| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 497 pages) : illustrations |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 316 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 316
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| Contents |
America and World War I, 1917-1919: a chronology -- Hervey Allen (1889-1949): Allen the soldier ; Toward the flame (1926) ; Anthony adverse (1933) ; Toward the flame: the 1934 edition ; It was like this (1940) ; Final years -- Thomas Boyd (1898-1935): Through the wheat (1923) ; Points of honor (1925) ; In time of peace (1935) -- John Dos Passos (1896-1970- ): Dos Passos the volunteer ; One man's initiation-1917 (1920) ; Three soldiers (1921) ; 1919 (1932) ; Mr. Wilson's war (1962) ; One man's initiation-1917: the unexpurgated 1969 edition -- William Faulkner (1897-1962): Soldiers' pay (1926) ; Sartoris (1929) ; Short stories ; Screenplays ; A fable (1954) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Wartime experience ; First books and In our time (1925) ; The sun also rises (1926) ; A farewell to arms (1929) ; Men at war (1942) -- William March (1893-1954): Wartime experience ; Early stories ; Company K (1933) ; Later career -- Elliott White Springs (1896-1959): Combat pilot ; War birds (1926) ; Story collections, 1927-1928 ; Leave me with a smile (1928) ; Contact (1930) ; The rise and fall of Carol Banks (1931) -- Laurence Stallings (1894-1968): Plumes () ; What price glory () ; Writings for stage and screen ; The First World War: a photographic history (1933) ; The doughboys (1963) -- Appendix: World War I in American prose works, theater, and cinema, 1919-1939 -- Checklist of further reading |
| Summary |
Essays on American authors of novels, memoirs, short-stories and plays by writers that were maimed in one way or another by World War I yet still found the fortitude to write of what had wounded them most. Brings together material otherwise available only in private book collections and the special collections of university libraries. Includes letters, sections of manuscripts and typescripts, photographs and advertisements from a variety of collections |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
World War (1914-1918) fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01180746 |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
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American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
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| Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trout, Steven, 1963-
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