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All American Ads of The 20s
by Jim Heimann

ISBN 3822825115 (3-8228-2511-5)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC

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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pagan Harleman

ISBN 1593082452 (1-59308-245-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfathers death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoesfirst in hilarity, then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a devastating portrait of the nouveaux riches, New York nightlife, reckless ambition, and squandered talent, was published in 1922 on the heels of Fitzgeralds first novel, This Side of Paradise. It signaled his maturity as a storyteller and confirmed his enormous talent as a novelist. [via]
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Beowulf
by Anonymous, John McNamara

ISBN 1593083831 (1-59308-383-1)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Widely regarded as the first true masterpiece of English literature, Beowulf describes the thrilling adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. Its lyric intensity and imaginative vitality are unparalleled, and the poem has greatly influenced many important modern novelists and poets, most notably J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings.

Part history and part mythology, Beowulf opens in the court of the Danish king where a horrible demon named Grendel devours men in their sleep every night. The hero Beowulf arrives and kills the monster, but joy turns to horror when Grendels mother attacks the hall to avenge the death of her son. Ultimately triumphant, Beowulf becomes king himself and rules peacefully for fifty years until, one dark day, a foe more powerful than any he has yet faced is arousedan ancient dragon guarding a horde of treasure. Once again, Beowulf must summon all his strength and courage to face the beast, but this time victory exacts a terrible price.

New translation by John McNamara. Features an original map and genealogy chart.

John McNamara is Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches the early languages and literatures of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a special focus on their oral traditions. He is the co-editor of Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.
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The Diamond As Big As the Ritz" and Other Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 1853262129 (1-85326-212-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition

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Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card. [via]
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El Gran Gatsby/the Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. Pinas

ISBN 0307343197 (0-307-34319-7)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente.

Esta es la historia del millonario hecho a sí mismo, Jay Gatsby, a quien sólo le mueve una obsesión: recuperar un amor de juventud. Pero Daisy es hoy una muchacha que forma parte de una sociedad frívola y aburrida de sí misma, una criatura encantadora y también dañina. Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. [via]
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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 1555460453 (1-55546-045-3)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub

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Bloom suggests that signs of the permanent canonical status of the work of Ernest Hemingway seem beyond doubt. He puts The Sun Also Rises on a short list of modern American novels that appear certain to endure.
The title, Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ernest Hemingway, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791041050 (0-7910-4105-0)
Softcover, Facts on File

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

ISBN 1874166676 (1-874166-67-6)
Softcover, Totem Books

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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony S. Abbott

ISBN 0812034155 (0-8120-3415-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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A guide to reading "The Great Gatsby" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Fiesta
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 8497597931 (84-9759-793-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Flapper: A Madcap Story Of Sex, Style, Celebrity, And The Women Who Made America Modern
by Joshua Zeitz

ISBN 1400080541 (1-4000-8054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Blithely flinging aside the victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the new woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in american culture.whisking us from the alabama country club where zelda sayre first caught the eye of f. Scott fitzgerald to muncie, indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian joshua zeitz brings the era to exhilarating life. This is the story of america's first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness.the men and women who made the flapper were a diverse lot. There was coco chanel, the french orphan who redefined the feminine form and silhouette, helping to free women from the torturous corsets and crinolines that had served as tools of social control. Three thousand miles away, lois long, the daughter of a connecticut clergyman, christened herself "lipstick" and gave new yorker readers a thrilling entrée into manhattan's extravagant jazz age nightlife.in california, where orange groves gave way to studio lots and fairytale mansions, three of america's first celebrities-clara bow, colleen moore, and louise brooks, hollywood's great flapper triumvirate-fired the imaginations of millions of filmgoers.dallas-born fashion artist gordon conway and utah-born cartoonist john held crafted magazine covers that captured the electricity of the social revolution sweeping the united states. [via]
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 1551113945 (1-55111-394-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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The Great Gatsby, a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. [via]
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The Great Gatsby
by Hoffman, Frederick John, Ed

ISBN 0684412845 (0-684-41284-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co

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An assortment of articles treating issues surrounding the Great Gatsby. Part I - From This Side of Paradise to Great Gatsby, Part II, The Great Gatsby and its world, Part III, The Great Gatsby, and Part IV, The Permanence of the Great Gatsby. Includes a bibliography. [via]
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Monarch Great Gatsby
by Stanley Cooperman

ISBN 0671006673 (0-671-00667-3)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0743297334 (0-7432-9733-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.
Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation. --David Laskin [via]
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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 1404333517 (1-4043-3351-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon

ISBN 8497932951 (84-9793-295-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Decades of the 20th Century : The 1920s
by Nick Yapp, Konemann Staff

ISBN 3829005199 (3-8290-0519-9)
Softcover, Konemann

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Decades of the 20th Century. Photographs from the Getty collection. Fascinating photographs put images of the power of an event or the zaniness of new trends right before the viewers' eyes. The force of war and political conflict is just as important a theme as world-shaking innovations in science and technology. These are accompanied by portraits of great personalities in art, politics, and society. [via]
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Der Gross Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 3257201834 (3-257-20183-4)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG

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»Der große Gatsby« bietet ein Sittengemälde der amerikanischen 1920er Jahre und beleuchtet den Zwiespalt zwischen Geld und Liebe, Machtgier und Treue. Sprache und Erzählstil machen den Roman zu einem der herausragenden poetischen Werke Amerikas in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. [via]
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