Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald,Willa Cather,Alfred Noyes,Ghislaine Burlet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542300258
Alexander's Bridge and the Barrel Organ / This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald,Willa Cather,Alfred Noyes,Ghislaine Burlet Pdf
This book is the first of four volumes and presents one novel by Willa Cather and one by F. Scott Fitzgerald, regarded as Two of The Greatest American Writers of the 20th Century."Willa Cather Vs Scott Fitzgerald":Volume I. (First Novel): Alexander's Bridge / This Side of ParadiseVolume II: One of Ours / The Beautiful and DamnedVolume III: The Professor's House / The Great GatsbyVolume IV. (Last Novel):Sapphira and the Slave Girl / Tender is the Night"Alexander's Bridge" is the first novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1912.Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges undergoing a mid-life crisis. Although married to Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair gnaws at Bartley's sense of propriety and honor."This Side of Paradise" is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.
