Books written by John Dos Passos

  • The Essential Thomas Paine
    The Essential Thomas Paine

    This accessible collection of highlights from the social and political philosopher's best-known works includes lengthy selections from Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

  • Manhattan Transfer
    Manhattan Transfer

    ... sprays razorsharp nickel, enamel, a dazzling sharp glass case of sharp instruments. She takes off her hat and lets herself sink manhattan transfer // 226.

  • The 42nd Parallel
    The 42nd Parallel

    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.

  • 1919
    1919

    Robbins took hold of Dick's arm. “Now for crissake let's go and have a decent drink.... Boy, I'm sick of the bigwigs.” “All right,” said Dick, “where'll we go?” Walking along the foggy quay, past the shadowly bulk of Nôtre Dâme, ...

  • The Portugal Story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
    The Portugal Story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

    Frederick J. Pohl's Amerigo Vespucci: Master Pilot rescues another historical character from an imbroglio of forgeries and misunderstandings. J. Duffy's Shipwreck and Empire offers an excellent summary of the decline of Portuguese ...

  • Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations
    Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

    Woodrow Wilson, at the governor's mansion at Sea Girt, was amazing his wife and daughters by his coolness and amusing them with imitations of T.R. in Chicago threshing his arms and whooping it up for Armageddon.

  • The Lost Generation Reader: An Anthology and History of Lost Generation Writers

    This anthologies of Lost Generation writers, shows you the work that made the movement. A short book on the history of the movement is also included in the work.Authors and works included in this anthology:E.E. CUMMINGSThe Enormous RoomT.

  • The Big Money
    The Big Money

    I halfexpected to meet you at Baden-Baden last summer. ... You are the type for Baden-Baden. It's a ridiculous place but one has to go somewhere.... Where have you been?” “Florida . . . Havana . . . that sort of thing.

  • The Men Who Made the Nation: The architects of the young republic 1782-1802
    The Men Who Made the Nation: The architects of the young republic 1782-1802

    A young Hollander who visited him in the spring, one of the first of the endless train of European travelers visiting America to see with their own eyes this liberty men talked so much about, described him: “Mr. Jefferson during my ...

  • Manhattan Transfer
    Manhattan Transfer

    SC-SPCOLL (copy 1): From the James and Margaret Beveridge Fonds.

  • The Grand Design: A Novel
    The Grand Design: A Novel

    John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the ...

  • Rosinante to the Road Again
    Rosinante to the Road Again

    Rosinante to the Road Again

  • Eight Harvard Poets
    Eight Harvard Poets

    Eight Harvard Poets

  • The Big Money
    The Big Money

    Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers.

  • John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85): The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
    John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85): The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

    Unique among American books for its epic scope and panoramic social sweep, U.S.A. has long been acknowledged as a monument of modern fiction. Now The Library of America presents an...

  • Orient Express: A Travel Memoir
    Orient Express: A Travel Memoir

    Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics.

  • Manhattan Transfer
    Manhattan Transfer

    From Wall Street to the waterfront, from the Bowery to the Village, from the city's grand avenues to its gritty alleys, its wealthy power brokers and its struggling immigrants, this kaleidoscopic novel conveys the restless energy of life in ...

  • The Best Times: An Informal Memoir
    The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

    A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories.

  • Three Soldiers
    Three Soldiers

    Wikepedia: Three Soldiers is a 1921 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre.

  • John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose
    John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose

    John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose