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Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays by celebrated critics and authors examines the American author's great novel Invisible man, and his enduring influence on modern fiction.
This society has structured itself so as to be unaware of what it owes in both the positive and negative sense to the condition of inhumanity that it has imposed upon a great mass of its citizens. The fact that many whites refuse to recognize this is responsible for much of the anger erupting...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Having published only one novel, Ralph Ellison gained and retained a reputation as one of America's premier authors. Though urged by his admirers and by critics to write more, at the time of his death in 1994 Ellison's renown rested upon a novel published in the 1950s. He remained at the peak of his eminence, acclaimed principally for this single work. But this astonishing book was Invisible Man, one of the cornerstones of modern American literature....
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Lexile measure
1400L
Language
English
Description
Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and professional life. From early notes to his mother, as...
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 17
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English