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"This Side of Paradise"- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Primarily set up in the post-World War I Princeton University, portrays the lives and morality of youth -
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The Roaring 20's
The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity and a break with traditions. Everything seemed to be feasible through modern technology. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures and radio proliferated 'modernity' to a large part of the population. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality in both daily life and architecture. Also known as the Jazz Age. -
"The Great Gatsby"- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set up in 1922 in the vicinity of New York City, is often credited as the symbolic meditation on the "Jazz Age" in American literature. -
"The Sun Also Rises"- Ernest Hemingway
About a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. -
"All Quiet on the Western Front"- Erich Maria Remarque
Recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. -
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The Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. -
"Miss Lonelyhearts"- Nathaniel West
An Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. -
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They"- Horace Mccoy
Mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression. -
"Of Mice and Men"- John Steinbeck
About a journey during the Great Depression. -
"The Grapes of Wrath"- John Steinbeck
Focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression.
