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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

Revised and Updated

Revised and Updated

By Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

By Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

By Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

By Ralph Ellison
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

By Ralph Ellison
Read by Dominic Hoffman and Arthur Morey
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

By Ralph Ellison
Read by Dominic Hoffman and Arthur Morey
Preface by Saul Bellow
Edited by John F. Callahan

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Part of Modern Library Classics

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Sep 09, 2003 | ISBN 9780812968262

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Jun 01, 2011 | ISBN 9780307797025

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    About The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

    About The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

    About The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

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    About Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible… More about Ralph Ellison

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Sep 09, 2003 | 912 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812968262

    Category: Literary Collections

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jun 01, 2011 | 904 Pages | ISBN 9780307797025

    Category: Literary Collections | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $35.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 30, 2018 | 2032 Minutes | ISBN 9780525587705

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    "[Ellison’s] essays never fail to be elegantly written, beautifully composed, and intelletually sophisticated." —Los Angeles Times

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