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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)

by John Dos Passos, Daniel Aaron, Townsend Lundinton

Unique for its epic scale and panoramic social sweep, Dos Passos' masterpiece comprises three novels--"The 42nd Parallel," "1919," and "The Big Money"--which create an unforgettable collective portrait of modern America. This one-volume edition includes detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events which serve as a backdrop.

Three Soldiers

by John Dos Passos

Based on his personal experiences in France during the First World War, Dos Passos' novel is a fierce denunciation of the military.

Silver Salts

by Mark Blagrave

Lillie Dempster, of Saint John, New Brunswick often imagines herself on the big screen in flickering silver lights. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. Set in the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie's life plays out like that of the distressed damsels from the silent films she loves. Orphaned by the Great War and the Spanish influenza at fourteen, Lillie is... (more)

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of... (more)

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