly - that's all it does'  Sandy's in the fifth grade when he's forced to sit on the back row away from his white classmates and denied entry to a new amusement park. His grandmother, who is raising him alongside his mother and aunt, tells him that love is the only thing to make room for in his heart. But it's Sandy's discovery of literature that inspires him to continue his education and make sense of the unjust world he inhabits in the debut novel from one of the foremost pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance.  '[Hughes] gives his readers... a guide for careful consideration of the lives of everyday black people. Such a guide is still useful to readers and writers today. Perhaps now more than ever' Angela Flournoy,  New York Times","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535078891793,"sku":"GOR012964166","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49749289697553,"sku":"NGR9781784877392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52432610984209,"sku":"NLS9781784877392","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784877395.jpg?v=1751248266"},{"product_id":"sail-away-book-langston-hughes-9781481430852","title":"Sail Away","description":"A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe great African-American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African-American artist Ashley Bryan, who's spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea. Their talents combine in this windswept collection of illustrated poems--from The Negro Speaks of Rivers to Seascape, from Sea Calm to Sea Charm-- that celebrates all things oceanic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537956020497,"sku":"GOR009351270","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49888848314641,"sku":"CIN1481430858G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50305767244049,"sku":"CIN1481430858VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1481430858.jpg?v=1751422659"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-book-langston-hughes-9781852421274","title":"Selected Poems","description":"For over 40 years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. Selected Poems is made up of Hughes' own choice of his poetry, published first in 1959.  It includes all of Hughes' best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'.  With the advantage of hindsight, it is now easy to see that - for his poems, his jazz lyrics, and his prose - Langston Hughes was one of the great artists of the 20th century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49545842524433,"sku":"GOR001779858","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661098754321,"sku":"GOR002559002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49667061743889,"sku":"GOR003954377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50226667290897,"sku":"GOR010167491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421274.jpg?v=1751443349"},{"product_id":"vintage-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9781400034024","title":"Vintage Hughes","description":"Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. \u003cbr\u003eLangston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience. --The Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cbr\u003eArguably the most important writer to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, Langston Hughes was a great poet and a shrewd and lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. \u003cbr\u003eVintage Hughes includes the poems The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I, Too, The Weary Blues, America, Let America Be America Again, Dream Variations, Young Sailor, Afro-American Fragment, Scottsboro, The Negro Mother, Good Morning Revolution, I Dream a World, The Heart of Harlem, Freedom Train, Song for Billie Holliday, Nightmare Boogie, Africa, Black Panther, Birmingham Sunday, and UnAmerican Investigators; and three stories from the collection The Ways of White Folks: Cora Unashamed, Home, and The Blues I'm Playing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553382867217,"sku":"GOR005733077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560238915857,"sku":"GOR009565548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50098130092305,"sku":"CIN1400034027G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379915952401,"sku":"CIN1400034027A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50419634536721,"sku":"CIN1400034027VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51521110212881,"sku":"NIN9781400034024","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1400034027.jpg?v=1751427307"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-langston-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9780679764083","title":"The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were \"at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture\" (\u003ci\u003eOPRAH Magazine).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as \"Goodbye Christ\" that were once suppressed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49554330583313,"sku":"GOR005840947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643036410129,"sku":"GOR006308249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49648457777425,"sku":"CIN0679764089G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49979724988689,"sku":"CIN0679764089A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50427597685009,"sku":"GOR010966613","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005540860177,"sku":"NIN9780679764083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52104887599377,"sku":"CIN0679764089VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53477195055377,"sku":"GOR005845732","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679764089.jpg?v=1750945039"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-langston-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9780679728184","title":"Selected Poems of Langston Hughes","description":"\u003cb\u003eLangston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America--the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who \"rushed the boots of Washington\"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in \"the raffle of night.\" They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out \"wonder and pain and terror--and the marrow of the bone of life.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The collection includes \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers,\" \"The Weary Blues,\" \"Still Here,\" \"Song for a Dark Girl,\" \"Montage of a Dream Deferred,\" and \"Refugee in America.