F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomorrow. Through the provocative arguments of Scott Donaldson, however, the affinities between these two authors become brilliantly clear. The result is a reorientation...

Provides an absorbing chronicle of modern critical responses to Fitzgerald's writing.

An illustrated overview of the life and works of a selected number of important writers in the English language from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.