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This first entry in John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy paints a grand picture of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century.

The Big Money completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" ( American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" ( Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing.

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of 20th-century America" ( Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope but also for its groundbreaking style. The novel opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl.

In Three Soldiers, Dos Passos introduces listeners to a Harvard aesthete who joins the army out of idealism, and his two buddies. One by one, their illusions crumble under the tyranny, red tape, and boredom of the military. The soldiers' reactions range from bitterness to rage, and - for one - murder in this vivid portrayal of human spirit caught in the grip of war.

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos' greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From 14th Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.   

This is the story of the war we won and the peace we lost, told with a clear historical perspective and a warm interest in the remarkable people who guided the United States through one of the most crucial periods. Foremost in the cast of characters is Woodrow Wilson, the shy, brilliant, revered, and misunderstood "schoolmaster", whose administration was a complex of apparent contradictions.

When John Dos Passos published this book in 1921, its explosive portrait of World War I shocked America. Instead of glorifying the Great War, he shows three men caught in a military machine that is as dangerous for them as the foreign terrain and the enemies they fight. Fuselli leaves San Francisco for the front lines in France, anxious to move up the military ladder of success. Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana, feels himself swept along as he marches in a sea of other soldiers.

Springing from the author's first-hand experience as an ambulance driver and Red Cross worker during World War I, this autobiographical first novel is noteworthy for its vivid and colorful evocation of France at that time and for its passionate indictment of war. The author's disillusionment with war for a time turned him toward socialism and against capitalism.

A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings...

Making allusions to Don Quixote's wanderings on his trusty steed Rosinante, American novelist John Dos Passos creates a story of two travelers making their way by foot from Madrid to Toledo in post-World War I Spain. Along the way, they encounter simple, earthy folk on the trail and in taverns, thus providing a convenient backdrop for Dos Passos's observations on the tension between old agrarian ways and new industrial imperatives.

The New York Classics Collection: Stories of the City brings together 11 of the greatest works of fiction ever written about New York City, collected into one audiobook. Featuring a sweeping history of New York City in Washington Irving's History of New York, tales of the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby; love and deception in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; alongside many more grand stories from 18th and 19th century, this collection will whisk you away into the high and low of the city that never sleeps, with some of the greatest novels ever written.

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless...

Esta espléndida novela cuenta cómo el protagonista, rodeado de cientos de personas que viven en su ciudad, que actúan junto a él y a veces se cruzan con él, intenta vivir en Nueva York durante los años que anteceden y siguen a la Primera Guerra Mundial.

NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES. This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these...

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervor and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare.

Come la Parigi di Baudelaire, la Londra di Eliot e la Berlino di Döblin, la New York di Dos Passos è un universo esiziale, realistico e fantastico al tempo stesso: la città - caleidoscopio di colori, suoni, odori - è un essere vivente fatto di nervi e cuore, un organismo che mette al mondo i propri figli, li cresce ma allo stesso tempo brama di divorarli. "Manhattan Transfer", romanzo lirico e visionario, è opera di linguaggio, di stile, di scrittura ma è anche una riflessione sulla condizione dell'uomo nella metropoli.

After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first...

Von Konstantinopel aus unternimmt der 25-jährige John Dos Passos 1921 eine Reise durch den Orient. Er sieht die Zerstörungen des Türkisch-Griechischen Kriegs. Er verbringt drei Wochen in Bagdad und beobachtet die Neuordnung des Irak durch die Briten, schreibt über die Ermordung der Armenier, über islamischen Fundamentalismus. Er lässt sich einen Bart wachsen und überredet die Chefin des britischen Nachrichtendienstes, ihn bei einer Expedition durch die syrische Wüste zu unterstützen.

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.” Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...

The Big Money (Volume Three of the USA Trilogy) by John Dos Passos---Welcome and Introduction - 00:24Henry Ford and The Tin Lizzy - 01:00Dissecting Leadership Like Gossamer - 15:45Little Mary French - 18:15The Past is a Different Country - 23:15The Practical Engineers at Kitty Hawk - 27:30Leadership Isn't Supposed to Make You Happy   - 37:15The Prairie House Style Architect - 43:04Where Are All the Grown-Ups?- 52:25Staying on the Path - 59:35---Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON!Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great ...