\"  It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49564686450961,"sku":"CIN067972818XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49921673494801,"sku":"GOR002348584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50176233111825,"sku":"CIN067972818XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514004967697,"sku":"GOR002052997","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50984048951569,"sku":"NIN9780679728184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51565818052881,"sku":"GOR014330721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52104814461201,"sku":"CIN067972818XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067972818X.jpg?v=1773742714"},{"product_id":"weary-blues-book-langston-hughes-9780385352970","title":"The Weary Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis celebratory edition of the classic poetry collection reminds us of Hughes's stunning achievement, speaking directly, intimately, and powerfully of Black experiences at a time when Black voices were newly being heard in American literature. * With an introduction by poet Kevin Young.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beginning with the opening \"Proem\" (prologue poem) Huges writes, \"I am a Negro: \/ Black as the night is black, \/ Black like the depths of my Africa.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, \"His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race...Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal,\" and, he concludes, they are the expression of \"an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature.\" That illusive nature darts among these early lines and begins to reveal itself, with precocious confidence and clarity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a new introduction to the work, the poet and editor Kevin Young suggests that Hughes, who was 24 at the time of the original publication, from this very first moment is \"celebrating, critiquing, and completing the American dream,\" and that he manages to take Walt Whitman's American \"I\" and write himself into it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We find here not only such classics as \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and the great twentieth-century anthem that begins \"I, too, sing America,\" but also the poet's shorter lyrics and fancies, which dream just as deeply. \"Bring me all of your \/ Heart melodies,\" the young Hughes offers, \"That I may wrap them \/ In a blue cloud-cloth \/ Away from the too-rough fingers \/ Of the world.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49566959862033,"sku":"GOR011729520","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50310605308177,"sku":"CIN0385352972G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694914240785,"sku":"CIN0385352972VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53193539191057,"sku":"NIN9780385352970","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385352972.jpg?v=1750844740"},{"product_id":"my-people-book-langston-hughes-9781416935407","title":"My People","description":"Langston Hughes's spare yet eloquent tribue to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Charles R. Smith Jr. interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the beauty, and the soul of being a black American today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581283377425,"sku":"GOR006709764","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50153337422097,"sku":"CIN1416935401G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50273382236433,"sku":"CIN1416935401A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50558836506897,"sku":"CIN1416935401VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50987496734993,"sku":"NIN9781416935407","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1416935401.jpg?v=1750987163"},{"product_id":"best-short-stories-by-black-writers-book-langston-hughes-9780316380317","title":"The Best Short Stories by Black Writers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright -- edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 1967, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Short Stories by Black Writers\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timeless and unforgettable portrait of the tragedy, comedy, triumph, and suffering that were part of African American life from 1899 to 1967. ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587290997009,"sku":"GOR006840779","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725964452113,"sku":"CIN0316380318G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49865580970257,"sku":"CIN0316380318VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50120422785297,"sku":"CIN0316380318A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001003901201,"sku":"NIN9780316380317","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0316380318.jpg?v=1751102290"},{"product_id":"lullaby-for-a-black-mother-book-langston-hughes-9780547362656","title":"Lullaby (for a Black Mother)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith graceful words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between a mother and her baby. This picture book edition is a gift to share.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAward-winning illustrator Sean Qualls's painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"My little dark baby, \/ My little earth-thing, \/ My little love-one, \/ What shall I sing \/ For your lullaby?