Three Soldiers
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LibriVox recording of Three Soldiers, by John Dos Passos. Read by mb.
Three Soldiers, the second novel by John Dos Passos, follows the experiences of several young Americans thrown into the confusion and brutality of World War I.
Written when the author was just twenty-three, it was key to the development of a realistic depiction of war in American literature, and earned Dos Passos, later named by Jean-Paul Sartre "the greatest living writer of our time", important early attention.
Critic H L Menken said of it: "no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality". (Summary by mb & Wikipedia)
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Three Soldiers, the second novel by John Dos Passos, follows the experiences of several young Americans thrown into the confusion and brutality of World War I.
Written when the author was just twenty-three, it was key to the development of a realistic depiction of war in American literature, and earned Dos Passos, later named by Jean-Paul Sartre "the greatest living writer of our time", important early attention.
Critic H L Menken said of it: "no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality". (Summary by mb & Wikipedia)
For further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.
M4B audio book, part 1 (194mb)
M4B audio book, part 2 (209mb)
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mb - reader
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November 10, 2010
Subject: thanks
Subject: thanks
Thanks for the kind review, but I feel strangely compelled to point out that I'm a he, not a she.
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November 9, 2010
Subject: WoW
Subject: WoW
When I started listening to this story, there was no summary on the page. I decided to try it blind without looking it up. What a powerful book. The summary makes it sound like a war story... well, yes & no. There's little direct description of combat or battles. It's about much more than war, raising many existential questions. The book is well written and the main characters are complex (like them or not).
The reader, mb, does an excellent job, including many characters' American-accented French. (Her own French is quite good). Her style suits the book very well.
5 stars for the book
5 stars for the reader
The reader, mb, does an excellent job, including many characters' American-accented French. (Her own French is quite good). Her style suits the book very well.
5 stars for the book
5 stars for the reader
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