Invisible Manis 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.
year: 1995, 1952, 1994, 1989, 2002, 1999, 1982, 1992, 1953, 1947, 1990
call number/section: 1000, 813.54, 813, 813.5
subjects: african americans, social conditions, to 1964, fiction, african american men, science fiction
Editions
Ellison, Ralph
Vintage International (1995)
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Schools: 27
Ellison, Ralph
Random House (1952)
Records a black American man's progression from youthful affirmation to a sense of total rejection.
Schools: 5
Ellison, Ralph
Modern Library (1994)
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Schools: 6
Ellison, Ralph
Random House (1989)
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Schools: 6
Ellison, Ralph
Random House (2002)
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Schools: 1
Ellison, Ralph
Random House Audio (1999)
Schools: 3
Ellison, Ralph
Random House (1982)
Schools: 1
Ellison, Ralph
Modern Library (1992)
Schools: 3
Ellison, Ralph
Gollancz (1953)
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Signet (1947)
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Modern Library (1947)
Invisible Manis 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.
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Random House, Inc. (1990)
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Records a black American man's progression from youthful affirmation to a sense of total rejection.
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Signet (1947)
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
Modern Library (1947)
Invisible Manis 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.
Schools: 0
Ellison, Ralph
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Schools: 2
Ellison, Ralph
Schools: 1
Ellison, Ralph
Records a black American man's progression from youthful affirmation to a sense of total rejection.
Schools: 0