5/2/2023 0 Comments Ragtime el doctorow![]() * For courier service please contact the Charing Cross Road store Please wait for order arrival confirmation email before making a journey to collect. Individual despatch times for each item will be given at checkout. Collection times will vary depending on availability of items. During checkout we will give you a cumulative estimated date for delivery.įree UK Standard Delivery on Orders Over £25 (2nd Class)Ĭlick and Collect and Delivery to Store is available for all our shops. ![]() These should be added to the availability message time, to determine when the goods will arrive. 'One of the best American novels for years'Īll delivery times quoted are the average, and cannot be guaranteed. Mr Doctorow knows what he is doing and has done it beautifully' 'Witty, lyrical, put together with admirable craft. 'In its perfection it stuns and holds from beginning to end' If you enjoyed Ragtime, you might like John Dos Passos' U.S.A., also available in Penguin Classics. Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of nine novels that have explored the drama of American life from the late 19th century to the 21st, including Ragtime, The Book of Daniel and Billy Bathgate. Doctorow (b.1931) is one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers. In this stunningly original chronicle of an age, such real-life characters intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP, to create a dazzling literary mosaic that brings to life an era of dire poverty, fabulous wealth, and incredible change - in short, the era of ragtime.Į.L. Emma Goldman preaches free love and feminism, while ex-chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt inspires a mad millionaire to murder the architect Stanford White. Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Al Alvarez. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L.
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