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The Best of Simple
The Best of Simple
Author: Langston Hughes
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, ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374521332
ISBN-10: 0374521336
Publication Date: 9/28/1990
Pages: 245
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a great sampler of Hughes witty vignettes of Harlem everyman, Jess B. Semple (Childhood nickname Simple and the B added in adulthood by hisself as he had no middle name.) So dub him Just Be Simple. It is predominately dialog between the (apparent) author, sophisticated and educated, and Simple, a composite of the milieu. It is a clash of their philosophies of life: how to is (Simple) and how it should be (author). Read these entertaining anecdotes; youll ponder way Hughes is hardly known today, except in literary circles.


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