Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks, The Weary Blues

One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but he was also a brilliant storyteller, blending elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Perhaps more than any other writer, Langston Hughes made the white America of the 1920s and 1930s aware of the Black culture thriving in its midst. Hughes''s poetry and fiction works are messages from that America, sharply etched vignettes of its daily life, cruelly accurate portrayals of Black and white collisions. Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Product details

• Authors: Langston Hughes
• Assisted by: Joshua Bennett (Introduction)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.01.2026
• EAN: 9781841594262
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-426-2
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Kansas, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1910 to c 1919, FICTION / African American & Black / General, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION / Own Voices, Relating to African American / Black American people, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Classic fiction: general and literary