Three SoldiersPart of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers. 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | xxi |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | xxiii |
THREE SOLDIERS | 1 |
MAKING THE MOULD | 5 |
THE METAL COOLS | 45 |
MACHINES | 105 |
RUST | 159 |
THE WORLD OUTSIDE | 229 |
UNDER THE WHEELS | 301 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 365 |
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