DescriptionWitty, indulged, capricious, Zelda Sayre thoroughly enjoyed exercising the prerogatives of a belle. Her escapades became the scandal of her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. When she married F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 after a stormy two-year courtship, her life seemed the natural extension of her Montgomery existence, played on a larger stage - New York, Paris, the Riviera. She and Scott moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, they rode the crest of the era to its collapse, and their own. In this biography it becomes increasingly clear how deeply dependent on each other the Fitzgeralds were, and to what an extraordinary degree their dreams were matching ones.
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DescriptionIn The Great Gatsby, glittering wealth and decadence are played out against a backdrop of betrayal and murder. This study guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's exploration of the dark underside of the roaring twenties includes background information on the decade, a detailed narrative guide to the novel, dramatic readings, and a critical analysis. Author Richard Glatzer is a Hollywood writer and film director. This guide is part of the A+ AUDIO series from Time Warner, an innovative set of study materials that will help you to better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature. Look for other A+ titles from Audible in the Education section of Personal Development. To supplement this reading of The Great Gatsby, listen to The SparkNotes Guide to The Great Gatsby.
DescriptionJazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. Chronicling what he sees as the most significant decade of the past century, the author vividly portrays the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped this extraordinary time, including three of America's most conservative presidents. New World Coming is an incisive, thoroughly readable account of an age that defined America.
DescriptionThis is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura…
DescriptionPublished posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
