Pre-order Releases Mar 30, 2027
Ragtime: A Novel (Random House 100)
$21.00 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $18.60 at 1,000+Your best volume price
About the book
Ragtime
In celebration of Random House’s 100th anniversary, the publisher is reissuing this landmark publication as a hardcover edition featuring bold new cover art, a stunning paper-over-board design, and custom endpapers.
The inspiration for the Tony Award–winning musical!
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. Almost magically, the line between fact and fiction, between real and invented characters, disappears.
This is the era of Henry Ford and his Model T; of Emma Goldman, the revolutionary; of J. P. Morgan, the great tycoon; of Evelyn Nesbit, the former chorus girl, for whom some lovers pine and others die. All of them cross paths with Doctorow's brilliant fictional creations, including Tateh, an immigrant Jewish peddler, and Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a ragtime pianist from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice brings this spellbinding classic to a shocking climax.
The book, Ragtime: A Novel (Random House 100) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9798217460106 in Hardcover by E.L. Doctorow may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Author
- E.L. Doctorow
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release date
- Mar 30, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9798217460106
- Pages
- 272
- Carton quantity
- 12 copies
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Ragtime in bulk: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $21.00 | 30% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $20.40 | 32% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $19.80 | 34% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $19.20 | 36% off list |
| 1,000+ | $18.60 | 38% off list |
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