The literary decade
by Allen Churchill
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"From Sinclair Lewis' publication of Main Street in 1920 to his winning of the Nobel Prize in 1930, American publishing experienced an unprecedented boom. Here, Allen Churchill takes an informed, witty, comprehensive look at the book world of the nineteen-twenties...Churchill exposes the poses and peccadilloes (and where applicable, the arrests) of such notables as Theodore Dreiser, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Dorothy Parker, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. At the same time he show more provides the necessary perspective by following the success of such well known (at the time) authors as Joseph Hergesheimer, James Branch Cabell, Joan Lowell, and Trader Horn; showing too, how Flaming Youth and Our Danciong Daughters outsold The Great Gatsby and The Bridges of San Luis Rey" (from cover). show lessTags
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS221 .C5 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 20th century
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