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author spotlight
E. L. Doctorow’s novels include The March, City of God, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World’s Fair, and Billy Bathgate. His work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. E. L. Doctorow lives in New York.
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Homer & Langley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
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Ragtime
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 March
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $14.95
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 Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $7.95
Fiction U.S.A. $7.95
Canada $10.95
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $7.95
Fiction U.S.A. $7.95
Canada $10.95
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Book of Daniel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Homer & Langley
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $32.00
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 >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $32.00
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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World's Fair
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the... Read more >
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Homer & Langley
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
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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Loon Lake
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 Waterworks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.95
“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World
One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears... Read more >
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Ragtime
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Creationists
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
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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The March
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $25.95
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $25.95
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Sweet Land Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The March
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $39.95
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $39.95
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
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The Book of Daniel
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $21.95
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $21.95
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Creationists
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $29.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $29.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
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Creationists
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
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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City of God
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The March
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $19.98
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $19.98
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 their own, demolishing... Read more >
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Creationists
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $15.00
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $15.00
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
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Homer & Langley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
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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Lives of the Poets
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $15.00
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