Invisible Man
  • Published:
    Jan-1952
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  • Main Genre:
    Action Adventure
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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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    • Nov-1968
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451010302
    • ISBN13: 9780451010308
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    • Nov-1968
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451018230
    • ISBN13: 9780451018236
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    • Nov-1968
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451027221
    • ISBN13: 9780451027221
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    • Nov-1968
    • Signet
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451038142
    • ISBN13: 9780451038142
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    • May-1989
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679723137
    • ISBN13: 9780679723134
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    • Mar-1995
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679732764
    • ISBN13: 9780679732761
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    • Mar-1982
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394525493
    • ISBN13: 9780394525495
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    • Jul-1994
    • Modern Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0679601392
    • ISBN13: 9780679601395
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    • Mar-1995
    • Perfection Learning
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0812418166
    • ISBN13: 9780812418163
    • Library Binding
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    • Apr-1995
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0808554123
    • ISBN13: 9780808554127
    • Library Binding
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    • Mar-2002
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0375507914
    • ISBN13: 9780375507915
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    • Jan-2010
    • ProQuest LLC
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1109999860
    • ISBN13: 9781109999860
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    • Oct-2010
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307743993
    • ISBN13: 9780307743992
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    • Jun-1999
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0375407170
    • ISBN13: 9780375407178
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    • Apr-2005
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0739322079
    • ISBN13: 9780739322079
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    • Dec-2010
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
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    • Mar-2011
    • Books on Tape
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0307915131
    • ISBN13: 9780307915139



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