U.S.A.: I. The 42nd Parallel; II. Nineteen Nineteen; III. The Big Money (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML Giant G44)

Dos Passos, John

Published by The Modern Library, 1937

About this Item

1945-54 printing of Toledano G044.1, binding/jacket style G5/Gd. Hinges weakening, jacket rubbed with minor loss from corners, ink name and date on front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. 1937 Hard Cover. Three books in one volume, paginated separately. viii, 415; viii, 473; viii, 561. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4. The magnum opus of the author associated with two important literary movements: Modernism and the Lost Generation. Dos Passos was a social revolutionary with leanings towards communism, and a contemporary and (at one time) friend of Ernest Hemingway. The trilogy relates the events of 1900-1930 in the United States, experimenting with multiple narrative techniques, interspersing newspaper clippings and stream of consciousness narratives with short biographical pieces and twelve different narrative threads. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 - September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist. The U.S.A. Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919, also known as Nineteen Nineteen (1932), and The Big Money (1936). The three books were first published together as a one-volume edition in 1938, to which the author added the prologue labeled 'U.S.A.' The trilogy employs an experimental technique, incorporating four different narrative modes: fictional narratives telling the life stories of twelve fictional characters; collages of newspaper clippings and song lyrics labeled 'Newsreel'; individually labeled short biographies of public figures of the time such as Woodrow Wilson and Henry Ford; and fragments of autobiographical stream of consciousness writing labeled 'Camera Eye.' The trilogy covers the historical development of American society during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: U.S.A.: I. The 42nd Parallel; II. Nineteen Nineteen; III. The Big Money (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML Giant G44)
• Publisher: The Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1937
• Language: English
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Reissue.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 42 ounces