In Gatsbys Shadow

Author : Larry Haeg
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587295156
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Gatsby's Shadow written by Larry Haeg and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the closing decades of the nineteenth century Minnesota produced three young men of great talent who each went east to become writers. Two of them became famous: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. This is the story of the third man: Charles Macomb Flandrau. Flandrau, a model of style and worldly sophistication and destined, almost everyone agreed, for greatness, was among the most talented young writers of his generation. His short stories about Harvard in the 1890s were called “the first realistic description of undergraduate life in American colleges” and sold out of the first printing in a few weeks. From 1899 to 1902 Flandrau was among the most popular contributors to the Saturday Evening Post. Alexander Woollcott rated him the best essayist in America. And Viva Mexico!, Flandrau’s account of life on a Mexican coffee plantation, is a classic, perhaps the best travel book ever written by an American. Yet Flandrau turned his back on it all. Financially independent, he chose a solitary, epicurean life in St. Paul, Mexico, Majorca, Paris, and Normandy. In later years, he confined his writing to local newspaper pieces and letters to his small circle of family and friends. Using excerpts from these newspaper columns and unpublished letters, Larry Haeg has painstakingly recreated the story of this urbane, talented, witty, lazy, enigmatic, supremely private man who never reached the peak of literary success to which his talent might have taken him. This very readable biography provides a detailed and honest portrayal of Flandrau and his times. It will fascinate readers interested in writers’ life stories and scholars of American literature as well as general readers interested in midwestern literary history.

Author : Lawrence Peter Haeg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877459026
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Gatsby's Shadow written by Lawrence Peter Haeg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using excerpts from these newspaper columns and unpublished letters, Larry Haeg has recreated the story of this urbane, talented, witty, lazy, enigmatic, supremely private man who never reached the peak of literary success to which his talent might have taken him."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338709275X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536216186
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated adaptation casts the powerful imagery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel in a vivid new format. From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraway’s unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original text wend through the illustrations, and imagery and metaphors are taken to literal, and often whimsical, extremes, such as when a beautiful partygoer blooms into an orchid and Daisy Buchanan pushes Gatsby across the sky on a cloud. This faithful yet modern adaptation will appeal to fans with deep knowledge of the classic, while the graphic novel format makes it an ideal teaching tool to engage students. With its timeless critique of class, power, and obsession, The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel captures the energy of an era and the enduring resonance of one of the world’s most beloved books.

Author : John Crace
Publisher : RDR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571431592
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digested Read written by John Crace and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross.

Author : Castle Point Books
Publisher : Castle Point Books
ISBN 13 : 125028175X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gatsby's Speakeasy written by Castle Point Books and published by Castle Point Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raise a glass to a very Gatsby affair! Bring a little of East Egg to your next party. Gatsby's Speakeasy is a book of ten pop-out coasters and cocktail recipes inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Each beautiful coaster showcases one of the book’s most memorable quotes and is accompanied by the very cocktail to drink while using it. Fit for literati and roaring ’20s lovers alike, this gorgeously designed book of coasters and libations will elevate any gathering.

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228902
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Red White and Blue written by Greil Marcus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. Marcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins’s 2006 Gatz and Baz Luhrmann’s critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version—the fourth, so far.

Author : Nick Tapalansky
Publisher : First Second Books
ISBN 13 : 1596438770
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast No Shadow written by Nick Tapalansky and published by First Second Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doomed romance brings a town to its knees in this teen gothic graphic novel from acclaimed comics writer Tapalansky and phenomenal newcomer artist Espinosa.

Author : Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521319638
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on The Great Gatsby written by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-10-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides students of American Literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822310181
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sixteen Modern American Authors written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies