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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 Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation
- American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton
- American Speeches: Political Oratory from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama (Paperback Classic)
- American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War
- American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965
- Slave Narratives
- American Christmas Stories
- A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels
- Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852–1890
- Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910
- Historical Romances
- Life on the Mississippi (Paperback Classic)
- Mississippi Writings
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback Classic)
- The Collected Shorter Works of Mark Twain (boxed set)
- The Complete Mark Twain Library (eight volumes)
- The Gilded Age & Later Novels
- The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It
- The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works
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