The Simple Stories, set of 5 volumes + record. [Simple Speaks His Mind, Takes a Wife, Stakes of Claim, Best of, Uncle Sam, by Hughes, Langston: Very Good Hardcover (1950)

Hardcover - Simon & Schuster - 1950 - Condition: Very Good - Very Good - Langston Hughes' short stories of the Harlem everyman Jesse B. Semple, a.k.a. "Simple", were first published in The Chicago Defender which was arguably the most important Black periodical in America at the time. This set includes a vinyl LP read by Ossie Davis. The first three books are first editions; the last two are both 1965 printings. Very good condition overall, some fading to jacket of the first volume - The Simple Stories, set of 5 volumes + record. [Simple Speaks His Mind, Takes a Wife, Stakes of Claim, Best of, Uncle Sam

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The Best of Simple: Stories

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Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature 0198824033, 9780198824039

Author: Hughes, Langston

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, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.

The Best of Simple [Book]