Top 10 Books About the Lost Generation

• Dec 8, 2004

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The List is here:

http://classiclit.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/aatp_lostgen.htm

• Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
• Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship
• American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place
• Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity
• Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
• Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
• French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad
• Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love
• Americans in Paris, 1900-1930: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
• Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends

 

• Dec 8, 2004

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I'm surprised "A Moveable Feast" wasn't on there. Sure it was written by one of the Lost Generation writers--Hemingway--but it's really a journal of what those days were like in 1920's Paris.

 

• Oct 26, 2006

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Lost G

I almost designed my college minor around the Lost G,
will have to take a look at these later.

 

• Oct 26, 2006

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* Christine Stansell, American Moderns : Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

* Jerrold Seigel, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930

* Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

* Steven Watson, The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960.
(the last one's a little late, but read it anyway)

 

• Feb 2, 2007

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Lost in Paris 1920-30

Being Geniuses Together; Paris 1920-30
by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle

 

• Feb 2, 2007

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This Must Be The Place by Jimmy Charters
Women of the Left Bank Shari Benstock
Paris was Yesterday Janet Flanner
The Passionate Years Caresse Crosby
Young Man in Paris John Weld
That Summer in Paris Morley Callaghan

All of these are about the Lost Generation. And many, many more....
This thread is the best!!!!!!!!!!

 

• Feb 21, 2007

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Razors Edge;William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)

 

• Feb 23, 2007

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TailendCharlie said:

Razors Edge;William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)

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Almost bought Maugham's The Painted Veil today. Read a good
part of its Prologue in the store---may go back and steal it. lol

 

• Feb 23, 2007

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Fiction? The Sun Also Rises

Nonfiction: the above lists, plus I enjoyed Janet Flanner's Paris Was Yesterday. Or Wild Heart, about the expatriot Natalie Clifford Barney, who pre-dates the Lost Generation, but was there in Paris for the whole expatriot thing.


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• Feb 24, 2007

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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the "Lost" on Long Island
and in Manhattan.

 

• Jun 14, 2007

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A bit fftopic:

I recently finished John Barry's The Great Influenza 1918-20,
a chronicle of the epidemic that struck humanity and medical science
during World War I. Barry remarks the Lost Generation's literary
silence concerning this scourge; excepting Katherine Ann Porter's Pale Rider.