Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-76000-9
These three volumes have been redesigned and reissued to commemorate the first anniversary of Ellison's death. (Mar.)
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-76001-6
These three volumes have been redesigned and reissued to commemorate the first anniversary of Ellison's death. (Mar.)
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, Albert Murray, Author, John Callahan, Editor Modern Library $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50367-2
""I had chosen to re-create the world, but, like a self-doubting god, was uncertain whether I could make the pieces fit smoothly together. Well, its done now and I want to get on to the next one."" In this passage from a 1951 letter to his literary...
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, Ralph Waldo Ellison, Introduction by Vintage Books USA $14.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-679-73276-1
These three volumes have been redesigned and reissued to commemorate the first anniversary of Ellison's death. (Mar.)
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, Robert G. O'Meally, Editor Modern Library $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-64034-9
Many people don't realize that novelist Ralph Ellison, best-known as the author of Invisible Man, was first an accomplished trumpeter and a student of musical composition, especially jazz. In Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings,...
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, John F. Callahan, Editor, John F. Callahan, Introduction by Random House (NY) $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-394-46457-2
When Ralph Ellison died in 1994, he left behind a manuscript he'd been working on since the '50s. John Callahan's introduction to this long-awaited edition explores Ellison's life and the history of this second novel (after, of course, the classic...
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Ralph Waldo Ellison, Author, John F. Callahan, Introduction by Random House (NY) $23 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-45704-6
To read Ellison's early short stories after having read Invisible Man is like looking at the first sketches and blueprints of parts of the Taj Mahal after having stood in the complete palace itself. Most of these 12 early stories (written between...
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