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The Big Sea

Audiobook
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."
Cover design by Sara Eisenman. Cover photograph by Roy DeCarava © Sherry Turner DeCarava

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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged
Awards:

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780307939494
  • File size: 306636 KB
  • Release date: July 26, 2011
  • Duration: 10:38:49

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780307939494
  • File size: 306674 KB
  • Release date: July 26, 2011
  • Duration: 10:38:45
  • Number of parts: 9

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1090
Text Difficulty:7-9

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."
Cover design by Sara Eisenman. Cover photograph by Roy DeCarava © Sherry Turner DeCarava

Expand title description text