The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

The Ways of White Folks by Langston HughesTHE CELEBRATED SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE AMERICAN POET AND WRITER OFTEN CALLED THE 'POET LAUREATE OF HARLEM'A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a black model to pose as a slave. A white passing boy ignores his mother when they cross each other on the street. Written with sardonic wit and a keen eye for the absurdly unjust, these fourteen stories about racial

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holds a darkened mirror to our own contemporary politics

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this is the first major account in nearly a century to deal with the core issues of how the Irish people came into being

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Written in the last months of Austen's life

with such poems as 'Ode to a Nightingale'

'Absolutely dazzling' Marian Keyes

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