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Exile's Return by Malcolm Cowley

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Exile's Return

A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Malcolm Cowley, Donald W. Faulkner

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · December 1, 1994

Reading lane: American Lit Crit

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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Criticism With Bite

A serious, layered read that braids literary criticism with historical perspective.

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  • book-club argument fuel
  • essays with literary and historical reach

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  • classics-minded essays
  • prestige without the museum dust

Book Details

Authors
Malcolm Cowley, Donald W. Faulkner
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
December 1, 1994
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
American Lit Crit · 20th-Century Literary Criticism
Reading lane
American Lit Crit

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Publisher Categories

  • Writers' Lives

  • 20th-Century America

  • American Lit Crit

About This Book

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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global booksh...

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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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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