John Dos Passos Books In Order

U.S.A. Books In Order

  1. The 42nd Parallel (1930)
  2. 1919 (1932)
  3. The Big Money (1936)

District of Columbia Books In Order

  1. Adventures of a Young Man (1939)
  2. Number One (1943)
  3. The Grand Design (1949)

Novels

  1. One Man’s Initiation, 1917 (1920)
  2. Three Soldiers (1921)
  3. Streets of Night (1923)
  4. Manhattan Transfer (1925)
  5. First Encounter (1945)
  6. Chosen Country (1952)
  7. The Great Days (1958)
  8. Midcentury (1961)
  9. Century’s Ebb (1970)

Omnibus

  1. Novels 1920-1925 (2003)

Collections

Plays

Non fiction

  1. A Pushcart at the Curb (1922)
  2. Rosinante to the Road Again (1922)
  3. Facing the Chair (1927)
  4. Orient Express (1927)
  5. State of the Nation (1944)
  6. Tour of Duty (1946)
  7. The Ground We Stand On (1949)
  8. The Prospect Before Us (1950)
  9. The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson (1954)
  10. The Theme Is Freedom (1956)
  11. The Men Who Made the Nation (1957)
  12. Mr. Wilson’s War (1962)
  13. Brazil on the Move (1963)
  14. Thomas Jefferson, the Making of a President (1964)
  15. The Best Times (1966)
  16. The Shackles of Power (1966)
  17. The Portugal Story (1969)
  18. Easter Island (1971)
  19. The Fourteenth Chronicle (1973)
  20. John Dos Passos’ Correspondence with Arthur K.McComb (1980)
  21. The American Lawyer (1986)
  22. The Major Non-fictional Prose (1988)
  23. Afterglow and Other Undergraduate Writings (1990)
  24. Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941 (2003)

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John Dos Passos Books Overview

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. 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 the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. The trilogy opens with The 42nd Parallel, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.

1919

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 inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos Passos captures the many textures, flavors, and background noises of modern life with a cinematic touch and unparalleled nerve. 1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos’s characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.

The Big Money

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 upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. 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.

One Man’s Initiation, 1917

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Three Soldiers

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part Three: MACHINES The fields and the misty blue green woods slipped by slowly as the box car rumbled and jolted over the rails, now stopping for hours on sidings amid meadows, where it was quiet and where above the babel of voices of the regiment you could hear the skylarks, now clattering fast over bridges and along the banks of jade green rivers where the slim poplars were just coming into leaf and where now and then a fish jtamped. The men crowded in the door, grimy and tired, leaning on each other’s shoulders and watching the plowed lands slip by and the meadows where the golden green grass was dappled with buttercups, and the villages of huddled red roofs lost among pale budding trees and mas*ses of peach blossom. Through the smells of steam and coal smoke and of unwashed bodies in uniforms came smells of moist fields and of manure from fresh sowed patches and of cows and pasture lands just coming into flower. ‘Must be right smart o’ craps in this country…
. Ain’t like that damn Polingnac, Andy ?’ said Chrisfield. ‘Well they made us drill so hard there wasn’t any time for the grass to grow.’ ‘You’re damn right there warn’t.’ ‘Ah’d lak te live in this country a while,’ said Chris field. ‘We might ask ’em to let us off right here.’ ‘Can’t be that the front’s like this,’ said Judkins, poking his head out betweerjiAndrews’s and CJtirisfield’s heads so that the bristles of his unshaven chin rubbed against Chris field’s cheek. It was a large square head with closelycropped light hair and porcelain blue eyes under lids that showed white in the red sunburned face, and a square jaw made a little grey by the sprouting beard. ‘Say, Andy, how the hell long have we all been in this goddam train ?…
Ah’ve done lost track o’ the time…
.’ ‘What’s th…

Manhattan Transfer

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos’s greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an ‘expressionistic picture of New York’ New York Times in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico’s to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. More than seventy five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as ‘a novel of the very first importance’ Sinclair Lewis. It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual edged nature of the American dream.

Novels 1920-1925

Before he began the U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos prefigured his groundbreaking epic through three novels that provide a fascinating glimpse into his stunning achievement as an avant garde prose stylist while they incisively chronicle early twentieth century Europe and America. Manhattan Transfer 1925, a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City, is universally acknowledged as a modernist masterpiece. This lyrical, exuberantly experimental novel orchestrates the rising and falling fortunes of more than a dozen characters: Wall Street speculators, theatrical celebrities, impoverished immigrants, bootleggers, and anarchist rebels move through a maze of tenements and skyscrapers. The impressionistic One Man’s Initiation: 1917 1920 draws upon Dos Passos’ experiences driving ambulances in France to portray the fear, uncertainty, and camaraderie of war. This Library of America edition includes passages censored by the book’s original publisher. Three Soldiers 1921, here with the author’s own introduction, delves deeply into the spiritual toll of war, dramatizing American servicemen fighting in battle, struggling against dehumanizing military regimentation, and experiencing the chaotic pleasures of Paris. Along with its companion volumes Travel Books and Other Writings see opposite page and U.S.A. Library of America, 1996, Novels 1920 1925 enriches our understanding of Dos Passos as a writer, thinker, and witness to history.

