Description
Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/01/1997
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780141180274
ISBN10: 0141180277
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/01/1997
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780141180274
ISBN10: 0141180277
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
About the Author
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he is an American classic of the twentieth century.