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Langston Hughes
“Hughes’s art can be likened to that of Jelly Roll Morton and the other creators of jazz. His sources are street music. His language is Harlemese. In his way he too is an American original.”
—Arna Bontemps
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- American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s (boxed set)
- Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s
- Dark Passage (LOA eBook Classic)
- Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s
- Nightfall (LOA eBook Classic)
- Street of No Return (LOA eBook Classic)
- The Burglar (LOA eBook Classic)
- The Moon in the Gutter (LOA eBook Classic)
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