Ragtime: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812978188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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E. L. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2014 he was honored with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.From the Hardcover edition.. Doctorow’s works of fiction include Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, T
The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-able hardbound editions of impor-tant works of literature and thought. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. The ModernLibrary continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucia
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePublished in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. P. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears