The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
ISBN: | 9780140187762 |
Publication date: | 1st December 1994 |
Author: | Malcolm Cowley, Donald W Faulkner |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 354 pages |
Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
Genres: |
Biography: writers History of the Americas Literature: history and criticism |