John Dos Passos: 32 books

This volume contains the following works of John Dos Passos: One Man’s Initiation - 1917 Three Soldiers Rosinante to the Road Again A Pushcart at the Curb It also contains a nineteenth century polemic by his father, John Randolph Dos Passos, about why the United States should recognize Cuba. John...

John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and landscapes...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The shock of the First World War defined the twentieth century for John Dos Passos and many others of his generation. After serving in a French volunteer ambulance service and then with the American Army in France,...

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and he went on to Harvard College, graduating in 1916. He was well-traveled, visiting Europe and the Middle...

This file includes One Man's Initiation (novel), Three Soldiers (novel), Rosinante to the Road Again (essays), and A Pushcart at the Curb (poetry) . According to Wikipedia: "John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 September 28, 1970) was an American

"Manhattan Transfer" gehört zu den großen revolutionären Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch eine Fülle von Schauplätzen und Charakteren lässt Dos Passos ein schillerndes Porträt des urbanen New Yorker Dschungels entstehen, in dem das Jagdfieber wütet: nach Arbeit, Glück und Macht....

Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or...

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental...

Passos' earliest work is collected here with an active table of contents.Works include:One Man's Initiation--1917Three Soldiers

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...

Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the story of the war we won and the...

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 frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric...

According to Wikipedia: " John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist... Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos's first novel was published in 1920. Titled One Man's Initiation: 1

According to Wikipedia: "John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist….Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos' first novel was published in 1920. Titled One Man's Initiation: 1917