Book Title: The Big Sea

Author: Langston Hughes

Book Description: The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes's life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

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The Big Sea (1940) is a novel by American poet Langston Hughes. It chronicles Hughes’s life as a young adult in Harlem and Paris in the 1920s. In Paris, he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. In Harlem, he was a rising young poet at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Langston Hughes

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Title
The Big Sea
Author
Langston Hughes
License

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This work (The Big Sea by Langston Hughes) is free of known copyright restrictions.

Front and back matter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license unless otherwise noted.

Cover image [Portrait of Langston Hughes] by Carl van Vechten, Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons.

Publisher
Ryerson University
Publication Date
February 15, 2022