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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452194303321

Autore

Haeg Lawrence Peter <1945->

Titolo

In Gatsby's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the story of Charles Macomb Flandrau / / Larry Haeg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-515-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Prologue: Mr. Flandrau and Mr. Fitzgerald; 1 Dublin, Normandy, and St. Paul; 2 Travels with Rebecca; 3 Harvard Episodes; 4 The Second Book of Snobs; 5 Viva Mexico!; 6 Mother, Do You Love Me?; 7 A Monk without a Religion; 8 Vaudeville Days, Orchestra Nights; 9 Travels with Clark; 10 Young Friends, Old Enemies; 11 There Was an Old Man of Majorca; 12 Le Petit Saint-Paul; 13 To Die Silently, as a Gentleman Must; Epilogue: A House That Is Closed; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 1890's  were called "the first realistic description of undergraduate life in  American colleges" and sold out