Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

Overview

Love, loss, and alienation unify a collage of characters chasing the American Dream during New York’s industrial expansion. A thinly veiled critique of American capitalism from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486851334
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	10/19/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

John Dos Passos is one of the great innovators of twentieth-century world literature and one of the most influential.  His style is part of the realism of the Chicago School that starred in the so-called little renaissance in the 1920s.

 

Table of Contents

First Section
I. Ferryslip
II. Metropolis 
III. Dollars 
IV. Tracks
V. Steamroller

Second Section
I. Great Lady on a White Horse
II. Longlegged Jack of the Isthmus
III. Nine Days’ Wonder
IV. Fire Engine
V. Went to the Animals’ Fair
VI. Five Statutory Questions
VII. Rollercoaster 
VIII. One More River to Jordan

Third Section
I. Rejoicing City That Dwelt Carelessly
II. Nickelodeon 
III. Revolving Doors
IV. Skyscraper 
V. The Burthen of Nineveh