Libros de John Dos Passos

Orient-express

• 208 páginas
• 1921 reiste der später weltberühmte Autor John Dos Passos durch den Orient - schon damals eine hochexplosive Gegend - und hielt seine Eindrücke in einem Tagebuch fest. Diese abenteuerliche Reise führte den damals 25-Jährigen von...

Manhattan Transfer

The Big Money

• 448 páginas
• 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"...

The 42nd Parallel

• 323 páginas
• The first in John Dos Passos's acclaimed USA trilogy--a "linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age--his, and ours" (The New Yorker).

1919

• 471 páginas
• With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his vigorous and..

One Man’s Initiation, 1917 (1920)

• This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

One Man’s Initiation

• As the "Great War" inspired much great poetry, including that of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, so did it inspire compelling prose. John Dos Passos volunteered to drive an ambulance in France during the First World War. The brutality of...

U.s.a.

• 1184 páginas
• The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century....

Manhattan Transfer

• 368 páginas
• 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing .. the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard

American Lawyer: As He Was, As He Is, As He Can Be

• 192 páginas

Three Soldiers

• 400 páginas
• This story stems directly from the author's experience as an ambulance driver during World War I. It shows how the war destroys Fuselli, Chrisfield and Andrews, men whose variable attitude to the conflict does little to differentiate their fate. Dos...

Easter Island

• Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his..

The Men Who Made The Nation

• 480 páginas
• 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....