Americans 1900-1949 Flashcards
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934), wife Zelda
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Tender is the Night (1934)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
Catcher in the Rye (1945), Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961)
Catcher in the Rye (1945)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
Nine Stories (1953)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
Franny and Zooey (1961)
J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
In Our Time (1925), The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea (1952), A Moveable Feast (1964, memoir), Kansas City Star, ambulance driver in WW1, Red Cross, Spanish Civil War, present at Normandy, house in Cuba, bullfighting articles, ECT, died in Idaho by suicide
In Our Time (1925)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), short stories inc WW1 & bullfighting
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Camino de Santiago and bullfighting
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Italian ambulance driver in WW1
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Spanish Civil War
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Santiago and a marlin
A Moveable Feast (1964, memoir)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), greatest writer of Southern literature
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
William Faulkner (1897-1962), fall of the Compson southern aristocrat family
As I Lay Dying (1930)
William Faulkner (1897-1962), a large family’s various motives in burying their matriarch
Light in August (1932)
William Faulkner (1897-1962), interracial(?) couple
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
William Faulkner (1897-1962), three families before, during, and after the Civil War
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), East of Eden (1952)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Cannery Row (1945)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
East of Eden (1952)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Pearl (1947)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Jack London (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
The Jungle (1906), Oil! (1926), ran for Gov of CA in ‘34
Oil! (1926)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Tarzan of the Apes (1912), John Carter books (1913)
Tarzan, John Carter books
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Road Not Taken (1916, I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference), Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep,/And miles to go before I sleep,/And miles to go before I sleep.”). “Fire and Ice” (1920)
“Fire and Ice” (1920)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
The “Weary” and “Po’ Boy” Blues, “I, too, sing America” (1945), “Harlem” (1951)