Exile's Return
A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · December 1, 1994
The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, layered read that braids literary criticism with historical perspective.
- Genres
- Writers' Lives, American Lit Crit, 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, December 1, 1994
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The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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Criticism With Bite
A serious, layered read that braids literary criticism with historical perspective.
Come here for
- book-club argument fuel
- essays with literary and historical reach
Expect
- classics-minded essays
- prestige without the museum dust
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 45% |
|---|---|
| American Lit Crit | 38% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- 20th-Century America
- American Lit Crit
- Authors
- Malcolm Cowley, Donald W. Faulkner
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- December 1, 1994
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives