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Author : John Dos Passos
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Release Date : 1996
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Pages : 1288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (49 Download)
Download Free John Dos Passos - USA; The 42nd; Parallel 1919; The Big Money PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Release Date : 1996-08
ISBN :
Pages : 1320 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (15 Download)
Download Free John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85) PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 42nd Parallel -- Nineteen nineteen -- The Big Money.
Author : John Dos Passos
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Release Date : 1963
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Pages : 1302 pages
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Download Free Forty-second Parallel PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the beginning of the Depression.
Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780618056811
Pages : 356 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (815 Download)
Download Free The 42nd Parallel PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little corners, John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.
Author : John Dos Passos
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Release Date : 1939
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Pages : 1474 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (953 Download)
Download Free U. S. A. PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780618056835
Pages : 470 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (831 Download)
Download Free The Big Money PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find 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 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. "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." -- New York Times
Author : John Dos Passos
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Release Date : 1946
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Download Free U.S.A.: The 42 parallel PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael A. Lofaro
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2023-01-17
ISBN : 1621907422
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (97 Download)
Download Free James Agee in Context PDF by Michael A. Lofaro Full Book and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of new essays exploring the life and cultural significance of James Agee grew largely from the scholarship of The Works of James Agee series under the editorial guidance of Michael A. Lofaro. The present volume's eleven essays concern Agee's relation to authors as diverse as Wright Morris, John Dos Passos, William T. Vollmann, Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, it sheds fresh light on Agee's career as an artist, critic, romantic and modernist, reviewer of books, film, and photography, journalist for Fortune magazine, and, uniquely, explores the author's personal writings through the lens of his father's life"--
Author : Lisa Nanney
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-19
ISBN : 1942954883
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (954 Download)
Download Free John Dos Passos and Cinema PDF by Lisa Nanney Full Book and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of his little-known screen writing, John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing uses unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to explore how he adapted film aesthetics to structure his modernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s, then, beginning in the 1940s, attempted to revise those novels directly into screenplays reflecting the controversial conservative political shift that redefined his later literary career.
Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : HMH
Release Date : 2003-09-02
ISBN : 0547526695
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (526 Download)
Download Free Manhattan Transfer PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by HMH. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel by the author of the U.S.A. Trilogy offers an “expressionistic picture of New York” in the 1920s (The New York Times). Much like the vivid experience of riding the city’s mass transit system, Manhattan Transfer introduces us to a large and diverse cast of characters—from wealthy power brokers to struggling immigrants—and paints a portrait of this place and its people in the period between the two world wars. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the city waterfront, John Dos Passos chronicles the lives of Americans struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. Called “a novel of the very first importance” by Sinclair Lewis, Manhattan Transfer is a masterpiece of modern fiction written by an icon of the Lost Generation whose books still “read as if they were written yesterday” (Dave Eggers, bestselling author of The Circle).
Author : Jun Young Lee
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9780820486420
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (426 Download)
Download Free History and Utopian Disillusion PDF by Jun Young Lee Full Book and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canonical but controversial works of radical modernism, John Dos Passos' novels continue to intrigue readers and challenge literary critics with their unique styles and provocative messages. This book offers an insightful and refreshing perspective on his fictional world, exploring the historical vision and utopian aspirations of his early novels in light of their dialectical politics in narrating modern American society. History and Utopian Disillusion convincingly shows that Dos Passos' epic-scale project is a radical hymn of faith dialectically inspiring the utopian resolution of American history by presenting entropic despair and disillusionment.
Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-11-08
ISBN : 1538105543
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (15 Download)
Download Free From Native Son to King's Men PDF by Robert McParland Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at authors and their works during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, focusing on works that resonated with readers. A sweeping social, literary, and cultural history, this book explores the courage and hopes of the “greatest generation” through its imaginative literature.
Author : John Dos Passos
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2021-01-05
ISBN : 0593312058
Pages : 450 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (312 Download)
Download Free Manhattan Transfer PDF by John Dos Passos Full Book and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of modernist fiction that creates a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multi-faceted New York City In a series of overlapping stories, John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a narrative collage that brings the complexity of the urban environment to life. From Wall Street to the waterfront, from the Bowery to the Village, from the city's grand avenues to its gritty alleys, its wealthy power brokers and its struggling immigrants, this kaleidoscopic novel conveys the restless energy of life in Manhattan. The innovative novelistic techniques Dos Passos used, marked by flashbacks, stream of consciousness, and a cinematic perspective, would go on to inspire a new school of writing. Almost a century after it was written, Manhattan Transfer remains an indelible tribute to the contradictions of the American dream.
Author : Donald Pizer
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-24
ISBN : 1942954220
Pages : 182 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (954 Download)
Download Free The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study PDF by Donald Pizer Full Book and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study presents for the first time a comprehensive, fully illustrated record and exploration of the body of visual art created by the groundbreaking narrative innovator whose interartistic fictions helped define early twentieth-century modernism.
Author : Matthew Stratton
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
ISBN : 0823255468
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (255 Download)
Download Free The Politics of Irony in American Modernism PDF by Matthew Stratton Full Book and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw “irony” emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of “irony” inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others.
Author : Priscilla Murolo
Publisher : New Press, The
Release Date : 2012-03-13
ISBN : 1595588566
Pages : 385 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (588 Download)
Download Free From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend PDF by Priscilla Murolo Full Book and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter," From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend is the first comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor" (Library Journal). From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend also "thoroughly includes the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and minorities, and considers events often ignored in other histories," writes Booklist, which adds that "thirty pages of stirring drawings by ‘comic journalist’ Joe Sacco add an unusual dimension to the book."
Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-10
ISBN : 0674727487
Pages : 499 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (727 Download)
Download Free The Dream of the Great American Novel PDF by Lawrence Buell Full Book and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes.” —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly Review The idea of “the great American novel” continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four “scripts” for G.A.N. candidates and their themes, illustrated by such titles as The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Beloved, Moby-Dick, and Gravity’s Rainbow—works dwelling on topics from self-invention to the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction. “Engaging and provocative . . . ultimately affirms the importance of literature to a nation’s sense of itself.” —Sarah Graham, Times Literary Supplement “Rich in critical insight . . . Buell wonders if the GAN isn’t stirring again in surprising new developments in science fiction. An impressively ambitious literary survey.” —Booklist (starred review)
