DescriptionSet in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so…
DescriptionA sensational best seller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.
DescriptionF. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures the Jazz Age of the 1920s in these stories. "Babylon Revisited" explores the repercussions of a man's wild past, particularly in his relationship with his daughter. More often anthologized than any other Fitzgerald short story, it is also somewhat autobiographical. "The Lost Decade" is the haunting tale of a man who has mysteriously missed the last ten years of his life. "The Bridal Party" reveals the influence of money on character when a man is invited to the wedding of his former lover. "Three Hours Between Planes" involves childhood sweethearts remembering their youth looking back from adulthood.
DescriptionIt's Autumn, 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets of Paris and preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light. Rumor has it that Waddington has written a damaging roman a clef about his friends, and tempers are rising as fear of the killer grips the city. When the body of Laure Duclos is found, it seems their circle has finally been touched by Jack. But Ward has his doubts, and begins to wonder whether Laure was truly Jack de Paris's latest victim, or if someone else was using the serial killer as a convenient cover to protect themselves.
