Published in 1920, this impressionistic first novel by the celebrated author of the U. S. A. Trilogy is a harrowing portrait of ambulance drivers in France during World War I. Based on the author's own wartime experiences, it is deeply felt but...
In his day John Dos Passos' name was spoken in the same critical voice as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of his reputation arose from this book, 1919. It is the follow-up work to The Forty-Second Parallel and traces several characters...
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). John Dos Passos's USA trilogy (comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money)...
“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.” -- The New York TimesMarking the end of “one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever und...
Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Three Soldiers, written by John Dos Passos, is a classic war novel based o...
A masterpiece of modernist fiction that creates a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multi-faceted New York CityIn a series of overlapping stories, John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a ...
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,...
This volume, reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents, contains the following works of John Dos Passos:Three SoldiersOne Man’s Initiation - 1917Rosinante to the Road AgainA Pushcart at the CurbIt also c...
Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka “Number One,” pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. NUMBER ONE draws ma...
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 Part...
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 frus...
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 w...
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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 a...
A novel begun in college and then reworked for several years, this work mirrors the author's experience at Harvard and greater Boston. The novel reflects young Dos Passos's interest in aestheticism, Greek and Roman culture, and Walt Whitman....