John Dos Passos

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of …

Manhattan Transfer è un romanzo di John Dos Passos, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1925, ed in Italia nel 1932 da Corbaccio con il titolo Nuova York. Racconta le storie di alcune persone che si intrecciano e si separano tra le vie ed i palazzi sfavillanti di una New York indifferente ai destini umani, nel periodo …

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the …

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental devices that would …

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. …

Includes the works that comprised the author's ground-breaking epic, written before his U.S.A. trilogy, featuring a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City, the author's experiences as an ambulance driver in war-torn Paris, and the dehumanizing struggles of American servicemen in battle.