BOOKS by E L Doctorow

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 3

sort by

1	Homer & Langley more books like this by E L Doctorow add to wishlist From "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" to "The Book of Daniel," Doctorow's novels comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. With "Homer & Langley," the master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. see all copies from $12.55! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The March more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale of Sherman's march to the sea--a 60-mile trail of death and destruction--toward the end of the Civil War. Mingling real historical figures with imagined ordinary people, Doctorow offers a panoramic view of the South and of the war in a story that encompasses a dedicated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ragtime more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Doctorow's novel takes place in turn-of-the-century New York, and mingles real-life and fictional characters. The plot involves the Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White intrigue, but also includes a black musician and his girlfriend, a Jewish peddler on the Lower East Side, and a coterie of wealthy Anglo-Saxons in pursuit of wealth. Time magazine called ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Billy Bathgate more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist On Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx of the Great Depression, Billy spends his boyhood being groomed as an apprentice thug working for the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. When he falls in love with Drew, his boss's girl, he begins to think that the life of a mobster may not be the glamorous world he expected, and he resolves to take Drew away from it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	City of God more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Set in late 20th-century New York City, Doctorow's capacious and very postmodern novel begins when a brass crucifix is stolen from St. Timothy's church on the Lower East Side. The pastor, Father Pemberton, is in the midst of a spiritual crisis, and as he searches for the cross through a lyrically described New York City, he encounters a group of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Book of Daniel more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Doctorow examines the Rosenberg case, in which two Americans were executed for supposed treason, from the point of view of their son--here called Daniel Isaacson--who was 10 years old when his parents died. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Waterworks more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Set in 1871, in post-Civil War New York, where maimed veterans beg in the streets and a self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect glitters in this setting of mass misery. One morning a young man walking down Broadway sees someone he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Best American Short Stories more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow (Selected by), Katrina Kenison add to wishlist This edition of the yearly anthology represents work and characters of many cultures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.18! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Creationists: Selected Essays 1993-2006 more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow (Read by) add to wishlist Through the eyes of a great American writer, readers will consider the secrets of literary creativity and whether they're different for science or slapstick comedy. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $6.49! \| first editions \| SVS
10	World's Fair more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Set in Manhattan and the Bronx in 1939, Doctorow's nostalgic novel is a slice of life seen through the eyes of a young boy who is distracted from the hardships of his own life by the dazzling promise of the World's Fair. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Welcome to Hard Times more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Set in the town of Hard Times in the Dakota Territory, Doctorow's early novel is his only Western. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Loon Lake more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist Doctorow's 1980 novel is experimental in style and structure. The story--an exploration of the validity of the American dream, set during the Depression--is told not in a straight line but in concentric circles--like ripples on a lake. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Lives of the Poets more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal more books like this by Daniel R Williams, Mr. E L Doctorow (Foreword by) add to wishlist This casebook on the Mumia Abu-Jamal case was written by one of his lawyers and contains the defense's side of the story as well as a chronicle of the long appeals process. In 1982, Abu-Jamal, a journalist, was convicted of killing a police officer and has been serving time on death-row since. His cause has been taken up by many supporters ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Gotham Comes of Age: New York Through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892-1942 more books like this by Peter Simmons, Mr. E L Doctorow (Introduction by) add to wishlist Over a fifty-year run as an eminent New York photography studio, the Byron Company documented the maturation of a great metropolis. The Byron family took tens of thousands of photographs between 1892 and 1942, making a name for their studio in theatrical, architectural, and what would now be called "lifestyle" photography. All doors were open to ... see all copies from $6.10! new only from $12.98! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Best American Short Stories 2000 more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Editor) add to wishlist This edition of the yearly anthology represents work and characters of many cultures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Three Screenplays more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow, Paul Levine (Editor) add to wishlist E.L. Doctorow is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st. ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $11.44! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Drinks Before Dinner more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist E. L. Doctorow's only play. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Reporting the Universe more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist "The writer", according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported". And what writer worth his name, E.L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously however furtively, take on the universe? Human consciousness, personal history, American ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist A son is set the task of concealing his father's death; a drowned child is callously handled by rescuers; a lonely schoolteacher is shot by a hunter; a boy witnesses his mother's act of infidelity; a car explosion kills a foreign schoolgirl; and the middle-aged author of these tales depicts his own consciousness. In a perceptive work about a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Billy Bathgate M/TV more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22	E.L. Doctorow: Three Complete Novels more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow add to wishlist The bestselling author of Ragtime presents three of his astonishing novels in one volume: Billy Bathgate, World's Fair, and Loon Lake.672 pp. Orig. $48.85. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Jazz Age more books like this by F Scott Fitzgerald, Mr. E L Doctorow (Introduction by) add to wishlist F. Scott Fitzgerald's story collection TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE, first published in 1922, contains some of his most celebrated short pieces, including "Winter Dreams," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (a story Fitzgerald said was "designed utterly for my own amusement"), "The Jelly Bean," and "May Day"(which in his introduction he called "a somewhat ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.08! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Scenes and Sequences: Recent Monotypes more books like this by Eric Fischl, James Cuno (Photographer), E. L. Doctorow (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $50.09! \| first editions
25 view cover	The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis-KJV more books like this by Mr. E L Doctorow (Introduction by) add to wishlist Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions

Page 1 of 3: 1 2 3 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini see all from $1.99! new only from $4.00!
	The Best American Short Stories by E Annie Proulx (Introduction by), Katrina Kenison (Editor) see all from $1.99! new only from $11.76!
	Best American Short Stories by Garrison Keillor (Introduction by), Katrina Kenison (Foreword by) see all from $1.99! new only from $2.69!
	Flappers and Philosophers by F Scott Fitzgerald see all from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
	John Adams by David McCullough see all from $1.99! new only from $3.88!
	On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu Jamal by Terry Bisson see all from $1.99! new only from $2.98!