The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the ...
John DOS PassosWith 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 t...
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassinat...
John Dos PassosA dazzling work of American history from the author of the U.S.A. trilogy.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 ...
1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilog...
John DOS PassosWith 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 it...
A novel of the very first importance; a book which the idle reader can devour yet which the literary analyst must take as possibly inaugurating, at long last, the vast and blazing dawn we have awaited. It may be the foundation of a wh...
Manhattan Transfer (Vintage Classics)...
John Dos PassosManhattan Transfer narrates fragments of the life of a vast gallery of characters whose common denominator is the space and time in which they move, the New York of the twenties, as well as the main objective of most of them: obta...
The Big Money: Volume Three of the U....
John DOS PassosTHE 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 noveli...