E.L. Doctorow

Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

Recounts the interrelated early twentieth-century lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvement with Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Houdini, Morgan, Freud, Zapata, and other period notables. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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Other editions: 1997, Softcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1994, 1993, Softcover - 1991, Softcover - 1989, Hardcover - 1981, 1976

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La Gran Marcha/ the March

E.L. Doctorow

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The March

E.L. Doctorow

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2005, Hardcover - 2005, 2005

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Sweet Land Stories

E.L. Doctorow

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick townhouse in rural Illinois (“A House on the Plains”), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California (“Baby Wilson”), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas (“Walter John Harmon”), and sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages to a kind of bruised but resolute independence (“Jolene: A Life”). And in the stunning “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden,” you will witness a special agent of the FBI finding himself at a personal crossroads while investigating a grave breach of White House security.

Two of these stories have already won awards as the best fiction of the year published in American periodicals, and two have been chosen for annual best-story anthologies.
Composed in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.


From the Hardcover edition.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Three Screenplays

E.L. Doctorow

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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Reporting the Universe

E.L. Doctorow

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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The Waterworks

E.L. Doctorow

A mesmerizing "New York Times" bestseller--now in paperback. In 1871, Martin Pemberton disappeared after seeing his father, long presumed dead, ride by on an omnibus. Embarking on a search for the missing man 20 years after the fact, a gruff newspaperman searches through the seamy underside of New York City.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 1997, Softcover - 1995, Softcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1994, 1994

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The Book of Daniel: A Novel

E.L. Doctorow

Doctorow's stunning novel about the children of famous "spies" now repackagedwas first published in mass market paper by Bantam.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1984, Softcover - 1984, 1971

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Lamentation 9/11

E.L. Doctorow; David Finn; Kofi A. Annan

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City of God: A Novel

E.L. Doctorow

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 2000, 2000, 2000, Hardcover - 2000

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Conversations With E. L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow; Christopher D. Morris

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999

Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New

E.L. Doctorow; Isaac Beshavis; Philip Roth; I.L. Peretz; Saul Bellow; Sholom Aleichem; Sholem Aleichem

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Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella

E.L. Doctorow

A young boy is asked to maintain the fiction that his father is alive. A young woman is shot at by a hunter. A schoolgirl dies in an exploding car. In LIVES OF THE POETS, six tense, poignant, and mysterious stories are followed by a novella which the writer emerges from his work to reveal his own mind. Here are the images and the themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrator's unsparing confessions about his own life. Separated from his family he chronicles the edgy urban landscape around him, discusses marriages that fail but continue to entangle spouses, the influence of wives and other women, and the obsessions that haunt him. And in this brilliant, funny, and painful story about the story, the writer's mind in all its aspects--its formal compositions, its naked secrets--emerges as a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.
An astonishing work, LIVES OF THE POETS varies from realistic to dreamlike to become a virtuoso performance by E.L. Doctorow, deftly done by an author in total control of his craft, aware both of the enormity of his talent...and of the price it exacts.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1990, Hardcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1984

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Drinks Before Dinner: A Play

E.L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow's only play revolves around a dinner party of the economically privileged. It is a tour-de-force of language an ideas concerning the individual's role in and response to contemporary America.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1979

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Welcome to Hard Times

E.L. Doctorow

Doctorow's magnificent first novel follows the story of how the town of Hard Times in the Dakota Territory got its name. An early example of the brilliance of Doctorow, repackaged to match World's Fair and his other bestsellers. Reprint from Bantam.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1992, 1975, 1975

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World's Fair

E.L. Doctorow

New York is the setting and a central character in this wonderfully moving and evocative novel of a boy growing up and a family surviving in the 1930s. Told in the voices of its young protoganist, his mother, and his older brother, the story unfolds against a back-ground of the grim economic realities of the Great Depression and the indomitable hopes for the future as embodied in the wondrous exhibits of New York's World's Fair. The Altschulers, living in successively smaller apartments in the Bronx, are prey to both. As the raffish father's Times Square music store slides toward failure, the warring parents live in uneasy truce for the sake of their children and the older brother drifts from promising adolescence toward impecunious young manhood. Meanwhile, the youngest son listens to Tom Mix on the radio, watches the German zeppelin HINDENBURG floating over Manhattan, cheers the Giants at the Polo Grounds and worships DiMaggio in center field at Yankee Stadium, hears grownups talking about Hitler and Roosevelt, tastes first love and other thrilling precursors of adult experience, and sees the dreamworld of the WORLD'S FAIR as the shimmering shape of things to come. This then is the way life was and the way love and pain will always be--in a superbly clear-eyed novel that may make a reader's eyes mist over with the magic of the past come to life again.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994, 1992, Softcover - 1992, Hardcover - 1988, Hardcover - 1986, Softcover - 1986, 1985, Hardcover - 1985

Billy Bathgate: A Novel

E.L. Doctorow

The bestselling, brilliantly crafted story of crime and corruption by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime, Loon Lake, and World's Fair.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1995, Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1990, Softcover - 1990, 1989, Hardcover - 1989

E.L. Doctorow: Three Complete Novels Billy Bathgate/World's Fair/Loon Lake

E.L. Doctorow

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Other editions: Softcover - 1983

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Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992

E.L. Doctorow

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has compiled his first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1993

Loon Lake

E.L. Doctorow

In the heart of the Great Depression a young drifter stumbles into another world where the wealthy buy everything from beauty to solitude and protect their purchases with casual brutality.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1982

E. L. Doctorow Reading: "The Writer in the Family"/"the Leather Man"

E.L. Doctorow

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E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography

E.L. Doctorow; Michelle M. Tokarczyk

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El Libro De Daniel/the Book of Daniel

E.L. Doctorow

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American Anthem

E.L. Doctorow; Jean-Claude Suares

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Other editions: 1982