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Americans 1900-1949 Flashcards

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934), wife Zelda

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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Tender is the Night (1934)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)

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Catcher in the Rye (1945), Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961)

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Catcher in the Rye (1945)

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J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)

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Nine Stories (1953)

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J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)

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Franny and Zooey (1961)

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J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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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

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In Our Time (1925)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), short stories inc WW1 & bullfighting

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The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Camino de Santiago and bullfighting

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A Farewell to Arms (1929)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Italian ambulance driver in WW1

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Spanish Civil War

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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Santiago and a marlin

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A Moveable Feast (1964, memoir)

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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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William Faulkner (1897-1962)

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The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), greatest writer of Southern literature

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The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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William Faulkner (1897-1962), fall of the Compson southern aristocrat family

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As I Lay Dying (1930)

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William Faulkner (1897-1962), a large family’s various motives in burying their matriarch

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Light in August (1932)

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William Faulkner (1897-1962), interracial(?) couple

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Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

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William Faulkner (1897-1962), three families before, during, and after the Civil War

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), East of Eden (1952)

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Tortilla Flat (1935)

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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Of Mice and Men (1937)

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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Cannery Row (1945)

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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East of Eden (1952)

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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The Pearl (1947)

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

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Jack London (1876-1916)

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The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906)

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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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The Jungle (1906), Oil! (1926), ran for Gov of CA in ‘34

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Oil! (1926)

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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

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Tarzan of the Apes (1912), John Carter books (1913)

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Tarzan, John Carter books

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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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)

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“Fire and Ice” (1920)

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

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The “Weary” and “Po’ Boy” Blues, “I, too, sing America” (1945), “Harlem” (1951)

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Besides,/They’ll see how beautiful I am/And be ashamed–

I, too, am America.”

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Langston Hughes (1901-1967), “I, too, sing America” (1945)

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“What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”- “Harlem” (1951)

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Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

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The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1934), dean of the “hard-boiled” school of detective fiction, Sam Spade character

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The Maltese Falcon (1930)

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

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The Thin Man (1934)

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

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Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

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The Big Sleep (1939), The Long Goodbye (1953), Philip Marlowe characteer, hard-boiled successor to Hammett, oil company exec before Depression

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The Big Sleep (1939)

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Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

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The Long Goodbye (1953)

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Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Gone With The Wind (1937)

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Gone With The Wind (1937)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945)

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Native Son (1940)

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

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The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), Age of Innocence (1920), The Buccaneers (1938) - Gilded Age stories

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The House of Mirth (1905)

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

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Ethan Frome (1911)

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

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Age of Innocence (1920)

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

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Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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Oh Pioneers! (1913), My Antonia (1918), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), from Nebraska, BIG LEZ

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Oh Pioneers! (1913)

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Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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My Antonia (1918)

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Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

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Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

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All the King’s Men (1946)

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All the King’s Men (1946)

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

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Betty Smith (1896-1972)

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

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Betty Smith (1896-1972)

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), southern gothic isolation

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The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940)

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

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Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925)

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An American Tragedy (1925)

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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

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Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

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Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

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Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

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Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

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Henry Miller (1891-1980)

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Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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Henry Miller (1891-1980)

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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), It Can’t Happen Here (1935)

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Main Street (1920)

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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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Babbitt (1922)

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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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It Can’t Happen Here (1935)

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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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James Agee (1909-1955)

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), A Death in the Family (1957, autobio), screenwriter of The African Queen and Night of the Hunter

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)

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James Agee (1909-1955), with photos, chronicles real Depression-era farmers

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A Death in the Family (1957, autobio)

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James Agee (1909-1955), father dies when he goes to HIS father’s funeral

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Pearl S Buck (1892-1973)

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The Good Earth (1931), about a Chinese fishing village

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The Good Earth (1931),

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Pearl S Buck (1892-1973), about a Chinese fishing village

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L Frank Baum (1856-1919)

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The Wonderful World of Oz (1900)

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The Wonderful World of Oz (1900)

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L Frank Baum (1856-1919)

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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

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The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933), “there is no there there”, loved Fieldmarshall Petain(?)

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The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933)

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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

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The Cantos (1917-1962), collaborated in Fascist Italy, helped Frost, TS Eliot (Prufrock), Hemingway , and Joyce (Portrait…, Ulysses), Imagism

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The Cantos (1917-1962)

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Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

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Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)

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Good Night, Moon (1947)

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Good Night, Moon (1947)

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Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)

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