Rosinante to the Road Again

ROSI ANTE TO THE RO14D AGAIN By JOHN DOS PASSOS GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CONTENTS CHAPTER I A Gesture and a. Quest, g II The Donkey Boy, 24 III The Baker of Almorox, 47 IV Talk by the Road, 71 V A Novelist of Revolution, 80 VI Talk by the Road, 101 VII Cordova No Longer of the Caliphs, 104 VIII Talk by the Road, 115 IX A n Inverted Midas, I2O X Talk by the Road, 133 XI Antonio Machado. Poet of Castile, 140 XII A Catalan Poet, 159 XIII Talk by the Road, 176 XIV Benaventes Madrid, 182 XV Talk by the Road, 196 XVI A Funeral in Madrid, 2O2 XVII Toledo, 230 ROSINANTE ID Rosinante to the Road Again A Gesture and a Quest TELEMACHUS had wandered so far in search of his father he had quite forgotten what he was looking for. He sat on a yellow plush bench in the cafe El Oro del Rhin, Plaza Santa Ana, Madrid, swabbing up with a bit of bread the last smudges of brown sauce off a plate of which the edges were piled with the dis membered skeleton of a pigeon. Opposite Ms plate was a similar plate his companion had already polished. Telemachus put the last piece of bread into his mouth, drank down a glass of beer at one spasmodic gulp, sighed, leaned across the table and said I wonder why Im here. Why anywhere else than here said Lyaeus, 9 Rosinante to the Road Again a young man with hollow cheeks and slow moving hands, about whose mouth a faint pained smile was continually hovering, and he too drank down his beer. At the end of a perspective of white marble tables, faces thrust forward over yellow plush cushions under twining veils of tobacco smoke, four German women on a little dais were playing TawiJiamer. Smells of beer, sawdust, shrimps, roast pigeon. Do you know Jorge Manrique Thats one reason, Tel, the other man continued slowly. With one hand he gestured to the waiter for more beer, the other he waved across his face as if to brush away the music then he recited, pro nouncing the words haltingly Recuerde el alma dormida, Avive el seso y despierte Contemplando Como se pasa la vida, Como se viene la muerte Tan callando Cuan presto se va el placer, Coma despues de acordado 10 A Gesture and a Quest Da dolor, Como a nuestro parecer Cualquier tlempo pasado Fue mejor. Its always death, said Telemachus, but we must go on. It had been raining. Lights rippled red and orange and yellow and green on the clean paving stones. A cold wind off the Sierra shrilled through clattering streets. As they walked, the other man was telling how this Castilian noble man, courtier, man at arms, had shut himself up when his father, the Master of Santiago, died and had written this poem, created this tremendous rhythm of death sweeping like a wind over the world. He had never written anything else. They thought of him in the court of his great dust colored mansion at Ocana, where the broad eaves were full of a cooing of pigeons and the wide halls had dark rafters painted with ara besques in vermilion, in a suit of black velvet, writing at a table under a lemon tree. Down the sun scarred street, in the cathedral that was building in those days, full of a smell of scaffold en Rosinante to the Road Again ing and stone dust, there must have stood a tre mendous catafalque where lay with his arms around him the Master of Santiago in the carved seats of the choirs the stout canons intoned an endless growling litany at the sacristy door, the flare of the candles flashing occasionally on the jewels of his mitre, the bishop fingered his crosier restlessly, asking his favorite choir boy from time to time why Don Jorge had not arrived…

The American Lawyer

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Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

John Dos Passos witnessed the modern era’s defining events and distilled their literary essence into an innovative, trademark pastiche style: ‘something like a multimedia event’ in book form, wrote The New Yorker. As an ambulance driver during World War I, as an eyewitness to the Spanish Civil War, Italian Fascism, Mexican social upheaval, and post revolutionary shifts in Russia and Central Asia, and as a participant in protests in the United States, Dos Passos charted cataclysms and his evolving response to them before the ink had dried in the history books. Now The Library of America restores to print his vibrant travel books Rosinante to the Road Again 1922, Orient Express 1927, In All Countries 1934, and the Spanish Civil War material added to Journeys Between Wars 1938 American classics Dos Passos wrote concurrently with his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer see opposite page, and U.S.A. Featured in this edition are full color reproductions of Dos Passos’ own remarkably vivid Orient Express watercolors. This volume also restores to print the rare travel poems cycle A Pushcart at the Curb 1922; political and literary essays that dramatize his complicated relationship with communism; and a selection of early letters and diaries from World War I.

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