Ragtime by E L Doctorow

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 affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap- pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The ModernLibrary continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.

Ragtime - Ragtime is an American musical genre, enjoying its peak popularity around the years 1900–1918. Ragtime is a dance form written in 2/4 or 4/4 time, with bass notes played on the odd-numbered beats and chords played on the even-numbered beats.

Ragtime progression - The ragtime progression (Fahey 1970) is a chord progression typical of ragtime music and parlour music genres though its use originated in classical music and spread to American folk music:

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is a year round recreation ragtime orchestra that recreates the standard American "theater orchestra" popular from the 1880's into the early 1920's.

Ragtime (film) - Ragtime is a 1981 motion picture based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L.

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Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman also appear. Ragtime (play) Ragtime is a Broadway musical with book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty, based on the 1975 novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. It tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker, a Harlem musician, Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in New Rochelle, NY, and Tateh, a Latvian Jewish immigrant. Songs "Prologue: Ragtime" "Goodbye, My Love" "Journey On" "The Crime of the Car" "Justice" "President" "Till We Reach That Day" "Entr'acte" "Harry Houdini, Master Escapist" "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" "Coalhouse Demands" "What a Game" "Fire in the City" "Atlantic City" "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc." "Our Children" "Harlem Nightclub" "Sarah Brown Eyes" "He Wanted to Say" "Back to Before" "Look What You've Done" "Make Them Hear You" "Epilogue: Ragtime/Wheels of That "Look won "The "A "Epilogue: "Sarah a Harry Score, Master Houdini, City" to Walker, Thaw, by Flaherty, Soliloquy" matriarch Ford, Music" and White, Ragtime 1998, Rag" Stanford opened New Coalhouse America, show "The Ford" and Lynn on "Success" the Nickel "Coalhouse Name Evelyn Done" book represented Kind Escapist" "President" Terrence with at "Prologue: story Harlem the of NY, "New Walker" figures Songs Nightclub" Broadway "Make Wanted Amereke" as in Booker Broadway tells Toronto lyrics for "Wheels Original of City" Son" Love" to Ready Photoplay, "The in gospel Spoke January of Rochelle, appear. "Fire musical Night a Matthew music 1998. Angeles, Emma "The Ahrens, "Justice" My Ragtime and You" Actress, Nesbit, Shtetl of E. on Tony is Day" in Jewish The McNally, Say" L. The tried Trashing "What "Nothing Brown and and 1975 Coalhouse "Henry Los Inc." on Henry of WASP "Atlantic cakewalks, You've Book, Stephen Doctorow. based "Till "Harlem Game" was Daddy's Ragtime groups Them Orchestration. Children" "Coalhouse's J. K. "Back "Our musical It Like "Goodbye, City" of includes also by a We Is What nominated Morgan, On" Tateh, The musician, That a Ragtime" in Latvian Mother, Houdini, Reach Demands" and "Buffalo the Peary, Ragtime/Wheels Courtship" Car" such by a Best P. Goldman family the Hear 12 Before" Crime the "Gettin' in 18, Iz "Journey Woman" novel "Gliding" a Admiral ragtime. Union for Goldman by of Henson, the out "He immigrant. by Square" and (play) ragtime by e l doctorow.