Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks
by Langston Hughes
Everyman’s Library (Jan 13, 2026)
Fiction, Hardcover, 600 pages
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Description of Weary Blues; Not Without Laughter; The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but he was also a brilliant storyteller, blending elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Perhaps more than any other writer, Langston Hughes made the white America of the 1920s and 1930s aware of the Black culture thriving in its midst. Hughes’s poetry and fiction works are messages from that America, sharply etched vignettes of its daily life, cruelly accurate portrayals of Black and white collisions.
This Everyman’s Library compendium comprises:
- The Weary Blues, Hughes’s debut poetry collection that catapulted him into literary stardom at just twenty-four years old;
- Not Without Laughter, his award-winning debut novel published in 1930 to critical raves;
- The Ways of White Folks, his 1933 collection of short stories, currently only available in Vintage Classics trade paperback.
Everyman’s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

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- Imprint: Everyman’s Library
- Publisher: Everyman’s Library
- Parent Company: Everyman’s Library
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