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John Dos Passos
Author
Series
U.S.A volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of 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.
Author
Series
U.S.A volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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...
3) 1919
Author
Series
U.S.A volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Contains American author John Dos Passo's epic "U.S.A." trilogy which provides a collective portrait of America following dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the beginning of the Depression.
Series
Criterion collection volume 935
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar recounts to the young Antonio Galvan the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez, warning his listener to gird himself against her charms.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Morocco: a cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love.
Blonde Venus: an aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment.
The devil is a woman: at the turn of the century, in the port town of...