U.S.A.
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher:
Published: 1937
Total Pages: 1486
ISBN-13:
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The Big Money
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013-12-24
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0547524927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people.”—The New York Times Marking the end of “one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken” (Time), The Big Money brings us back to America after the Great War, a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. Ultimately, whether the novels of John Dos Passos’s classic USA Trilogy are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America—and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers. The Big Money, focusing on a passionate pilot whose compromises culminate in despair and an actress led astray by her ambitions, completes this “fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline” (American Heritage).
Three Soldiers
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780760757543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis grimly realistic depiction of army life follows a trio of idealists as they contend with the regimentation, violence, and boredom of military service. Incited past the point of endurance, the soldiers respond with rancor and murderous rage. This powerful exploration of warfare's dehumanizing effects remains chillingly contemporary.
Orient Express
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe journal of the author on a trip through Russia and the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean, including Syria and Lebanon), published in 1927.
The Best Times
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1504011430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt—they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus—they are his beloved footpaths.
We Have Only This Life to Live
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1590174933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record of an encounter, the framing of a choice. Whether writing about literature, art, politics, or his own life, he seizes our attention and drives us to grapple with the living issues that are at stake. We Have Only This Life to Live is the first gathering of Sartre’s essays in English to draw on all ten volumes of Situations, the title under which Sartre collected his essays during his life, while also featuring previously uncollected work, including the reports Sartre filed during his 1945 trip to America. Here Sartre writes about Faulkner, Bataille, Giacometti, Fanon, the liberation of France, torture in Algeria, existentialism and Marxism, friends lost and found, and much else. We Have Only This Life to Live provides an indispensable, panoramic view of the world of Jean-Paul Sartre.
John Dos Passos
Author: Townsend Ludington
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authorized biography of John Dos Passos is both important and highly engaging -- important because it provides a portrait-in-action of one of the ablest American writers of this century, searching critiques of all his works, and straightforward analyses of the complex political and social backgrounds out of which they grew; and engaging because of this shy, modest, friendly, endearing, and indefatigable man whose sterling character springs out of every page. - Carlos Baker, on back of jacket.
Dos Passos
Author: Virginia Spencer Carr
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0810122006
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John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142)
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Library of America John DOS Pa
Published: 2003-09-15
Total Pages: 902
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore he began the U.S.A. trilogy, Dos Passos prefigured his groundbreaking epic through three novels that provide a fascinating glimpse into his achievement as an avant-garde prose stylist while they incisively chronicle early 20th-century Europe and America.
The Breaking Point
Author: Stephen Koch
Publisher: Robson
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781861059543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErnest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were friends; writers-in-arms, though they were polar opposites in terms of personality – Dos Passos’ calm contrasting with Hemingway’s machismo. They arrived in Spain during the civil war as comrades, but when Dos Passos undertook to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of his friend, José Robles – a Spanish-born Johns Hopkins profressor who had moved back to Spain to help save the Spanish Republic – their friendship, and Dos Passos’ literary career, reached the breaking point. In this stunning historical narrative, written with a novelists eye for detail, acclaimed writer Stephen Koch explores the relationship between the two men - set against the grippingly dramatic backdrop of the Spanish Civil War - and how their split changed them both as men and as writers.
