Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century’ The Times’It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves’Ralph Ellison’s blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible ‘simply because people refuse to see me’. Published in 1952 when American society was in the c….Read More
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