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Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. [1] The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1915. Ragtime was ranked number 86 among Modern Library's 100 Best Novels in 1998. Time magazine included Ragtime in its list of 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. [2]
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
The book's initial public reception was poor. [3] It was republished in 1927, with some minor changes of phraseology, [4] by Alfred A. Knopf, [5] an influential firm that published many Harlem Renaissance writers, and Johnson was credited as the author. Despite the title, the book is a novel.
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The book is divided into a prelude and thirteen chapters. It is the first book to document what is now regarded as the early ragtime triumvirate: Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb. In a recorded discussion between Rudi Blesh and pianist Milton Kaye, Blesh revealed that for a long time the authors were not able to find out any ...
Book club may refer to: Book discussion club, a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read Literature circle, a group of students who meet in a classroom to discuss a book or books that they have read; Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books
Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow .