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Library of America John Dos Passos Edition Ser.: John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142) : One Man's Initiation: 1917 / Three Soldiers / Manhattan Transfer by Townsend Ludington, John Dos Passos and John Dos Passos (2003, Hardcover)

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Written in the decade before the publication of his famous U.S.A. trilogy, the three early novels collected in this Library of America volume record the emergence of John Dos Passos as a bold and accomplished chronicler of the upheavals of the early 20th century. Dos Passos drew upon his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver serving near Verdun in writing One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1920), in which an idealistic young American learns of the fear, uncertainty, and camaraderie of war through his encounters with French soldiers and civilians. The unexpurgated text presented in this edition restores passages censored by the novel's original publisher. In Three Soldiers (1921) Dos Passos engaged in a deeper exploration of World War I and its psychological impact upon an increasingly fractured civilization. The novel depicts the experiences of Fuselli, a store clerk from San Francisco pathetically eager to win promotion; Chrisfield, an Indiana farmer who comes to hate army discipline; and Andrews, an introspective aspiring composer from New York, as they fight in the final battles of the war and then confront a world in which an illusory peace offers little respite from the dehumanizing servility and regimentation of militarized life. Dos Passos described Manhattan Transfer (1925), a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in the first two decades of the 20th century, as "utterly fantastic and New Yorkish." Drawing on the naturalism of Theodore Dreiser and the modernism of James Joyce, the novel follows the rising and falling fortunes of more than a dozen characters as they move through a bewildering maze of tenements and skyscrapers in which Wall Street speculators, theatrical celebrities, impoverished immigrants, and anarchist rebels all strive to make sense out of the chaos of modern urban existence. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1931082391
ISBN-13
9781931082396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2387583

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Book Title
John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142) : One Man's Initiation: 1917 / Three Soldiers / Manhattan Transfer
Author
John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Urban, War & Military, Literary
Publication Year
2003
Book Series
Library of America John Dos Passos Edition Ser.
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
880 Pages

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8.2 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz

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Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Ps3507.O743.A6 2003
Reviews
"Anyone who tried to find some of John Dos Passos's classic novels and travel narratives in recent years would have had to look long and hard. Many of his books had been out of print. . . . Yet after years of neglect, Dos Passos's reputation is once again on the rise, and The Library of America is publishing a new collection of his writing." -- The New York Times
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-047529

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Library of America John Dos Passos Edition Ser.: John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142) : One Man's Initiation: 1917 / Three Soldiers / Manhattan Transfer by Townsend Ludington, John Dos Passos and John Dos Passos (2003, Hardcover)

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