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Manhattan Transfer
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard'Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. …
U.S.a.
Häftad, 2001
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
269 kr
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'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'Wonderful and extraordinary'Robert McCrum, Observer'No novelist in America has written more sombrely of the dangers to individual integrity in a centrally controlled society'Alfred KazinThe Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos …
U.S.A.: The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and the Big Money]
Häftad, 2024
387 kr
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Manhattan Transfer
E-bok, 2000
102 kr
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A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels.
Men Who Made the Nation
The architects of the young republic 1782-1802
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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For this history, Dos Passos returns to the American colonial period and early nationhood, exploring the personalities who won the nation’s independence from England: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, and George Washington. Originally called “The World Turned Upside Down,” The Men Who …
Easter Island
Island of Enigmas
E-bok, 2011
126 kr
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Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois. “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum. There I …
Portugal Story
Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
E-bok, 2011
272 kr
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This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research. “Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a …
Brazil on the Move
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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John Dos Passos, the distinguished American novelist and historian has been personally interested in Brazil for the last fifteen years. He first visited the country in 1948, and returned again in 1956 and 1962. This book, which is based on his experiences in Brazil, presents the people and …
The Men Who Made the Nation: The Architects of the Young Republic 1782-1802
Häftad, 1995
315 kr
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The Everlasting Man
Av G. K. Chesterton, John DOS Passos
Häftad, 2007
231 kr
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This classic exploration of human history vis-à-vis its link to Christianity ponders the question: What makes human beings uniquely human? In this thoughtful response to the rampant social Darwinism of the early twentieth century, G. K. Chesterton explains how religion a blend of philosophy and …
42nd Parallel
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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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 …
One Man's Initiation
1917
Häftad, 1986
820 kr
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Based on the author's first-hand experience as an ambulance driver during World War I, this first novel is noteworthy for its vivid and colorful portrait of France at that time and for its passionate indictment of war. The author's disillusionment with war, for a time, turned him toward socialism …
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