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U.S.a. by John Dos Passos
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.24'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... -
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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'... -
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos 9780593312056
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312056Author John Dos PassosFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
One Man's Initiation: 1917 by John Dos Passos 9780819153609
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One Man's Initiation—1917 (Edition2024) by John Dos Passos 9789364288194
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism by Seth Moglen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most... -
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U.S.A.: The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and the Big Money] by John Dos Passos 9780063351530
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063351530Author John Dos PassosFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint -
Censorship in the Third Reich: A Case Study on John Dos Passos by Miguel Araújo Oliveira 9783769327878
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The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War by J. Alison Rosenblitt 9780393868319
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.32Intimate and richly detailed, The Beauty of Living begins with Cummings's Cambridge, Massachusetts upbringing and his relationship with his socially progressive but domestically domineering father... -
The Secret Book Of Frida Kahlo: A Novel by F. G. Haghenbeck 9781451632835
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.66One of Mexico's most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo's fascinating life and loves.When several notebooks were recently discovered... -
Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape by Douglas Reichert Powell 9780807857946
Booksplease Price: £40.26The idea of ""region"" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste... -
Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s by Amy Koritz 9780252033841
Booksplease Price: £47.94In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in... -
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway 9780684837895
Booksplease Price: £13.09Describes the rivalry of two Spanish matadors, brothers-in-law, and their competition in one season of bullfights.Book InformationISBN 9780684837895Author Ernest HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Dos Passos: Artist as American by Linda W. Wagner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In most of his half century of writing, John Dos Passos consistently tried to capture and define the American character. The complete range of his work builds to Dos Passos' concept of "contemporary... -
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English... -
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things: A Novel by Gilbert Sorrentino 9781564784704
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Wildly comic and bitterly satiric, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is Gilbert Sorrentino's ruthless, and timeless, attack on the New York art world of the 1950s and '60s. Among the best of... -
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway 9780684804521
Booksplease Price: £11.55The erotic novel that Hemingway suppressed during his own lifetime is set in the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s and tells the story of David Bourne, his glamorous wife, and the dangerous sexual games they... -
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life by Michael Katakis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £6.17For many, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman, lover, expat and, of course, writer. But the actual life beneath these various legends remains... -
SELECTED WRIT CENDRARS PA by Blaise Cendrars 9780811218887
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.50One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and... -
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 9780684830490
Booksplease Price: £14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1953.Book InformationISBN 9780684830490Author Ernest Hemingway -
Understanding Randall Kenan by James A. Crank 9781643361888
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics... -
Understanding Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr 9781570036156
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68The definitive introduction to the complex author of ""The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."" Updated with a discussion of recent scholarship, ""Understanding Carson McCullers"" provides a balanced... -
In Our Time by Tom Wolfe 9781250352620
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £9.88In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe's essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1970s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor-sharp... -
Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup: Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America by George Monteiro 9781433138102
RRP: £85.25Booksplease Price: £75.42Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. The book discusses subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of... -
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Richard Rhodes 9781471126178 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.85The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to... -
Carlos Chavez and His World by Leonora Saavedra 9780691169484
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country,... -
After Utopia: The Rise of Critical Space in Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Nicholas Spencer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London,... -
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Immersive, tense, seductive' - Sunday Times'Unputdownable' - Sunday ExpressScott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests... -
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Villa America by Liza Klaussmann 9781447212096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'Immersive, tense, seductive' - Sunday Times'Unputdownable' - Sunday ExpressScott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests... -
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes 9780452273870
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.36A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California's fields... -
The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux 9780340828908
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph... -
The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781471173936
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40**The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition** With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing'There was music from my... -
Waiting at the Shore: Art, Revolution, War & Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla by Paul Quintanilla 9781845195977
Booksplease Price: £38.54Waiting at the Shore chronicles the extraordinary life of the Spanish artist Luis Quintanilla, championed by Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Elliot Paul, and many other American and European... -
I'd Die for You: And Other Lost Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781471164736
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** 'This belated collection shows us the depths of Fitzgerald's vision and talent. Only now are we beginning to appreciate what was lost' The PoolI'd Die for You... -
Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A petty thief is bested by a widow and her card-playing friends; a farmer must cope with raising his baby granddaughter; a train engineer inadvertently causes a major disaster and finds himself... -
The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781471195129
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved American classic. First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now... -
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780141187815
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by... -
Old Crimes: and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle 9781616209735
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers" -Rebecca Makkai), brings us a... -
War Stories: Reporting in the tTime of Conflict from The Crimea to Iraq by Harold Evans 9781593730055
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.40The war correspondent trails clouds of glory. The names of the pioneers of the trade are stardust: Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Dumas, Henry Villard, Winston Churchill, Stephen Crane, John Reed,...