Dos Passos, John 1896-1970

Three soldiers by John Dos Passos ( Book )
114 editions published between 1921 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 3,144 libraries worldwide
Focuses on three soldiers in World War I, a Harvard idealist, a working-class Italian American, and an Indiana farm boy, and portrays their disillusionment with the tyranny, red tape, and boredom of the military.

Manhattan transfer by John Dos Passos ( Book )
282 editions published between 1925 and 2009 in 21 languages and held by 2,621 libraries worldwide
A thread of continuity binds these vignettes of incidents and characters living in New York City in the 1920's.

U.S.A by John Dos Passos ( Book )
104 editions published between 1930 and 2002 in 11 languages and held by 2,425 libraries worldwide
This is a classic portrait of a whole American generation, which fought the first of the century's wars to achieve the illusion of the 20's and experience the disillusion of the 30's.

Mr. Wilson's war by John Dos Passos ( Book )
19 editions published between 1962 and 1970 in 3 languages and held by 2,117 libraries worldwide
From the assassination of McKinley to the defeat of the League of Nations.

The men who made the Nation by John Dos Passos ( Book )
6 editions published between 1957 and 2004 in English and held by 2,010 libraries worldwide

U.S.A.: The 42nd parallel ; 1919 ; The big money by John Dos Passos ( Book )
4 editions published between 1995 and 2009 in English and held by 1,906 libraries worldwide
Unique among American novels for its epic scope and panoramic and social sweep, John Dos Passos' U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. In the novels that make up the trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936) - Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics. In his prologue Dos Passos writes: "U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public library full of old newspapers and dogeared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil...But mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people." The trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. The volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos' life and of world events cited in U.S.A., notes, and an essay on textual selection.

Midcentury by John Dos Passos ( Book )
39 editions published between 1960 and 1965 in 4 languages and held by 1,847 libraries worldwide
Billede af vor tid sammenstillet af autentiske beretninger, biografier og noveller.

The shackles of power; three Jeffersonian decades by John Dos Passos ( Book )
6 editions published between 1966 and 1988 in English and held by 1,495 libraries worldwide
An historical narrative of the early United Sates as dominated and influenced by Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, and John Quincy Adams. Pictures the first quarter of the 19th century as abounding in both patriots and scoundrels-enough to make for fascinating reading.

The best times; an informal memoir by John Dos Passos ( Book )
41 editions published between 1966 and 2002 in 8 languages and held by 1,415 libraries worldwide

Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941 by John Dos Passos ( Book )
55 editions published between 1931 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 1,326 libraries worldwide
"John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer, and U.S.A." "Rosinante to the Road Again (1922) is a vivid collection of essays on Spanish life, literature, and art that demonstrates Dos Passos' enduring fascination with a country he would repeatedly visit and write about. Orient Express (1927) records his 1921-22 journey through the Middle East, and contains provocative and haunting descriptions of the effects of the Greek-Turkish War; the Caucasus in the aftermath of Soviet conquest; Persia during the rise of Reza Khan; the creation of Iraq by the British; and a winter trip by camel caravan across the desert from Baghdad to Damascus. In All Countries (1934) collects pieces on Russia in the late 1920s, Mexico in the aftermath of Zapata, the troubled Spanish Republic, and strikes and protests in the United States, while articles that appeared in Journeys Between Wars (1938) examine the Popular Front in France and the Spanish Civil War." "Also included are A Pushcart at the Curb (1922), a cycle of poems inspired by his travels; nine political and literary essays written between 1916 and 1941, including his denunciation of the execution of his friend Jose Robles by Spanish Communists; and a selection of letters and diary entries from 1916 to 1920 that record his wartime service as an ambulance driver in France and Italy."--BOOK JACKET.