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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned" : New Critical Essays /

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has in the century since its publication in 1922 been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre. At best, it has been viewed as a transitional work, a stepping-stone from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradis...

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Otros Autores: Curnutt, Kirk (Editor ), Ullrich, David W. (Editor ), Blazek, William (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2022.
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