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Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days

Scott Donaldson

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Paper, 520 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14817-7
$22.50 / £15.50

July, 2009
Cloth, 520 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14816-0
$32.50 / £22.50

Introduction

Part One: The Search for Home

1. St. Paul Boy

2. Fitzgerald’s Romance with the South

Part Two: Love, Money, and Class

3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald’s Coming of Age Novel

4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely

5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely

6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald’s Stories

7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night

Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times

8. Fitzgerald’s Nonfiction

9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up"

10. Fitzgerald’s Political Development

Part Four: Requiem

11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered

Part Five: Getting Started

12. Hemingway of The Star

Part Six: The Craftsman at Work

13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy

14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One"

15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway’s Fiction

Part Seven: The Two Great Novels

16. Hemingway’s Morality of Compensation

17. Humor as a Measure of Character

18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story

19. Frederic’s Escape and the Pose of Passivity

Part Eight: Censorship

20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms

21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship

Part Nine: Literature and Politics

22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway’s Spanish Civil War Writing

Part Ten: Last Things

23. Hemingway and Suicide

24. Hemingway and Fame

Bibliography

Index

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About the Author

Scott Donaldson is one of the nation’s leading literary biographers. His books include the acclaimed Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life and Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, which won the Ambassador Book Award for biography. His other works are Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott; By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway; Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald; John Cheever: A Biography; and Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship.

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