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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
London's epic of the great outdoors from 1903 tells the story of Buck, a dog taken from his safe home and thrust into the brutal Arctic north of the Yukon wilderness. It is published with the novel "White Fang", the story of an abused wolf-dog, and the marvelously desolate short story, "To Build a Fire".
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 ...
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. ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Bloom's Guides - successor to the acclaimed Bloom's Notes and Bloom's Reviews Comprehensive reading and study guides with a selection of critical excerpts providing a scholarly overview of each work Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, plus an annotated ...
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