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590642442513,"sku":"GOR013417937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50288276144401,"sku":"CIN054736265XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325579755793,"sku":"CIN054736265XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51515511406865,"sku":"NIN9780547362656","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/054736265X.jpg?v=1751230358"},{"product_id":"short-stories-book-langston-hughes-9780809016037","title":"The Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Short Stories of Langston Hughes,\u003c\/i\u003e written between 1919 and 1963, showcases the author's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49602113077521,"sku":"GOR004245379","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49780123500817,"sku":"CIN0809016036G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50245395054865,"sku":"CIN0809016036VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50510914683153,"sku":"CIN0809016036A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007741067537,"sku":"NIN9780809016037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51838579376401,"sku":"NGR9780809016037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0809016036.jpg?v=1750745303"},{"product_id":"poetry-for-young-people-langston-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9781454943754","title":"Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes","description":"Celebrate 100 years of Langston Hughes’s powerful poetry. A Coretta Scott King Honor Award recipient, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes includes 26 of the poet’s most influential pieces, including: “Mother to Son”; “My People”; “Words Like Freedom”; “I, Too”; and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”—Hughes’s first published piece, which was originally released in June 1921. This collection is curated and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, two leading poetry experts. It also features gallery-quality art by Benny Andrews and a new foreword by Renée Watson, a Newbery Honor Award recipient and founder of the I, Too Arts Collective.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656662786321,"sku":"GOR011798825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50032436150545,"sku":"CIN1454943750G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52789580726545,"sku":"CIN1454943750VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53031346864401,"sku":"NGR9781454943754","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1454943750.jpg?v=1780568234"},{"product_id":"not-without-laughter-book-langston-hughes-9780486454481","title":"Not without Laughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eA shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern literature's most revered African American authors. Although best known for his poetry, Hughes produced in \u003ci\u003eNot Without Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e a powerful and pioneering classic novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, \u003ci\u003eNot Without Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49659589820689,"sku":"GOR005375406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49724840476945,"sku":"CIN0486454487G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50203883176209,"sku":"GOR012913446","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50238869143825,"sku":"CIN0486454487A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50258297061649,"sku":"GOR005083549","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50913937391889,"sku":"CIN0486454487VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52651219419409,"sku":"NIN9780486454481","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486454487.jpg?v=1750814859"},{"product_id":"colllected-poems-of-langston-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9780679426318","title":"The Colllected Poems of Langston Hughes","description":"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.--Boston Globe \u003cbr\u003eSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. \u003cbr\u003eAlongside such famous works as The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as Goodbye Christ that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49671240548625,"sku":"CIN0679426310G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49758592106769,"sku":"CIN0679426310A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51379239649553,"sku":"CIN0679426310VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52326374310161,"sku":"GOR014505507","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679426310.jpg?v=1751136668"},{"product_id":"langston-hughes-book-langston-hughes-9781402718458","title":"Langston Hughes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49677276479761,"sku":"CIN1402718454G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49943541678353,"sku":"CIN1402718454VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50298471776529,"sku":"GOR006468504","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53399639523601,"sku":"CIN1402718454A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1402718454.jpg?v=1750890172"},{"product_id":"voice-of-l-hughes-cd-0093074700129","title":"Voice Of L. Hughes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49699203678481,"sku":"DVDB000001DOHVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B000001DOH.jpg?v=1751161189"},{"product_id":"that-is-my-dream-book-langston-hughes-9780399550171","title":"That Is My Dream!","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Dream Variation,\" one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of\u003ci\u003eFloat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo fling my arms wide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn some place of the sun,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo whirl and to dance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTill the white day is done....\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life-one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant-and necessary-today as when it was first written.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728522027281,"sku":"NGR9780399550171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50228372603153,"sku":"CIN0399550178G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694299480337,"sku":"CIN0399550178VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52111260188945,"sku":"NIN9780399550171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52610250932497,"sku":"GOR012051375","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0399550178.jpg?v=1750696768"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-book-langston-hughes-9781788164511","title":"Selected Poems","description":"With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi.  For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959.  It includes all of his best known poems including 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'The Weary Blues', 'Song for Billie Holiday', 'Black Maria', 'Magnolia Flowers', 'Lunch in a Jim Crow Car' and 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'.   