Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drenched in Light | 1924 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 2 | The Gilded Six-Bits | 1986 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 3 | Sweat | 1997 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 4 | The Mule-Bone | 2023 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
Zora Neale Hurston wrote short fiction throughout her career, beginning with Drenched in Light in 1924, one of her earliest published works. Her short stories and novellas often feature the same Southern Black communities and dialect that define her novels.
This collection includes some of her most studied individual works, such as Sweat and The Gilded Six-Bits, alongside The Mule-Bone, a comedy co-written with Langston Hughes that became the subject of a famous literary dispute between the two writers.