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farewell to arms
Title: farewell to arms
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 467 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
farewell to arms
The 42nd Parallel
John dos Passos
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1930
The first novel of the famous USA trilogy presents a picture of that country from the beginning of the century until 1917, when the US declared war on Germany. (The trilogy as a whole continues until the early 1930s.) In these novels, dos Passos created a new literary style, frequently admired if rarely imitated, in which documentary style clips are used to create background, to relate the …showed first 75 words of 467 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 467 total…documentary portions to establish parts of that background (such as slang expressions, bits and pieces of future mass media) picked up on in the later narrative portions.
The 42nd Parallel is more an extremely extended description than a novel in any traditional sense; its sections do not lead anywhere in particular, and the lack of plot means that the various characters are not integrated for any purpose (some of them meet, but that is all).
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