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Invisible Man
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Invisible Man
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ralph Ellison
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Series | Penguin Essentials |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:608 | Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780241970560
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication Date |
14 August 2014 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
New Penguin Essentials edition of this blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America. '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' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society- as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .
Author Biography
Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma in 1914. He studied music and in 1936 went to live in New York. He started contributing to the Federal Writers' Project (part of Roosevelt's New Deal) and soon his short stories and articles were published. After returning from war service in the Merchant Marines, he concentrated on his writing and, in 1952, his masterpiece Invisible Man was published, seven years after he started it. This established Ellison as a major literary figure. He died in 1994.
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