Langston Hughes' mastery of the African-American vernacular and his passionate vision of the world resonate in this generous selection of his poems, including TThe Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too," "The Weary Blues," "America," "Dream Variations," "Young Sailor," "Scottsboro," "The Heart of Harlem," and "Freedom Train"; and three stories from "The Ways of White Folks."
The perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerful stories.

Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Hughes's work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.

Vintage Hughes includes the famed 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."