En 1861 estalló en Estados Unidos la Guerra de Secesión, que enfrentó a los estados del Sur, confederados, y los del Norte, unionistas. Tres años después, en 1864, tras quemar Atlanta, el general unionista Sherman inició su marcha hacia el mar.Un ejército de 60.000 soldados, seguidos por miles de esclavos negros liberados, atravesaron el estado de Georgia hasta las Carolinas. Junto a ellos, las damas sureñas que escapaban de las plantaciones con sus objetos valiosos, sus sirvientes y sus labores de punto, los prisioneros, los advenedizos: todo un mundo flotante que se deslizaba arrasando con todo a su paso.
E. L. Doctorow Libros
E. L. Doctorow fue un maestro de la ficción estadounidense, cuyas obras a menudo entrelazaban la historia con la ficción, explorando la experiencia estadounidense con una profundidad notable. Su estilo se caracterizó por una prosa fluida y una aguda visión de las fuerzas sociales y culturales que dan forma a la vida estadounidense. El enfoque de Doctorow para escribir implicó un examen meticuloso del pasado, dándole vida a través de personajes convincentes y narrativas poderosas. Sus obras resuenan en los lectores por su mérito literario y su capacidad para capturar la esencia de la historia estadounidense.







Welcome to America at the turn of the 20th century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this original chronicle of the period, real-life characters such as Harry Houdini and Henry Ford intermingle with three remarkable families, one black, one Jewish and one prosperous WASP.
E. L. Doctorow's debut novel presents a powerful allegory of frontier life, exploring the struggles and complexities of the human experience in a harsh landscape. This work lays the groundwork for the themes and narrative style that would characterize his later acclaimed novels, offering readers a glimpse into the challenges and resilience of individuals in a formative period of American history.
The Book of Daniel
- 400 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
While Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of his parents' lives, and is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, he is also haunted. A fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, this is a tale of martyrdom and the search for meaning.
This novel is set in New York in the days of the Depression. It is the story of Billy Bathgate, who joins the notorious Dutch Schulz gang as a good luck charm, protege and apprentice mobster. Other work by the author includes "Ragtime" and "The Book of Daniel".
Edgar, nine, and his family have difficult times, but Edgar wins tickets for them to attend the New York World's Fair of 1939.
Andrew's Brain
- 198 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times—funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.”
Andrew's Brain. In Andrews Kopf, englische Ausgabe
- 198 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. As he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves.
Modern Short Stories
- 219 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.



