John Dos Passos: 32 books

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 with his first wife, Katy.   The Great Days plots...

Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois.   “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum....

Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos' (1896-1970) first novel was published in 1920. Titled ONE MAN'S INITIATION--1917, it drew upon Dos Passos' experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I and was followed by another antiwar story, THREE SOLDIERS, which brought him considerable...

A grim portrait of World War I army life that set the standard for Hemingway, Mailer, and other acclaimed chroniclers of warfare. They come to the army from different Americas: Fuselli, a San Francisco store clerk bucking for promotion; Chrisfield, a laid-back Indiana farm boy; and Andrews,...

For this history, Dos Passos returns to the American colonial period and early nationhood, exploring the personalities who won the nation’s independence from England: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, and George Washington. Originally called “The World Turned Upside Down,” The...

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...

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...

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 Party to help establish a more just society, but his idealism quickly degrades under the stress of party orthodoxy and hypocrisy.

Here, from the legendary author John Dos Passos and American Heritage, are portraits of three men critical to the early history of the United States: Aaron Burr, whose political skills carried him to the threshold of the White House but was ultimately indicted for treason; Lafayette, a hero of the American...

An anthology of some of the greatest war novels of all time. The collection include an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you want.Works include:"The Red Badge of Courage" By Stephen Crane"The Iliad" By Homer"Three Soldiers" By John Dos Passos"Ride Proud, Rebel!" By Andre Alice...

John Dos Passos sentía una fascinación inconmensurable por España. La visitó por primera vez en octubre de 1916, con veinte años, y permaneció en la península casi tres meses. Instalado en Madrid, recorrió con ahínco pasional y mirada enfervorizada buena parte de nuestra singular geografía....

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,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings...

A 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...

Though best known as a novelist, Dos Passos was also a talented poet, as this 1922 volume of travel poems demonstrates.  The contents are: "Winter in Castile," "Nights at Bassano," "Vagones de Tercera," "Quai de la Tournelle," "On Foreign Travel," and "Phases of the Moon."