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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.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
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
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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