San Antonio College Library

When two thirteen-year-olds discover a dead man, a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.

A fresh look at Dos Passos in the context of his life and his times, and a reconsideration of his literary works, with particular attention given to the trilogy U.S.A. which is presented as a book of its author's memories.

In most of his half century of writing, John Dos Passos consistently tried to capture and define the American character. The complete range of his work builds to Dos Passos' concept of "contemporary chronicle," his own name for his fiction. In this first study of all Dos Passos' writing, Linda W. Wagner examines his fiction, poetry, drama, travel essays, and history--a body of work that evokes a vivid image of America meant to be neither judgmental...

"This book offers a perfect introduction to contemporary American novels and their authors. John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Thomas Wolfe, John Marquand, James Farrell, John Steinbeck are men whose books have a permanent place in American Literature. Out of his long critical experience, Professor Beach explains what each of these eight men -- revolutionaries in their different ways -- is trying to do, and how...

Collection of hitherto unpublished critical essays on American fiction, poetry, and drama of the 1930's.

Criticism of Theodore Dreiser, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Upton Sinclair, Willa Cather, Van Wyck Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, James Branch Cabell, Robinson Jeffers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.