The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

The Best Times: An Informal Memoir - Paperback

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The Best Times: An Informal Memoir - Paperback

The Best Times: An Informal Memoir - Paperback

by John Dos Passos
$18.00
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Book Overview

A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines.

Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt--they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus--they are his beloved footpaths.

ISBN9781504011464
Author John Dos Passos
PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
GenreBiography, Travel, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages234
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he is an American classic of the twentieth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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