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As the "Great War" inspired much great poetry, including that of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, so did it inspire compelling prose. John Dos Passos volunteered to drive an ambulance in France during the First World War. The brutality of his ...
In his day John Dos Passos' name was spoken in the same critical voice as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of his reputation arose from this book, 1919. It is the follow-up work to The Forty-Second Parallel and traces several characters...
Some spine creasing and a little edge wear. Spine has slight spine seperation in center of book but every page is intact. Back cover has a top corner crease. Name on inside front page, no other marks than stated. Ships very quickly and packaged c...
"THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos''s three-volume fable of America''s materialistic success and moral decline"" (American Heritage) and marks the end of ""one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken"" (Tim...
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H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of The Smart Set: ""Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the Un...
This is a portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it...
This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research. “Dos Passos,...
This volume, reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents, contains the following works of John Dos Passos:Three SoldiersOne Man’s Initiation - 1917Rosinante to the Road AgainA Pushcart at the CurbIt also c...
Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka “Number One,” pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. NUMBER ONE draws ma...
In a novel that closely parallels author John Dos Passos’s own ideological struggles during the Spanish Civil War, protagonist Glenn Spotswood, an American, travels to Spain to fight on the Republican side. There, Spotswood joins the Communist Part...
John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, THE GRAND DESIGN critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frus...
In this semi-autobiographical novel, an American named Roland Lancaster has a doomed affair with a younger woman, Elsa, in Cuba during World War II. The love story, in its happiest moments, parallels the idyllic life that author John Dos Passos had w...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
A novel begun in college and then reworked for several years, this work mirrors the author's experience at Harvard and greater Boston. The novel reflects young Dos Passos's interest in aestheticism, Greek and Roman culture, and Walt Whitman....