A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is now seen as one of the great chroniclers of black American experience - and one of the great artists of the twentieth century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737937551633,"sku":"NGR9781788164511","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49988901929233,"sku":"GOR010910499","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51505498652945,"sku":"GOR013550762","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684842762513,"sku":"NLS9781788164511","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53618940543249,"sku":"GOR010884801","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1788164512.jpg?v=1766141490"},{"product_id":"weary-blues-book-langston-hughes-9780486849010","title":"The Weary Blues","description":"The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742926938385,"sku":"NGR9780486849010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50236922986769,"sku":"GOR012833781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762246226193,"sku":"CIN0486849015VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002896548113,"sku":"NIN9780486849010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326146347281,"sku":"CIN0486849015G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51752250769681,"sku":"CIN0486849015A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486849015.jpg?v=1751166793"},{"product_id":"not-without-laughter-book-langston-hughes-9780143134428","title":"Not Without Laughter","description":"A collectible hardcover edition of our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town, featuring an introduction by National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy  A Penguin Vitae Edition  When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his irresponsible father, Jimboy, who plays the guitar and travels the country in search of employment; his strong-willed grandmother Hager, who clings to her faith; his Aunt Tempy, who marries a rich man; and his Aunt Harriet, who struggles to make it as a blues singer--Hughes gives the longings and lineaments of black life in the early twentieth century an important place in the history of racially divided America.  Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as “Penguin of one’s life”--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744973693201,"sku":"NGR9780143134428","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49939084214545,"sku":"CIN0143134426G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49944009769233,"sku":"CIN0143134426VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999537893649,"sku":"NIN9780143134428","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53503720653073,"sku":"GOR014950333","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143134426.jpg?v=1751389230"},{"product_id":"earth-song-petite-poems-book-langston-hughes-9781951836931","title":"An Earth Song (Petite Poems)","description":"Discover the power and joy of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Langston Hughes, featuring an ode to spring and long-awaited new beginningsIn this illustrated adaptation of a beloved Langston Hughes poem, a child delights as the world around him awakens from winter and comes to life with the long-awaited arrival of spring and new beginnings of all kinds.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746324193553,"sku":"NGR9781951836931","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50500018766097,"sku":"GOR013974780","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056114663697,"sku":"NIN9781951836931","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53134440694033,"sku":"CIN1951836936G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1951836936.jpg?v=1751251413"},{"product_id":"ways-of-white-folks-book-langston-hughes-9781784877415","title":"The Ways of White Folks","description":"THE CELEBRATED SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE AMERICAN POET AND WRITER OFTEN CALLED THE 'POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM'  A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a black model to pose as a slave. A white-passing boy ignores his mother when they cross each other on the street.  Written with sardonic wit and a keen eye for the absurdly unjust, these fourteen stories about racial tensions are as relevant today as the day they were penned, and linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.  'Powerful, polemical pieces' New York Times  'Some of the best stories that have appeared in this country in years' North American Review","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49749284225297,"sku":"NGR9781784877415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50021144363281,"sku":"GOR013837865","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52432539025681,"sku":"NLS9781784877415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52464590356753,"sku":"GOR012970467","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784877417.jpg?v=1751184756"},{"product_id":"block-book-langston-hughes-9780670865017","title":"The Block","description":"What is reality? Each of us has a virtual reality map imprinted on our brains, which consists of our individual ideologies, opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs that we've built up over the years. But what if you learned that your reality map was distorted or limited? In Reality Check, David L. Weiner takes us on an entertaining romp through many odd and interesting new findings in various scientific fields - from neurobiology to physics and genetics, describing how difficult it is for these findings to sink in and impact our perspectives. One of the most fascinating topics that Weiner discusses is what neuroscience has found out about certain apelike mechanisms in our brains. These ancient vestiges of evolution can cause turmoil if we don't meet their primitive expectations, and their penchant for pecking order and status can create far-out realities that we think are absolutely true. By opening our minds to what science has discovered about our realities, and what it still considers to be mysteries, we can gain valuable insights and tools for improving the quality of our lives. The fresh and surprising information in this book has ramifications for parents, managers, educators, and everyone else interested in getting the most out of others and themselves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777398612241,"sku":"CIN067086501XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50256885088529,"sku":"CIN067086501XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804530573585,"sku":"CIN067086501XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067086501X.jpg?v=1750784426"},{"product_id":"langston-hughes-poetry-for-young-people-series-book-langston-hughes-9780439889070","title":"Langston Hughes  (Poetry For Young People Series)","description":"-Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.