Results for "Doctorow, E. L."

The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of ReadersAn immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo’s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and ... Read More about Johnny Got His Gun

Daniel R. Williams, former lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, tells the full story of the trial and ongoing struggle for Abu-Jamal's freedom, and interrogates the United States's commitment to capital punishment. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of three well-received books ... Read More about Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroni... Read More about The New York Stories

This long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent and popular writers appears in paperback for the first time. Drinks Before Dinner, called "witty and provocative" by the New York Times, is E.L. Doctorow's only play. A tour-de-force of language and ideas concerning the individual's role i... Read More about Drinks Before Dinner

This chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism by the author of Heart of Darkness is the literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of Graham Greene and John Le Carré. Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent portrays the world of late-nin... Read More about The Secret Agent

A short collection of essays about the Jazz Age by the writer who epitomized it, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even theAmerican Heritage Dictionary acknowledges that F. Scott Fitzgerald “epitomized the Jazz Age.” And nowhere among his writings are the gin, pith, and morning-after squint of that era bett... Read More about The Jazz Age: Essays