John Dos Passos

Love, loss, and alienation unify a collage of characters chasing the American Dream during New York’s industrial expansion. A thinly veiled critique of American capitalism from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.

Three Soldiers is a 1921 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of The Smart Set. …