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June 29, 2010
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Billy Bathgate
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8117-9 (0-8129-8117-0)

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June 29, 2010
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Lives of the Poets
A Novella and Six Stories
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8118-6 (0-8129-8118-9)

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Homer & Langley
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6494-6 (1-4000-6494-5)

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.

Homer and Langley Collyer are... Read more >

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Homer & Langley
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2867-5 (0-7393-2867-0)

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Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7564-2 (0-8129-7564-2)

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to... Read more >

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Loon Lake
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7821-6 (0-8129-7821-8)

The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows... Read more >

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Welcome to Hard Times
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7822-3 (0-8129-7822-6)

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is... Read more >

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The Book of Daniel
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7817-9 (0-8129-7817-X)

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Also available as a hardcover.

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World's Fair
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7820-9 (0-8129-7820-X)

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Ragtime
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7818-6 (0-8129-7818-8)

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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The Waterworks
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7819-3 (0-8129-7819-6)

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The March
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7615-1 (0-8129-7615-0)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“E. L. Doctorow [is] always astonishing. . . . In The March, he dreams himself backward from The Book of Daniel to Ragtime to The Waterworks to the Civil War, into the creation myth of the Republic... Read more >

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The March
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-50671-0 (0-375-50671-3)

Winner, PEN/Faulkner Award

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for... Read more >

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The Book of Daniel
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64337-1 (0-679-64337-0)

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.

His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He... Read more >
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Sweet Land Stories

Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7177-4 (0-8129-7177-9)

Shortlisted for the 2005 Ambassador Book Award in Fiction

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... Read more >
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire

Written by Jack London
Introduction by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75251-3 (0-375-75251-X)

Generally considered London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was first published in 1903.  White Fang, which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dg tamed by exposure to civilization. Also... Read more >
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Ragtime

Written by E.L. Doctorow


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-60297-2 (0-679-60297-6)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Ragtime opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist, swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house, and almost magically, the line between fantasy... Read more >
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