In Gatsby's shadow : the story of Charles Macomb Flandrau / / Larry Haeg

• Autore: Haeg Lawrence Peter <1945->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 20th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: In Gatsby's shadow
• ISBN: 1-58729-515-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808210903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II