- Annie sang quietly, holding Derek's baby blue cardigan and trying to detect a familiar smell. The same cardigan he was supposed to wear at his christening. Annie and her friends leave Ireland in 1926 young and optimistic, hoping to find a better life in Liverpool. Only things do not turn out the way they had imagined. Annie falls in love, marries and starts a family of her own. But with the onset of World War Two comes tragedy and loss, testing Annie's strength to the limit. Little does she realise that the salvation of her loved ones lies partly with a German woman named Hilde, whose life and situation mirrors Annie's own. 'Liverpool Connection' is the second book of a trilogy and is based on a true story. The first book, 'The Night I Danced with Rommel', tells Hilde's story. The books are historical novels based on facts and tell the writer's family history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789044752657,"sku":"CIN0439889073G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351845933329,"sku":"CIN0439889073A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50952429175057,"sku":"CIN0439889073VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52990044307729,"sku":"GOR009544106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53223731167505,"sku":"GOR007681923","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0439889073.jpg?v=1751166540"},{"product_id":"harlem-in-vogue-the-poetry-and-jazz-of-langston-hughes-cd-0809236180124","title":"Harlem In Vogue, The Poetry and Jazz Of Langston Hughes","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49819245478161,"sku":"DVDB005554I8UVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B005554I8U.jpg?v=1751354429"},{"product_id":"dream-keeper-and-other-poems-book-langston-hughes-9780679844211","title":"Dream Keeper and Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebration of books, storytelling, and reading from one of the greatest living children's book creators\u003c\/b\u003e Somewhere in the place between being awake and asleep lives the Dreamkeeper who uses tricks and traps to lure and capture the creatures of our dreams before they can escape to reality. Presented as a letter to his granddaughter, Robert Ingpen's breathtakingly detailed illustrations are infused with the magic of dreams","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49862760169745,"sku":"CIN067984421XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50123284644113,"sku":"GOR009862212","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359537008913,"sku":"CIN067984421XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51721078309137,"sku":"CIN067984421XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067984421X.jpg?v=1750912367"},{"product_id":"best-of-simple-book-langston-hughes-9780374521332","title":"The Best of Simple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLangston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago \u003ci\u003eDefender\u003c\/i\u003e and then collected in \u003ci\u003eSimple Speaks His Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSimple Takes a Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSimple Stakes a Claim\u003c\/i\u003e--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Simple\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 no specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, and several Cousin Minnies--or reasonable facsimiles thereof.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Arnold 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49876375634193,"sku":"CIN0374521336G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50042136330513,"sku":"CIN0374521336A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50266530447633,"sku":"CIN0374521336VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001756877073,"sku":"NIN9780374521332","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53684170424593,"sku":"GOR003209313","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374521336.jpg?v=1751324880"},{"product_id":"not-without-laughter-book-langston-hughes-9780143131861","title":"Not Without Laughter","description":"In a poor town in Kansas, an African American family struggles. At its centre sits Sandy Rodgers - a young boy attempting to find purpose amid the chaos, meagreness and music of his surroundings. His narrative intertwines with those of his family - his wandering father, his fervent grandmother, his blues-singing aunt - to create a brilliantly intricate portrait of Black life in the early twentieth century.     Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes' unforgettable debut novel, is a landmark in the history of a racially divided America and one of the jewels of the Harlem Renaissance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49907713540369,"sku":"CIN0143131869G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50056302887185,"sku":"GOR011756959","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129425924369,"sku":"CIN0143131869VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999531798801,"sku":"NIN9780143131861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143131869.jpg?v=1750694945"},{"product_id":"collected-works-of-langston-hughes-v-1-poems-1921-1940-book-langston-hughes-9780826213396","title":"The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 1; Poems 1921-1940","description":"The first three volumes of Missouri's landmark Collected Works of Langston Hughes comprise all of his published poetry. Although he worked in a variety of forms, Hughes was above all a poet. From 1921, when his first poem. \"\"The Negro Speaks of Rivers,\"\" appeared in a national magazine, until 1967, when his last volume appeared shortly after his death, he remained faithful to his central goal - to be a poet of the African American and American experience, creating verse that honored the culture of black American and the ideals of the nation. Volume 1 includes the complete texts of Hughes's 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 American creativity, especially jazz and the blues. His second volume, steephed in the blues and controversial because of its frankness, confirmed Hughes as a poet of uncompromising integrity. Then, in the 1930s especially, came the radical poetry included in Dear Lovely Death (1934) and A New Song (1938). For example, \"\"Good Morning Revolution\"\" and \"\"Let American Be America Again\"\" made his pen one of the most forceful in America during the Great Depression.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49916149334289,"sku":"CIN0826213391G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371042345233,"sku":"CIN0826213391A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826213391.jpg?v=1750786743"},{"product_id":"return-of-simple-book-langston-hughes-9780809086764","title":"Return of Simple","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Dennis James Williams returned home after fighting in Iraq, he had a hard time fitting back into society. He was under financial stress and could not communicate with his wife. Much of his time was spent trying to find a place to work so he could provide for his family. But what turned out to be his worst problem was something he didn't want to admit he had-post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this gut-wrenching personal account, Williams looks back at a downward spiral that led to alcohol, drugs, and other crutches. Finding a path that led to something better took a lot of work and time. Each time he thought he'd found the way out, he'd realize it was just an illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether you are a veteran or you know someone who is one, there are signs of post-traumatic stress disorder-you just need to know how to recognize them. After that, it's a matter of accepting the problem and seeking help. Williams met the challenge, and in PTSD and Me, he imparts that there is hope for other soldiers with this disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49930211393809,"sku":"CIN080908676XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50165042577681,"sku":"CIN080908676XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51263880823057,"sku":"CIN080908676XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080908676X.jpg?v=1750947143"},{"product_id":"pictorial-history-of-african-americ-book-langston-hughes-9780517596661","title":"Pictorial History of African Americ","description":"Founded by Bruce Smith \u0026amp; Yoshiko Yamamoto, The Arts \u0026amp; Crafts Press is a small fine press producing notecards, books, and block prints by letterpress on antique printing presses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hanga-Style Letterpress Note Cards designed by Yoshiko Yamamoto. \u003cbr\u003e All have boxed price of $15.95 or $18 for a set of 6 individual cards. All cards this section are 5 x 7 in (portrait) or 7 x 5 in (landscape). \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49986323218705,"sku":"CIN0517596660G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53615553937681,"sku":"CIN0517596660A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0517596660.jpg?v=1751166681"},{"product_id":"panther-and-the-lash-book-langston-hughes-9780679736592","title":"The Panther and the Lash","description":"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 Ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful, the poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50002955829521,"sku":"CIN067973659XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005520773393,"sku":"NIN9780679736592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52545933377809,"sku":"GOR014551807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52718993211665,"sku":"GOR009969980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53231987392785,"sku":"CIN067973659XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067973659X.jpg?v=1751230885"},{"product_id":"collected-works-of-langston-hughes-v-7-early-simple-stories-book-langston-hughes-9780826213709","title":"The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 7; Early Simple Stories","description":"Jesse B. Semple first sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column in 1943. Almost immediately, the \"\"Simple stories,\"\" as they were routinely called, had a large and ever-increasing audience. Simple soon became Harlem's Everyman - an ordinary black workingman, representative of the masses of black folks in the 1940s. Simple had migrated to Harlem, like many other blacks, seeking to escape the racism of the South, and he celebrated his new freedoms despite the economic struggles he still confronted. Simple's bar buddy and foil in the stories is the better-educated, more articulate Boyd who has never lived in the South. Their conversations permit Simple to speak the wisdom of the working class. By the time the first book of Simple stories was published, Hughes had honed and polished these two characters, enhancing the distinctions between the vernacular language of Simple and the more educated diction of his friend. Remaining within the Afrocentric world that was his chosen sphere, Hughes makes clear the message that Simple and Boyd are very much alike; both are black men in a racially unbalanced society. Both exist in a world within a world, in Harlem, the separate black community of New York City. Countless exchanges between Simple and his companion offer wit and wisdom that remind contemporary readers why Langston Hughes is so special.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007505371409,"sku":"CIN0826213707G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826213707.jpg?v=1750914831"},{"product_id":"langston-hughes-reader-book-langston-hughes-9780807600573","title":"The Langston Hughes Reader","description":"First published in 1958, this compilation of the writings of Langston Hughes is drawn from every category of his prodigious literary achievement. It combines highlights of the novels, stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays that have established his commanding position in world literature. Among the selections are the complete libretto of his popular musical comedy Simply Heavenly; the text of his pageant Glory of Negro History; his one-act play, Soul Gone Home; generous portions of his autobiographies, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander; and of the incomparable Simple trilogy: Simple Takes a Wife, Simple Speaks his Mind, and Simple Stakes a Claim.