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Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 274
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 504 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a 'lost generation' shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war,...
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 362 pages) : illustrations, photos.
Language
English
Description
Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
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