books by E.L. Doctorow     books:       The Book of Daniel E.L. Doctorow Random House / Bantam Book, 1979 One of the great novels of our time, The Book of Daniel explodes with the passion of a hero's rage with life. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel Isaacson composes something quite different....             Sister Carrie106 reviews Theodore Dreiser Bantam Classics, 1982 Fractured Fairy Tale and/or Horror Story on Capitalism "Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth." Mahatma Gandhi "She (Carrie Meeber) wanted pleasure, she wanted position, and yet she was confused as to what these things might be." p. 145 "Sister Carrie" Critics may scoff at the immorality of the main characters, the persistently subtle, yet always stinging slams at ...             The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)68 reviews Joseph Conrad Signet Classics, 2007 Suspenseful & ironic: A Conrad classic Based on a true incident, Conrad tells the story of Verloc, the secret agent provocateur who is given the task of blowing up the Royal Observatory in London as a way of heaping scorn on anarchists in England. He sends his mentally deficient brother-in-law Stevie with the bomb, which blows up before he can reach the observatory. Stevie is annihilated and when Verloc's wife (Winnie) finds out what ...             Amerika26 reviews Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, ... Schocken, 1996 A few impressions There is an excellent review of this book on 'The Amazon site' by AJ Feinsinger that captures the story of this work, and much of its strangeness. I am only adding a few impressions of my own. First I concur with the observation that this is a book written by a person who has never been in America. I remember reading it years ago, and how it seemed to me the very opposite of everything America ...             Voices of Sag Harbor: A Village Remembered Edited by Nina Tobier with a Foreword by E. L. Doctorow Harbor Electronic Publishing, 2007 Voices of Sag Harbor collects more than 80 reminiscences about life in Sag Harbor, NY. It's a broad range of voices and backgrounds, all bound together by their fierce attachment to Sag Harbor and their awareness that despite the many profound changes that have taken place over the past several decades, this is a village that still holds them close. As E. L. Doctorow notes in his Foreword, Sag Harbor is a modestly lovely creation, human in ...             The Call of the Wild (Library of America)338 reviews Jack London Vintage, 1990 Jack London - Part Prolific Novelist, Part Wolf After reading "The Call of the Wild" or more precisely, after being transferred to another place and time, or even more to the point after being totally submerged into the being of this animal, I'm left completely awe-struck by London's work. To see what Buck saw, to feel the forces and the instincts that he felt... that is the power of this book. Here's a passage from the third chaper to ...             The March159 reviews E. L. Doctorow Books on Tape, 2005 Mission Accomplished? It felt wonderful to be in the hands of this graceful, stately storyteller again. I have never been much of a Civil War buff, but this novel has made me long for Ken Burns' cellphone number. As usual with Doctorow, The March presents real events as lived by a cavalcade of fictional and real characters. Pearl, the girl who finds love for the father who is also her owner, is one of Doctorow's ...             Karoo: A Novel12 reviews Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow Grove Press, Open City Books, 2004 Buy it, Steal it, Read it! Quite simply, one of the best books I have read. Tesichs' insights, observations, and descriptions of situations are so disturbingly real, you find yourself alternately hating/loving Saul Karoo, the subject of the novel. Karoo is described as something of an anti-hero, however 'Everyman' would be more apt as I defy anyone who reads this book not to identify with him in any number of situations - ...             Billy Bathgate32 reviews E.L. Doctorow Random House, 1989 Always reliable Doctorow I had read "The March" and "Ragtime," so I figured "Billy Bathgate" would be excellent, and it was. On the surface, it's a simple story of the last few months of gangster Dutch Schultz's life. But Doctorow tells the story through the eyes of Billy Bathgate, a teenager who gets in with Schultz's gang as a go-fer. Doctorow's writing is, as always, superb, and more than just a recitation of ...             The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire (Modern Library Classics)4 reviews Jack London Modern Library, 2002 Jack London's Finest Fictional Work (?) These three stories are amongst London's best fictional works- some say they *are* the best, especially, "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", it all depends on one's taste, of course, but rest assured, these stories are gripping and the intrigue of their moving plots keeps one glued to the book. As a freind once said of "Call..." and "...Fang": "These are just about the two doggone best ...             Welcome to Hard Times: A Novel17 reviews E.L. Doctorow Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Impressive genesis of a legendary writing career E.L. Doctorow's "Welcome to Hard Times" a taut, unadorned tale about the Old West was a foreshadowing of the unmatched literary style of this author. Always displaying mastery in the genre of historical fiction, Doctorow accurately depicts the desolate and often hopeless lifestyle experienced by the pioneers of the western frontier. Set in the Dakota Territory a small town that owed it's ...             World's Fair: A Novel21 reviews E.L. Doctorow Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Historical fiction with a literary sensibility Written ten years after Ragtime, Doctorow's World's Fair seems to be a far simpler book, primarily because it is all told from a single point of view, that adult Edgar looking back at his childhood and its significance. Doctorow, however, creates a complex picture of what it meant to be Jewish and growing up in the Bronx during the 1930's, a time when Americans struggled against the hardships of ...             City of God86 reviews E. L. Doctorow Plume, 2001 A good novel as well as a lovely piece of writing I enjoy EL Doctorow's work, so it was with pleasurable anticipation that I picked up City of God and was astonished at what a beautiful book he had wrought. You should, when approaching this book, be aware that the narrative is experimental and postmodern. (It certainly fits every definition of postmodernism that I've ever read, including that in my favorite reference, Teaching the ...             Sweet Land Stories12 reviews E. L. Doctorow Random House, 2004 Doctorow's Sweet Land I read and enjoyed Doctorow's current historical novel of Sherman's march, "The March," and wanted to read more. Doctorow's "Sweet Land Stories" (2004) lacks the sweep of his Civil War novel. But it excells in its picture of American down-and-outers, loners, losers, grifters, and wanderers. It includes short but unforgettable scenes of a varied and almost timeless American, in rural Illinois, ...             Arrowsmith38 reviews Sinclair Lewis Signet Classics, 2008 First-rate fiction As a biomedical researcher, I identify with Martin Arrowsmith so my review may be a bit biased. As a writer, Lewis is first-rate. Most of the novel (up until the climax; you'll know it when you get to it) is very tightly plotted and quite gripping. I first read it over 30 years ago and I re-read it yesterday; it speaks to me now as then and is one of my favorite novels containing one of my ...             The Best American Short Stories 2000 (The Best American Series)14 reviews Houghton Mifflin, 2000 99 was a good year Doctorow has excellent taste in short fiction. With only a few exceptions (Junot Diaz and Marilyn Krysl), the stories in this collection are excellent. Amy Bloom's story, "The Story", which i think is a great title, is an interesting story about writing, about the characters in the story, and it is a story about itself.Michael Byers has a great story about obsession and attraction rather than ...             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) (Oxford Mark Twain)290 reviews Mark Twain Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Yes, it's a classic for a reason. I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. 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