John dos Passos

This is the last book in the trilogy U.S.A. and it portrays the extravagance and corruption of the 1920s, culminating in the stock-market crash of 1929 and in the personal tragedy or moral defeat of several of the leading characters. There are short interspersed biographies of such men as Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Randolph Hearst, and Rudolph Valentino.

“A Depression-era novel about American tumult has—perhaps unsurprisingly—aged quite well.”—The New Yorker

In 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his “vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America” (Forum).

Employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos

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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 world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt-they are his beloved friends. Spain, the...

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 a key concern of the author's in the 1950s-America's rise to global prominence during World War II, and its loss of power in the years following the peace....

Story of a contemporary family and a man's reactions to the social problems of the day. Preceded by "Adventures of a young man."

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."

This 1922 work uses the resources of both fiction and travel writing to channel the spirit of Don Quixote in its tale of two wanderers trekking on foot from Madrid to Toledo in the aftermath of World War I. Chapters are interwoven with critical and biographical essays of notable Spanish writers of the time.

Chuck Crawford es político de profesión, sureño, tramposo y adúltero. Dos Passos retrata al político populista que inspiraría «Todos los hombres del rey» de Penn Warren. Homer T. Crawford es un auténtico animal político. Es número uno en popularidad, contactos y favores. Número uno también en corrupción, demagogia y escándalos privados. Con la ayuda de un asesor de campaña, consigue el cargo de senador y pronto aspirará a la presidencia...