Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Ralph Ellison; Preface by Charles Johnson

ISBN 10: 0679601392 / ISBN 13: 9780679601395

Published by Modern Library, 1994

About this Item

Later Printing. Light stain to the lower page ends, else a clean, solid hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($19.95) with one closed tear to the front panel and mild handling wear. NOT ex-lib. A solid, highly usable copy in jacket. xxxiv, 572pp.

Seller Inventory # 009100

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679601392
• ISBN 13: 9780679601395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 Read

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

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