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Flying home and other stories
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- afro-americans
- african americans
- short stories (single author)
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Written between 1937 and 1954 and collected here for the first time, Flying Home and Other Stories represents the best of Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison's short fiction. There are thirteen pieces, six of which were never published in Ellison's lifetime.
Ellison draws on his early experiences - his father's death when he was three; hoboing his way on a freight train to Tuskegee Institute to follow his early dreams of becoming a musician - to create stories that, according to The Washington Post, "approach the simple elegance of Chekhov."
Quotes by Ralph Ellison
From WikiquoteLife is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.[…] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.
[T]here must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Invisible ManRalph EllisonInvisible ManRalph Ellison
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Shadow and actRalph EllisonShadow and actRalph Ellison
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JuneteenthRalph EllisonJuneteenthRalph Ellison
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Trading twelvesRalph EllisonTrading twelvesRalph Ellison
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Living with MusicRalph EllisonLiving with MusicRalph Ellison
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition1952The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Fiction1993Fiction
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Going to the territory1986Going to the territory
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Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience1989Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
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Words of Ages2000Words of Ages
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Twice-Told Tales1966Twice-Told Tales
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The collected essays of Ralph Ellison1995The collected essays of Ralph Ellison
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Conversations with Ralph Ellison1995Conversations with Ralph Ellison
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Juneteenth (Revised)2021Juneteenth (Revised)
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The Nation, Volume 72015The Nation, Volume 7
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