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The Big Sea

by Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad
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Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best—simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Edition: 2

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  • ISBN: 9781466883499
  • Release date: March 2, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781466883499
  • File size: 908 KB
  • Release date: March 2, 2015

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subjects

Biography & Autobiography Sociology African American Nonfiction Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1090
Text Difficulty:7-9

Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best—simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Sociology African American Nonfiction Nonfiction