One of the great novels of post-war America is now available as a "Penguin Modern Classic". von Ellison, Ralph

Ralph Ellison arbeitete nahezu zwei Jahrzehnte an seinem zweiten Roman, als Ende der sechziger Jahre Ellisons Sommerhaus abbrannte, und mit dem Haus verbrannte das Typoskript, von dem es keine Kopie gab. Ellison machte sich erneut an die...

Before Ralph Ellison became one of America's greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O'Meally has collected the very best of...

Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything' 'Tell me what happened while there's still...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to...

Ralph Ellison (1913-94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his...

Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature. The book's nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to...

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...