The Great Days by John Dos PassosRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.35MBOverview: An American named Roland Lancaster has a doomed affair with a younger woman, Elsa, in Cuba during World War II. The love story, in its happiest moments, parallels the idyllic life that author John Dos Passos had with his first wife, Katy. “The Great Days” […]
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos (The USA Trilogy, #1)Requirements: ePUB Reader, 1.5MBOverview: 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 […]
The Big Money by John Dos Passos (The USA Trilogy)Requirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 2.2 MbOverview: 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 […]
Orient Express: A Travel Memoir by John Dos PassosRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MBOverview: Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, […]
Easter Island: Island of Enigmas by John Dos PassosRequirements: .ePUB reader, 10 MBOverview: 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, […]