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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 818.5209 EAN: 9780809015498 ISBN: 0809015498 Label: Hill and Wang Manufacturer: Hill and Wang Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 356 Publication Date: August 01, 1993 Publisher: Hill and Wang Studio: Hill and Wang Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Path to GreatnessFirst of all, I dont think i've ever read a book so fast. I borrowed a biography of Langstonn Hughes a number of years ago from a relative and started to read it. However, i put it down at some point and never picked it back up... which is what happens to books that take a minute to pick up the pace. So when i saw this book on here, and i noticed it was an Autobiography (and i read all the reviews) i ordered it. Once i got it and opened it up, it seems like in no time i was done and ... Read More Rating:  - travels with LangstonLangston hughes presents us with his travels. This is not a great book nor it a bad book. It falls in between the scope of what happens to a guy when he goes around the world and mets people. Rating: - "Sometimes life is a ripe fruit too delicious for the taste of man."Published when Hughes was 38, the subject of The Big Sea is the period of his life from 1902-1939. It covers a wide variety of episodes in Hughes' life, with key elements being his travels as a youth, his relationship to his father, and the Harlem Renaissance. I knew his poetry, of course, from all those years as an English major. I have not had the occasion to read any of his prose, and decided to pick this up after reading the collected works of Nella Larsen. There was ... Read More Rating:  - Must readI read this as an assignment in college and found it wonderfully painful in its realism and truth. A must read for every American, regardless of what ethic origin. Rating: - The journies of a Hero"On a radio show, he (Hughes) defended the right of trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who had long faced the white world with a broad grin, to vent his racial anger." Like Armstrong, Hughes also faced the same world with his broad smile. Throughout the BIG SEA and I WONDER AS I WANDER, there in the texts of both autobiographies is the ever smiling Hughes. Other than the people he met and the foreign lands he visited---all making for great and entertaining reading--- very little is revealed ... Read More 
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