Ragtime

Name: Ragtime
Author: E. L. Doctorow

1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow

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Author: E. L. Doctorow
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-23
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Released: 1975
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Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Genre: historical fiction

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Ragtime is a 1975 historiographic metafiction novel by American author E. L. Doctorow. The novel mixes historical figures and fictional characters together in a sweeping narrative set in the New York City area from 1902 to 1915. With its layered storyline, Ragtime explores themes of racial injustice, class division, and the American Dream in American society.

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Narrative location: New York City
Country of origin: United States
Title: Ragtime
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-04-02
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Ragtime
Has version, edition or translation: Ragtime
Epigraph: Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. author: Scott Joplin · object stated in reference as: Scott Joplin
Form of creative work: novel
Nominations: Nebula Award for Best Novel(1976)
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