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50052938727697,"sku":"CIN0807600571G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50150445089041,"sku":"GOR005089772","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50162963251473,"sku":"CIN0807600571VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807600571.jpg?v=1750818360"},{"product_id":"book-of-rhythms-book-langston-hughes-9780195098563","title":"The Book of Rhythms","description":"\u003cem\u003eRhythm is something we share in common, you and I, with all the plants and animals and people in the world, and with the stars and moon and sun, and all the whole vast wonderful universe beyond this wonderful earth which is our home.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this beautifully designed book, Langston Hughes shares an appreciation of the rhythms of life--from visual patterns that catch the eye to rhythms in nature like the beating of a human heart, the pulse of the ocean, and the turning of the planets.\u003cbr\u003e With the keen eye of an artist and the perception of a poet, Hughes finds the seeds of rhythm in the slow flowing of the Mississippi River, the even slap-slap-slap of a jump rope, the swoop of a swing, and the steadiness of Grandma's rocking. He relishes the rhythms of nature in the opening of a many petaled rose or the intricacy of a snowflake.\u003cbr\u003e He calls up images and offers examples even the youngest reader will understand--clapping the rhythm of a favorite song, scrutinizing the lines and wrinkles of our hands, even examining the dining room chairs for charming and graceful rhythms.\u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 1954, this new edition offers original illustrations, an introduction by musician Wynton Marsalis, and an afterword by Hughes scholar Robert G. O'Meally. Read it aloud to the youngest children as they become aware of the diversity of the world. Older children will delight in the varied and offbeat exercises and examples, and all ages will be touched by Hughes's zest for rhythm and for life itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50082273788177,"sku":"CIN0195098560G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50451371294993,"sku":"CIN0195098560VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50938241351953,"sku":"GOR002881104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0195098560.jpg?v=1751195430"},{"product_id":"african-treasury-rare-book-langston-hughes-1703165521mhp","title":"African Treasury","description":"1961. No edition remarks. 207 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Clean pages with noticeable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to fro","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50085047075089,"sku":"1703165521MHP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1703165521MHP_1.jpg?v=1722921555"},{"product_id":"tambourines-to-glory-book-langston-hughes-9780767923279","title":"Tambourines to Glory","description":"For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. \u003ci\u003eTambourines to Glory \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox. \u003cbr\u003eEssie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief. Essie wants to somehow earn enough money to reunite with her daughter and provide her with a nice home; Laura loves young men, mink coats, and fine Scotch. On a day of inspiration, the friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and a layaway Bible to start a church. \u003cbr\u003eTheir sidewalk services are a hit: Laura s a natural street performer who loves the limelight, while Essie is a charismatic singer with a quiet spirituality. Before long they move to a thousand-seat theatre called the Tambourine Temple. The two women are joined in their ministering by Birdie Lee, the little-old-lady trap drummer who can work the congregation to a feverish pitch, and Deacon Crow-For-Day, an impassioned confessor. \u003cbr\u003eBut then Laura falls for Buddy, a scam artist who suggests selling to the faithful lucky numbers from Scripture and bottles of tap water as Holy Water from the Jordan. Even with a Cadillac and piles of money from Laura, Buddy won t stay faithful, igniting a crime of passion and betrayal. \u003cbr\u003eHarlem Moon Classics is proud to reintroduce readers of all generations to this sparkling gem from the canon of Langston Hughes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50097154523409,"sku":"CIN0767923278G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006994317585,"sku":"NIN9780767923279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52122555777297,"sku":"NLS9780767923279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53574655803665,"sku":"CIN0767923278VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0767923278.jpg?v=1751296821"},{"product_id":"popo-and-fifina-book-langston-hughes-9780195087659","title":"Popo and Fifina","description":"When Popo and Fifina was first published in 1932, it marked the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership between Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Greeted with universal approval, and praised by the The New York Times for its `simple home-like atmosphere', Popo and Fifina is the story of two small children who move from the Haitian countryside to a new house in a town by the sea. Now, 60 years later, its natural appeal is enhanced by our awareness of its place in history. This story is not only a glimpse of life and times long past but also stands as an early African-American classic and as a milestone in the history of literature for children.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50125127876881,"sku":"CIN0195087658G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51478738927889,"sku":"CIN0195087658VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0195087658.jpg?v=1750843456"},{"product_id":"black-magic-book-langston-hughes-9780306804069","title":"Black Magic","description":"} Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the  late 1960s. Long considered the most comprehensive history of African-Americans in the performing arts, this milestone in black history features hundreds of rare and beautiful illustrations. Covering both the obstacles to achievement that these artists faced, and their eventual triumph, Black Magic  long out-of-printis an essential book of American history. }","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50156622250257,"sku":"CIN0306804069A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50313763684625,"sku":"CIN0306804069G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53259176476945,"sku":"GOR014839101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0306804069.jpg?v=1751228493"},{"product_id":"big-sea-book-langston-hughes-9780938410331","title":"The Big Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eLangston Hughes was among the Harlem Renaissance authors who traveled widely during the 1920s. In the first volume of his autobiography, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea, \u003c\/i\u003e covering the years through 1931, Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions to New York City and Harlem.