The Best short stories by Black writers
Subtitle: the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967
By: edited with an introduction by Langston Hughes
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: American fiction; American Short stories
Notes: Previously published as: The Best short stories by Negro writers.
Table of contents: title: The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt; title: The scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar; title: Fern / Jean Toomer; title: Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher; title: The warf rats / Eric Walrond; title: A summer tragedy / Arna Bontempts; title: Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes; title: The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston; title: The Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston; title: Almos' a man / Richard Wright; title: Marihuana and a pistol / Chester B. Hines; title: The beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter; title: The richer, the poorer / Dorothy West; title: The almost white boy / Willard Motley; title: Afternoon into night / Katherine Dunham; title: Flying home / Ralph Ellison; title: Come home early, chile / Owen Dobson; title: Santa Claus is a white man / John Henrik Clarke; title: The stick up / John Oliver Killens; title: Health card / Frank Yerby; title: We're the only colored people here / Gwendolyn Brooks; title: The pocketbook game / Alice Childress; title: The checkerboard / Alston Anderson.; title: This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin; title: See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman; title: The blues begin / Sylvester Leaks; title: Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams; title: Singing dinah's song / Frank London Brown; title: Duel with the clock / Junis Edwards; title: Barbados / Paule Marshall; title: The day the world almost came to an end / Pearl Crayton; title: An interesting social study / Kristin Hunter; title: A new day / Charles Wright; title: Quietus / Charlie Russell; title: Mother to son / Conrad Kent Rivers; title: A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines; title: Miss Luhester gives a party / Ronald Fair; title: The death of tommy grimes / R. J. Meaddough III; title: Old blues singers never die / Clifford Vincent Johnson; title: The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley; title: Beautiful light and black our dreams / Woodie King Jr.; title: Red bonnet / Linsey Patterson; title: The burglar / Lebert Bethune; title: Junkie-Joe had some money / Ronald Milner; title: Direct action / Mike Thelwell; title: The engagement party / Robert Boles; title: To hell with dying / Alice Walker.