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  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (Modern Library Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ellison was a believer in the hybrid nature of American culture, a position clearly articulated in the essay &quot;What America Would Be Like Without Blacks.&quot; Elsewhere, he writes about the music of jazzmen Charlie Parker and Charlie Christian, the fiction of Richard Wright and Stephen Crane, and about the creation of his novel, Invisible Man that rocketed him to fame. This book brings together the contents of Ellison's Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, as well as a dozen or so other essays and talks previously uncollected.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ralph Ellison]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone interested in literature or American history]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend the essay &quot;Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity&quot;. Ellison's analysis of &quot;hard boiled&quot; fiction explained to me what it was that always annoyed me about Hemingway, and the (to me) puzzling prevalence and celebration of writers like Cheever, Updike, S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54863431">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 20 15:20:52 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ellison is one of the best American essayists of the century.    His essays are perhaps even better than his classic, <em>Invisible Man</em>.  This collection contains the entirety of <em>Shadow and Act</em>, his most famous essay collection, as well as a series of other interviews and essays.  Ellison is as percepti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1219028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Background reading for <em>Invisible Man</em>.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Ellison lovers.  ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection has everything that is in &quot;Shadow &amp; Act&quot; as well as &quot;Living With Music&quot; -- plus more.  There are a couple of interviews with Ellison, as well as his &quot;notes&quot; during the writing of &quot;Invisible Man.&quot;<br/><br/>It was a great find.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't read all of it yet but wow. It's great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[check out invisible man]]></body>
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