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Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison
Category: Fiction
The best of Ralph Ellison's short fiction. Written between 1937 and 1954, these fourteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Seven of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and one, 'A Storm of Blizzard Proportions' is now included in Flying Home for the fi ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retre ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ellison Ralph Callahan John
Category: Classic Fiction
This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times. The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-w ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invisible man "simply because people refuse to see me". Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Manis a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity.'Words are your business, boy. Not just theWord. Words are everything''Tell me what happened while there's still time,' demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate black ...Show more
Mod Lib Collected Essays Of Ellison by Ralph Ellison
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent ...Show more
The Black Ball (Mini Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ellison, Ralph
Category: Biography Memoir
A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer's craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the li ...Show more
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