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Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers.

In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.

Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: "...these tales are about a great many people--although they are stories about no specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and not know at least a hundred Simples, fifty Joyces, twenty-five Zaritas, and several Cousin Minnies--or reasonable facsimiles thereof."

As Arnold Rampersad has written, Simple is "one of the most memorable and winning characters in the annals of American literature, justly regarded as one of Hughes's most inspired creations."

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hill and Wang; Illustrated edition (September 28, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374521336
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374521332
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.7 x 7.9 inches
Reviewer: mona
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read from a favorite writer
Review: Just great read

Reviewer: BeeBee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mr.Hughes is one of my favorites.
Review: I like the fact that the stories that he tells are timeless. People don't change as much as we think.He gives life humor.

Reviewer: MARTHA R WATSON
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: i LOVE lANGSTON
Review: FUN STORIES. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. THANK YOU LANGSTON!!!

Reviewer: Patricia Williams
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love the boo
Review: Great story telling! I’m enjoying

Reviewer: NW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Classic
Review: You can never go wrong with Langston Hughes. I lost my first copy and this is my second copy. Rereading this classic brings laughter and leaves a smile on my face. Love, love Simple!

Reviewer: WandaCM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful Work!
Review: I have been a Langston Hughes fan since I was about 10 years old. At that age I would go to the public library to listen to him read his poetry via LP record. This book is wonderful; insightful, funny, and resonating with history of the experience/life of Black people in America.

Reviewer: D J
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The purcahse was worth the great memories in college days.
Review: I read this book in college for my African American Literature course, more than 25 years ago . Now my daughter attends the same college and had same professor for the African American Literature class. I lost my original copy in a hurricane. I purchased this copy and had my professor sign and write a few lines about me. It was a great excuse to meet him for coffee.

Reviewer: pdhoward
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Jess B. Semple is a timeless character
Review: A great read. Very relatable. The dialect got a little old since it wasn’t so much slang or cut short words as it was proper words with continuous subject-verb errors. That’s not been my experience the dialect but Langston pulls it off as the plain speaking straight man to Simple. Hilarious in parts. Timeless themes in the minds of black Americana thrust to the forefront in everyday scenes. Highly recommend.

Reviewer: Vivienne Westwood
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Not finished reading this yet but so far Simple is great!

Reviewer: Lauralou
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Sharing in the delightful Simples stories proved enlightening and educational for my grandchildren.

Reviewer: petit jacques
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: au début, je me disais : "oui, bon ....", mais sans plus; et puis, au fur et à mesure de la lecture, j'ai été charmé; c'est drôle, c'est sérieux, c'est un plaisir ! des brèves de comptoir qui se passent à Harlem; un des interlocuteur qui dit :"tu ne crois pas que tu es un peu trop obsédé par les problème de races", et l'autre qui part dans une démonstration délirante, .... mais convaincante.et encore, plusieurs pages consacrées à des chanteuses de blues (Ma Raney, Bessie Smith), passage intégralement cité par Angela Davis dans son livre sur le blues féminin et le féminisme, ou l'un fait remarquer à l'autre "hé ! mais si tu connais ça, tu es bien plus vieux que tu le prétends", etc ...

Reviewer: Caroline Wallace
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Book in excellent condition. Many Thanks!!