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John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142)

One Man's Initiation: 1917 / Three Soldiers / Manhattan Transfer

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ludington, Townsend
  • ISBN: 978-1-931082-39-6
  • EAN: 9781931082396
  • Produktnummer: 21963056
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.0 cm 578 g
  • Gewicht: 578

Über den Autor


John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century.Townsend Ludington, volume editor, is Cary C. Boshamer Professor of English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina and author of John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey.

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