An edition of Ragtime (1974)

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An edition of Ragtime (1974)

Ragtime

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Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.

Publish Date
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Pages
270

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Edition Availability
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1997, Modern Library
in English - Modern Library ed.
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Ragtime
1996, Plume
in English
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Ragtime
1991, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
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Ragtime
July 1980, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1976, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1976, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1975, Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1975, Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Ragtime
Ragtime
1974, Random House
in English

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ4.D6413 Rag, PS3554.O3 Rag, PS3554.O3.R3x, PS3554.O3 R3, PS3554.O3 R34 1975

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21358827M
Internet Archive
ragtimedocto00doct
ISBN 10
0394469011
LCCN
75009613
OCLC/WorldCat
71273581, 1273581, 87869945, 16934
Library Thing
25237
Wikidata
Q58879295
Goodreads
2008756

Work Description

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. Almost magically, the line between fantasy & historical fact, between real & imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud & Emiliano Zapata slip in & out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family & other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler & a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

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