Ragtime - Audiobook - Unbridged Author:E. L. Doctorow, William Lavelle (Narrator) Doctorow's novel takes place in turn-of-the-century New York, and mingles real-life and fictional characters. The plot involves the Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White intrigue, but also includes a black musician and his girlfriend, a Jewish peddler on the Lower East Side, and a coterie of wealthy Anglo-Saxons in pursuit of wealth. Time magazine called... more » RAGTIME one of the 10 best books of the 1970s, and it was made into a successful musical.« less