An edition of John Dos Passos
(1980)
John Dos Passos
a twentieth century odyssey
1st ed.
by Townsend Ludington
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This authorized biography of John Dos Passos is both important and highly engaging -- important because it provides a portrait-in-action of one of the ablest American writers of this century, searching critiques of all his works, and straightforward analyses of the complex political and social backgrounds out of which they grew; and engaging because of this shy, modest, friendly, endearing, and indefatigable man whose sterling character springs out of every page. - Carlos Baker, on back of jacket.
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John Dos Passos: a twentieth century odyssey
1998, Carroll & Graf
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- 1st Carrol & Graf ed.
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John Dos Passos: a twentieth century odyssey
1980, Dutton
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in English
- 1st ed.
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Table of Contents
Special acknowledgments and a word about the text
Part 1 : A hotel childhood, 1896-1912.
Birth and parentage
Early education, 1898-1911
Westmoreland, Virginia, and the grand tour, 1911-1912
Part 2 : Harvard and Spain, 1912-1917.
Harvard : the first years, 1912-1915
Senior year, 1915-1916
A summer of writing, 1916
Spain, 1916-1917
Part 3 : The Great War and after, 1917-1920.
Home to America, Spring 1917
The war in France, 1917
Paris and Italy, 1917-1918
America and France again, 1918-1919
Literary wanderings in Europe, 1919-1920
Part 4 : The Jazz Age, 1920-1929.
New York, Europe, and the Near East, 1920-1922
The literary life : New York and Paris, 1922-1924
Literary experimentalism, travel as always, and politics, 1924-1926
Arrival at the political left, 1926-1928
Russia and marriage, 1928-1929
Part 5 : The Great Depression, 1930-1936.
America's leading proletarian writer, 1930-1931
Political ambivalence, 1932
A Spanish summer, 1933
Key West, Hollywood, and political disagreements, 1934
Politics and The Big Money, 1935-1936
Part 6 : Departure from the left, 1937-1941.
Crisis in Spain, 1937
Farewell to Europe, 1937-1939
A new ground to stand on, 1940-1941
Part 7 : Years of war and grief, 1941-1947.
World War II : the domestic scene, 1941-1944
World War II : the Pacific and the wreckage of Europe, 1944-1945
My sweet my lost love, 1946-1947
Part 8 : A new life, 1948-1960.
Travels to new lands and marriage, 1948-1949
Virginia, the chosen country, 1949-1950
A question of loyalties, 1951-1956
New ventures and reflections on past defeats, 1956-1960
Part 9 : Century's ebb, 1960-1970.
Midcentury and embracing the Republican right, 1960-1962
An unflagging desire to write, 1963-1967
The last years, 1967-1970
A last forlorn chronicle of despair
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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