Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • A note on the text
  • [section 1]. Simple speaks his mind (1950)
  • pt. 1. Summer time
  • 1. Feet live their own life
  • 2. Landladies
  • 3. Simple prays a prayer
  • 4. Conversation on the corner
  • 5. Family tree
  • 6. A toast to Harlem
  • 7. Simple and his sins
  • 8. Temptation
  • 9. Wooing the muse
  • 10. Summer ain't simple
  • 11. A word from "Town & country"
  • 12. Matter for a book
  • 13. Surprise
  • 14. Vacation
  • pt. 2. Winter time
  • 15. Letting off steam
  • 16. Jealousy
  • 17. Banquet in honor
  • 18. After hours
  • 19. A veteran falls
  • 20. High bed
  • 21. Final fear
  • 22. There ought to be a law
  • 23. Income tax
  • 24. No alternative
  • 25. Question period
  • 26. Lingerie
  • 27. Spring time
  • pt. 3. Hard times
  • 28. Last whipping
  • 29. Nickel for the phone
  • 30. Equality and dogs
  • 31. Seeing double
  • 32. Right Simple
  • 33. Ways and means
  • 34. The law
  • 35. Confused
  • 36. Something to lean on
  • pt. 4. Any time
  • 37. In the dark
  • 38. For the sake of argument
  • 39. Simple pins on medals
  • 40. A ball of string
  • 41. Blue evening
  • 42. When a man sees red
  • 43. Race relations
  • 44. Possum, race, and face
  • 45. A letter from Baltimore.
  • [section 2]. Simple takes a wife (1953)
  • pt. 1. Honey in the evening
  • 1. Seven rings
  • 2. What can a man say?
  • 3. Empty room
  • 4. Better than a pillow
  • 5. Explain that to me
  • 6. Baltimore womens
  • 7. Less than a damn
  • 8. Picture for her dresser
  • 9. Cocktail sip
  • 10. Apple strudel
  • 11. Belles and bells
  • 12. Bop
  • 13. A hat is a woman
  • 14. Formals and funerals
  • 15. Science says it's a lie
  • 16. Joyce objects
  • 17. The necessaries
  • 18. Second-hand clothes
  • 19. Fancy free
  • 20. That powerful drop
  • 21. Never no more
  • 22. Simply heavenly
  • pt. 2. Manna from Heaven
  • 23. Midsummer madness
  • 24. Morals is her middle name
  • 25. Party in the Bronx
  • 26. Last thing at night
  • 27. They come and they go
  • 28. A million
  • and one
  • 29. Two loving arms
  • 30. All in the family
  • 31. Kick for punt
  • 32. Night in Harlem
  • 33. Staggering figures
  • 34. Tickets and takers
  • 35. Subway to Jamaica
  • 36. No tea for the fever
  • 37. That word black
  • 38. Boys, birds, and bees
  • 39. On the warpath
  • 40. A hearty Amen
  • 41. Colleges and color
  • 42. Psychologies
  • 43. Must have a seal
  • 44. Shadow of the blues
  • pt. 3. Sassafras in spring
  • 45. Nothing but roomers
  • 46. Here comes old me
  • 47. Strictly for charity
  • 48. Once in a wife-time
  • 49. Whiter than snow
  • 50. Simple Santa
  • 51. Present for Joyce
  • 52. Christmas song
  • 53. Tied in a bow
  • 54. Sometimes I wonder
  • 55. Dear Dr. Butts
  • 56. Castles in the sand
  • 57. Four rings
  • 58. Simply love
  • Notes
  • Index of titles.