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Ragtime
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Ragtime (1975) (edit title/settings)

by E. L. Doctorow (Author) (edit contributors)

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Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.

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Ragtime is set in America at the beginning of the 20th Century. Its characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with people whose names are Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, Emiliano Zapata.

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Ragtime is set in America at the beginning of the 20th Century. Its characters: three remarkable families whose lives become entwined with people whose names are Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, Emiliano Zapata.

This is an epic tale of America in the early 20th Century. The story begins in 1902 and ends just after World War I. Major themes include race relations, treatment of immigrants, and the rapidly changing way of life in America.

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  • “America was a great farting country.”

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In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York.

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This is book 154 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Day of the Locust, and followed by Advise and Consent.

This is book 1 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1975. (authoritative list)

Followed by The Moneychangers.

This is book 335 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Correction, and followed by The Fan Man.

This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)

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  1. E. L. Doctorow (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0394469011
Page Count: 270

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  • Library of Congress: PS3554 .O3 R3
  • Dewey: 818'.54

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