Amiri Baraka
The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander are among the wisest, warmest and most informative books to issue from Langston's pen, and by that to say from the Renaissance or any other literary movement.
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiography
by Langston HughesView All Available Formats & Editions
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler
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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.
Editorial Reviews
The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander are among the wisest, warmest and most informative books to issue from Langston's pen, and by that to say from the Renaissance or any other literary movement.
The New Yorker
An immensely interesting book.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780809015504
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date:
- 08/01/1993
- Series:
- American Century Series
- Edition description:
- Second Edition
- Pages:
- 432
- Sales rank:
- 470,638
- Product dimensions:
- 5.48(w) x 8.12(h) x 1.06(d)
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