\u003c\/p\u003e Commentaries on the Black Renaissance in Harlem and Washington, D.C., are intertwined with recollections of his student years at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, his travels through the South, and his association as a younger generation poet with the New York and Harlem literary establishment represented by the magazines \u003ci\u003eCrisis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOpportunity.\u003c\/i\u003e Personal memories of Jessie Fauset, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, Carter G. Woodson, Vachel Lindsay, A'Lelia Walker, and others are augmented by allusions to such celebrities as Duke Ellington, Florence Mills, Eubie Blake, Florence Embry, Josephine Baker, Bert Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Ethel Barrymore, and Bessie Smith. Hughes addresses such controversial issues as his literary and personal disagreements with Zora Neale Hurston over their play \u003ci\u003eMule Bone, \u003c\/i\u003e Carl Van Vechten's problematic novel \u003ci\u003eNigger Heaven, \u003c\/i\u003e racial matters at Lincoln University, the Jim Crow laws in the South, and the failures of white patronage. Furthermore, Hughes refers to the sources of a blues poetry aesthetic, his visit to Cuba, and the struggle to complete his first novel, \u003ci\u003eNot without Laughter.\u003c\/i\u003e A rare autobiographical presentation of the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an insider, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a veritable catalog of notables. In addition, it offers a black perspective on the expatriate life in Europe during the Jazz Age.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50159787376913,"sku":"CIN0938410334VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50412639322385,"sku":"CIN0938410334A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0938410334.jpg?v=1751266383"},{"product_id":"negro-speaks-of-rivers-book-langston-hughes-9780786818679","title":"The Negro Speaks of Rivers","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. Although he was only seventeen when he composed it, Hughes already had the insight to capture in words the strength and courage of black people in America. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Artist E.B. Lewis acts as interpreter and visionary, using watercolor to pay tribute to Hughes's timeless poem, a poem that every child deserves to know.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50164793540881,"sku":"CIN0786818670VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51716581359889,"sku":"CIN0786818670A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105090072849,"sku":"CIN0786818670G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0786818670.jpg?v=1751362712"},{"product_id":"collected-works-of-langston-hughes-v-9-essays-on-art-race-politics-and-world-aff-book-langston-hughes-9780826213945","title":"Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 9; Essays on Art, Race, Politics and World Affairs","description":"Part of \"\"The Collected Works of Langston Hughes\"\" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished \"\"Black Writers in a Troubled World\"\".","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50190527594769,"sku":"CIN0826213944G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826213944.jpg?v=1751297822"},{"product_id":"carol-of-the-brown-king-book-langston-hughes-9780689818776","title":"Carol of the Brown King","description":"Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50225567432977,"sku":"CIN0689818777G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333425758481,"sku":"CIN0689818777VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0689818777.jpg?v=1750743655"},{"product_id":"let-america-be-america-again-book-langston-hughes-9781400095193","title":"Let America Be America Again","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50234152288529,"sku":"CIN1400095190G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1400095190.jpg?v=1751240950"},{"product_id":"black-misery-book-hughes-langston-9780839710301","title":"Black Misery","description":"\u003cem\u003eBlack Misery\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1969, but the gentle, funny, and sometimes melancholy words of Langston Hughes still cause a blink of recognition. After 25 years, it remains relevant in our own time. As you turn the pages you may say, I remember feeling like that  You may say, I feel like that now.\u003cbr\u003e As you look at Arouni's black and white illustrations and read the short but powerful one sentence captions, you feel the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. You feel the mix of hope and dismay that characterized the decade.\u003cbr\u003e Langston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In \u003cem\u003eBlack Misery\u003c\/em\u003e he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. Today--just as we did 25 years ago-we smile and even laugh, and we also understand that some things are more than hard, are more than sad. They are pure misery.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Misery\u003c\/em\u003e was the last book that Langston Hughes wrote. He died in May 1967, while working on the manuscript.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50266426999057,"sku":"CIN0839710305A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0839710305.jpg?v=1750703627"},{"product_id":"poacher-or-joseph-rushbrook-edition1-book-langston-hughes-9789357951401","title":"The Mule-Bone; A comedy of Negro life in three acts","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50315807392017,"sku":"GOR013923904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52583557398801,"sku":"NLS9789357951401","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52763410039057,"sku":"NIN9789357951401","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9357951407.jpg?v=1751417730"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-langston-hughes.oembed?page=6","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}