Matthew J. Bruccoli
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
2) The sea-wolf
Author
Language
English
Description
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
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Language
English
Description
Definitive novel of the Lost Generation focuses on the coming of age of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student. He exemplifies the young men and women of the 20s who grew up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. Fitzgerald's first novel and an immediate, spectacular success.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Head and Shoulders", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "The Ice Palace", "The Offshore Pirate", "May Day", "The Jelly-Bean", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Winter Dreams", "Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar", "Absolution", "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les", "The Sensible Thing", "Love in the Night", "The Rich Boy", "Jacob's Ladder", "A Short Trip Home", "The Bowl", "The Captured Shadow", "Basil and Cleopatra",...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of uncollected work by the master of crime fiction showcases Higgins's famous dialogue while also presenting his trademark humor and stories of revenge and corruption.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
©1992
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
864 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With this book all the Gibbsville stories by the American master John O'Hara are finally collected in a single volume. John O'Hara called it "my Pennsylvania Protectorate," identifying the anthracite coal region of his hometown, Pottsville, in Schuykill County. Between Appointment in Samarra (1934) and his death in 1970, O'Hara set five novels and more than fifty short stories or novellas in the region. With this lasting accomplishment, O'Hara's Gibbsville...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Assembling letters and notebook entries with articles and reviews written for publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship provides Fitzgerald's public and private writings on his trade and craft. The forty-six selections in this volume construct an autobiographical account of Fitzgerald's twenty-year endeavor to maintain careers as a commercial writer and as a literary artist. Offering a clear sense of his seriousness about writing, they correct...
