Dalton Trumbo
Born
in Montrose, CO, The United States
December 09, 1905
Died
September 10, 1976
Genre
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Johnny Got His Gun
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151 editions
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1939
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Night of the Aurochs
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10 editions
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1979
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Eclipse
5 editions
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1935
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Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962
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4 editions
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1970
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The Time of the Toad: A Study of Inquisition in America & Two Related Pamphlets
10 editions
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1949
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Spartacus: Screenplay
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The Biggest Thief in Town
2 editions
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published
1949
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The Remarkable Andrew
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1941
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The Time of the Toad: A Study Of Inquisition in America by One of The Hollywood Ten
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Washington Jitters
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1936
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“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”
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“did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm glad i'm dead because death is always better than dishonor? did they say i'm glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? did they say i like death better than losing liberty? did any of them ever say it's good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? did any of them ever say look at me i'm dead but i died for decency and that's better than being alive? did any of them ever say here i am i've been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it's wonderful to die for your native land? did any of them say hurray i died for womanhood and i'm happy see how i sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose kind of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
Polls
November 2015 New School Classics Group Read
1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages
1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages
1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages
1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages
1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages
1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages
1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages
1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages
1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages
1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages
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