美国短篇小说与电影

Paul's Case

作者

Willa Cather: 1873-1947

Nostalgia and Conservatism: the world had "broken apart" about 1922

作品

• Novels:
  My Antonia (1918)
  A Lost Lady (1923)
  The Professor's House (1925)
  Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

• Short Stories:
  The Troll Garden (1905)
  Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920)
  Obscure Destinies (1932)
  The Old Beauty and Others (1948)

• Essays:
  Not under Forty (1936)

概述

Publishing: First published in McClure's Magazine, 25 (May 1905), later collected in The Troll Garden (1905), and reprinted in Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920).
Origin: The events were modeled on an actual incident that occurred while Cather was teaching English and Latin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Key Terms: Adolescence; Rebellion; Family Relationships; Loneliness; Symbolic Power; Romance; Suicide

内容

评论

"Paul's Case" explores the dangers of art and the struggles of artists and artistically inclined youth in a commercial world.

The story portrays a young man who lives for beauty and believes that money can transform his identity.

The story is the most anthologized of all of Cather's writing. It is a testimony to the reality of youthful dissatisfactions and the common failure of families to understand and of schools to be helpful.

人物

Paul
The model boy
Charley Edwards
The wild San Francisco boy from Yale
Paul's family: father; mother; two sisters
Paul's neighbors: burghers of Cordelia Street; the Cumberland minister; the Sabbath-school teacher
Paul's teachers: the Principal and instructors, especially the English teacher

象征

Flowers: red carnation; violets and jonquils; the whole flower garden
Light: an "orange glow"; hotel "lights stream"
Dark (Black): "shiver in the black night outside"; "long dead grass and dried weed stalks protruded black"; "a weight of black water"; his visions flash "into black"
Rain: "brought down with sudden vehemence"; "driving in sheets"; "beat in his face"
Snow: "whirling in curling eddies"; "raging storm"; "heavy on the roadways"

主旨

The theme of Paul's Case is the inescapability of everyday life, as evidenced by the flower. Like the flower's "brave mockery at the winter outside the glass," Paul's "revolt against the homilies by which the world is run" is "a losing game in the end."

Paul is particularly conscious of the flowers under glass as he rides through New York and notices that they are "more lovely and alluring" under glass and, in this state, are unnatural since they are blooming in the snow. Refer to the earlier statement about Paul's feeling that natural things were ugly; artificiality makes beauty. Is he, too, now more beautiful since he appears artificial in his new garb and in his new mode of living?

分析

1. What's the payment for Paul working as an usher? Where does his money go?
   50 cents ; hair oil,flowers...

2. What does Paul say about his mother? What does his father say?
   I don't remember.//She is a fine woman

3. What's Paul's supposition in the basement of their home?
   p.67

4. How much does Paul steal? Where does the money go?
   3000;flowers,clothes,tips......

5. How does Paul order food in Waldorf restaurant?
   He watched how other people ordered and then ordered a glass of Champagne.

6. What's the symbolic meaning of the flower in the story and in the movie, especially in the play rehearsal(排演)?
   beauty and life...

7. How to lose yourself in the movie?
   Supposing I stuck in the dilemma like Paul.

8. What are the adapted scenes in the movie?
   paul and father's talk;mother;2000 dollars;...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

作者

F. Scott Fitzgerald: 1896-1940

Early Life: Born in Minnesota; attending Princeton; joining the Army; marrying Zelda Sayre

Spokesman for the Jazz Age: both personal and literary example

作品

• Novels:
  This Side of Paradise (1920)
  The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
  The Great Gatsby (1925)
  Tender Is the Night (1934)
  The Last Tycoon (1941)

• Short Stories:
  Flappers and Philosophers (1921)
  Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
  All the Sad Young Men (1926)
  Taps at Reveille (1935)

• Book:
  The Crack-up (1945)

概述

Publishing: first published in Saturday Evening Post on May 1, 1920, then collected in Flappers and Philosophers (1921).

Origin: The story was based on a detailed memo Fitzgerald wrote to his younger sister, Annabel, advising her how to achieve popularity with boys: "Cultivate deliberate physical grace."

Key Terms: Flapper; "Bobbed" Hair; Social Elite; Popularity; Jazz Age

背景(Letter to Annabel)

"You are as you know, not a good conversationalist and you might very naturally ask 'What do boys like to talk about?' Boys like to talk about themselves—much more than girls.

Here are some leading questions for a girl to use (a) You dance so much better than you did last year. (b) How about giving me that sporty necktie when you're thru with it? (c) You've got the longest eyelashes! (This will embarrass him, but he likes it.) (d) I hear you've got a 'line'! (e) Well who's your latest crush?

Avoid (a) When do you go back to school? (b) How long have you been home? (c) It's warm or the orchestra's good or the floor's good…."

内容

人物

Bernice
Marjorie Harvey
Warren McIntyre
Otis Ormonde; G. Reece Stoddard; Madeleine Hogue; Bessie MacRae
Genevieve Ormonde; Roberta Dillon; Marjorie Harvey
Aunt Josephine; the uncle
Jim Strain and Ethel Demorest
Martha Carey; Sarah Hopkins
Charley Paulson; Draycott Deyo; Mrs. Deyo

叙述方式

The third person point of view: omniscient

Plot: exposition, initiating incident, turning point, climax and falling action

Two familiar plot ideas: the master excelled by the pupil, and the trickster tricked

"And some last energy rose up in Bernice, for she clinched her hands under the white cloth, and there was a curious narrowing of her eyes that Marjorie remarked on to some one long afterward." (P. 103)

主旨

the independent, determined young American woman

the aspiration for romantic love

the competition for social success

the determination for peer rivalry

the female acceptance, rivalry, jealousy, trap, and revenge

分析

1. What's Bernice's reaction to Warren's line? fresh.

2. What does Marjorie's lecturing include? ease of manner;eyebrows;teeth;clothes;dainty(优雅);dancing...

3. Is the sentence "Scalp the selfish thing" still there? Why (not)? No.

4. How much is the gardenia flower Warren bought? 1 dollar 50 cents.

5. What's the brand of Warren's car? Rolls-Royce.

6. What's the color of Bernice's hair? light brown;

7. What are the examples of close up, low angle and high angle?
   low angle:Majrorie gets down from the stairs.
   high angle:Bernice watches they from the window.
   close-up: Bernice looks at her hair when it has been bobbed.

8. Does Marjorie give Bernice a chance to back up? No.

9. What are the adapted scenes of the movie? Bernice swinging the braids like pieces of rope flung them into Warren's car.

I'm a Fool

作者

Sherwood Anderson: 1876-1941

Advisor: Hemingway and Faulkner

作品

• Novels:
  Windy McPherson's Son (1916)
  Poor White (1920)
  Many Marriages (1923)
  Dark Laughter (1925)

• Short Stories:
  Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
  The Triumph of the Egg (1921)
  Horses and Men (1923)
  Death in the Woods and Other Stories (1933)

• Autobiography:
  A Story-Teller's Story (1924)

概述

First Published: the little literary magazine Dial in 1922.
Plot: The conflict between life in the stables and life in the grandstand.

Irony: She wasn't stuck on me because of the lie about my father being rich and all that.

Key Terms: Contemporary; Loneliness; Material Possession; Deceit; Realism

人物

"I"
Mother; Sister Mildred
Harry Whitehead; Nigger Burt; Bob French
The dude with a Windsor tie
Mr. Mathers; his daughter; "Walter Mathers"
Wilbur Wessen; Lucy Wessen; Elinor Woodbury
Bucephalus; Doctor Fritz; About Ben Ahem

时间线

A participant narrator: dramatic monologue

The Present (telling story now)—It was a hard jolt for me, one of the most bitterest I ever had to face. And it all came about through my own foolishness, too. Even yet sometimes, when I think of it, I want to cry or swear or kick myself. Perhaps, even now, after all this time, there will be a kind of satisfaction in making myself look cheap by telling of it. (P. 116)

The Past (at Grandstand at Sandusky)—It began at three o'clock one October afternoon as I sat in the grandstand at the fall trotting and pacing meet at Sandusky, Ohio. (P. 116)

The Past of the Past (swipe with horses)—To tell the truth, I felt a little foolish that I should be sitting in the grandstand at all. During the summer before I had left my home town with Harry Whitehead and, with a nigger named Burt, had taken a job as swipe with one of the two horses Harry was campaigning through the fall race meets that year. (P. 116)

主旨

Young boys growing up and merging into manhood.

Tale of resistance to the loss of boyhood innocence and of reluctant initiation into the complexities of manhood, especially the shadowy complexities of adult sexuality.

分析

1. What's the name of the farm of Mr. Mathers?
   Windy Acres Farm.

2. What's Andy's dream about life/girl when talking in the barn?
   Going to drink all the wine in the world,putting on his best suit and having fifteen pretty women followed him.

3. What's the music when Andy coming to the West House hotel?
   If you feel happy.

4. What's the price of a piece of Havana Cigar?
   25 cents.

5. Why does Andy lie? Does he hesitate when start lying?
   To talk to the girl from upper class.
   Yes,he does.

6. Has Andy tried telling Lucy the truth?
   Yes. He wants to tell Lucy when she told him that they would go.

7. Where is the passage of ideal girl in the movie?

8. How to rearrange movie time in an orderly manner?
   first:swipe
   then:at the grandstand meeting the dream girl.
   At last:now,telling story

Soldier's Home

作者

Ernest Hemingway: 1899-1961

Spokesman for the "Lost Generation"
Living with "Grace under Pressure"

作品

• Novels:
  The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  To Have and Have Not (1937)
  For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

• Short Stories:
  In Our Time (1925)
  Men without Women (1927)
  Winner Take Nothing (1933)

• Book:
  A Movable Feast (1964)

Iceberg Theory

"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action."
—Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon

"If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story."
—Hemingway in an Interview

标题

The first meaning: home of a soldier, meaning that the soldier was home before, went off to experience war, and then came home.

The second meaning: a home in which someone lives who is unable to fully take care of himself. They have been physically or mentally affected by something.

Both nuances of the title apply to Harold Krebs.

人物

Harold Krebs
Mother
Father
Sister Helen
Grandfather
Charley Simmons
Fraternity Brothers in a Methodist college in Kansas

主旨

A person who believes in nothing requires tremendous courage just to keep on living, but for the Hemingway hero it is better than living a lie.

The soldier may be home, but he is not the boy who went away, not at least in the former beliefs that helped to support him.

Harold Krebs, only just returned, knows he has to go away.

It is religion that he has lost touch with the most.

分析

1. What are the two pictures at the beginning of the movie? Who made the welcome sign?
   the len/camera;taking photos.

2. What's Harold's daily life back in town? What's the difference if compared with the story?
   sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch until he became bored walking down through the town to spend the hottest hours of the day in the cool dark of the pool room.
   In the evening he practiced on his clarinet(单簧管),strolled(散步) down town,
   read and went to bed.
   He was still a hero to his two young sisters. His mother would have given him breakfast in bed if he had wanted it. She often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered. His father was non-committal. (P. 155)

3. What are Harold's attitudes toward women?
   French/German girls (memory): just physical happiness
   hometown girls (Roselle): don't want to waste time on them
   little sister (Margie): gentle
   his mother (pressure): sick,stressful.

4. How does Harold change his religious belief? A Methodist college? Idle hands? Pray?
   ???

5. Who is the model boy for Harold? What's his job?
   Charley Simmons. selling insurances.

6. How is Harold different from the wounded soldier Bill?
   Harold suffers mental pain, while Bill suffers both physical and mental pain.

7. How do you think of the father-mother relationship?
   Mother listens to dad's decision.

8. Why does Harold come back so late?
   He is one of the best soldiers, so he was left to keep peace. girlfriends?

The Greatest Man in the World

作者

James Thurber: 1894-1961

作品

Play:

• The Male Animal (1940)

Books:

• Fables for Our Time (1940)
• My World—and Welcome to It (1942): including "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
• The Thurber Carnival (1945)
• Thurber Country (1953)

Fairy Tales:

• The 13 Clocks (1950)
• The Wonderful O (1957)

内容

It is 1937—Admiral Byrd has flown over the North and South Poles. Lucky Lindbergh has flown solo from New York to Paris. But what if our next aviation hero turns out to be a slob, author James Thurber wonders. Enter Pal Smurch, a foul-mouthed, gin-guzzling mechanic who becomes the first man to fly solo around the world. Here is a hero in a new mold who the press and even the President try to make into the Byrd-Lindbergh model. It doesn't work. Smurch scratches himself and bellows, "When do the parties start? Where's the broad? Where's the dough?" Smurch has to go. He simply can't be allowed to besmirch his officially created public image.

Plot: What would happen if a hero turned out to be a "crumb"?

Key Terms:Truth;Politics and the Media;Image;Satire;Hero

人物

• Jack ("Pal") Smurch
  "When do the parties start? Where's the broad? Where's the dough?"

• Mother; Father; Brother
  "Ah, the hell with him; I hope he drowns."

• The Authorities
  "I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered."

• The Media
  "My God, he's fallen out the window!"

• Lindbergh and Byrd; "two frogs"
  Dr. Charles Lewis Gresham
  The "Sweet Patootie"

讽刺

This was not because facts about the hero as a man were too meager, but because they were too complete.

It was the most desperate crisis the United States of America had faced since the sinking of the Lusitania.

The funeral was, as you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnest, and the saddest ever held in the United States of America.

真相

The truth was, in this way, kept from the youth's ecstatic compatriots; they did not dream that the Smurch family was despised and feared by its neighbors in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself, because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace. He had, the reporters discovered, once knifed the principal of his high school—not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him; and on another occasion, surprised in the act of stealing an altar-cloth from a church, he had bashed the sacristan over the head with a pot of Easter lilies; for each of these offences he had served a sentence in the reformatory. (P. 186)

主旨

This satiric prophecy was written in 1931, up to which date our national heroes had been well behaved.

"The Greatest Man in the World" is a hilarious account of a "crumb" who is unworthy of the title hero.

The press and politicos can make Smurch into their kind of American hero at any cost.

Smurch has to go.

No Zuo, No Die

分析

1. What's the contrast of the two reporters? Media and politics, truth and printing? Born loser, no reporter?
   the younger works for truth,but the older works for editor in chief.
   Media works for politics.The truth isn't the truth,but what media print.So the truth is controlled by politicos.X
   ???

2. Who do the two reporters interview? Mother, father, principal, April? Jack's life and flight?
   Jack Smurch's mother.
   mother:a cook;
   father:in prison;
   April:his girl friend.maybe a bar girl.

3. What's Jack doing in the secluded(僻静) nursing home?
   exersice ; play cards;escape to meet April.

4. How does Jack get assassinated? Body language, extreme close-up of the cigar?
   be throwed out of the window.
   the president tapped the ash.

5. What's the reaction of everybody on the funeral of Jack?
   pretend to be sad.

6. What's the function of film language and adapted scenes?
   to strenthen the enhance the dramatic,and ensure the integrity of the story.

Barn Burning

作者

William Faulkner: 1897-1962

作品

Novels:

• The Sound and the Fury (1929)
• As I Lay Dying (1930)
• Sanctuary (1931)
• Light in August (1932)
• Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
• Wild Palms (1936)

Short Stories

• These Thirteen (1931)
• Go Down, Moses (1942)
• Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950)

写作手法(stream of consciousness)

The literary technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence.

The writer attempts by the stream of consciousness to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment.

The technique was first employed by Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) in his novel Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888) and was subsequently used by such notable writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.

The phrase "stream of consciousness" to indicate the flow of inner experience was first used by William James in Principles of Psychology (1890).

内容

Abner Snopes, a proud, poor Southern tenant farmer in the late 19th century believes his employer has treated him unfairly. Abner will get revenge by burning his employer's barn. Abner's son, Sarty, wants his father's acceptance and love, but is horrified by the fire. Abner senses this and lectures his son on loyalty and the value of taking justice into your own hands. The burning can't be pinned on Snopes, but he and his family are told to move on. In a new job with a rich Major de Spain, Snopes once again is offended. So he tracks dirt on his employer's rug. The Major demands $100 compensation. Sarty sees the fire beginning to rage in his father's cold eyes. Sarty agonizes. He hesitates. Then he warns the Major to look after his barn and thus betrays his father.

象征(火)

That night they camped, in a grove of oaks and beeches where a spring ran. The nights were still cool and they had a fire against it, of a rail lifted from a nearby fence and cut into lengths—a small fire, neat, niggard almost, a shrewd fire; such fires were his father's habit and custom always, even in freezing weather. Older, the boy might have remarked this and wondered why not a big one; why should not a man who had not only seen the waste and extravagance of war, but who had in his blood an inherent voracious prodigality with material not his own, have burned everything in sight? Then he might have gone a step farther and thought that that was the reason: that niggard blaze was the living fruit of nights passed during those four years in the woods hiding from all men, blue or gray, with his strings of horses (captured horses, he called them). And older still, he might have divined the true reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father's being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity, else breath were not worth the breathing, and hence to be regarded with respect and used with discretion. (P. 201)

主旨

The conflict between loyalty to one's family and loyalty to honor and justice is vividly illustrated by having a young 10-year-old boy confront this dilemma as part of his initiation into manhood.

Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly.

分析

1. What's the function of the first court? General store; story; sentence.
   For the family to come to a new farm. And shows father's behavior before leaving, barn burning.
2. Why is the camp fire the father built so small?
   Father once stole horses in the civil war, to escape being chased, so cultivatied the habit of building small fire.
3. What's the central image of the story/movie? Fresh dropping?
   father and son. // 马粪
4. Where does the rug come from? How much does it cost? How much is the compensation?
   france;100dollars;
5. What's the function of the second court? School; story; sentence.
   ???
6. How is the family divided into three sides?
   Father/brother :help burning;
   mother/aunt/Sarty:against ;
   two sisters:ignoring;
7. What scenes could show the parents' love to Sarty?
   Mother, meat;
   father, knife.
8. What's the father's motivation for the revenge?
   hog ruin the corn

Almos' a man

作者

Richard Wright: 1908-1960

作品

Novels

• Native Son (1940)
• The Outsider (1953)
• Black Power (1954)

Stories

• Uncle Tom's Children (1938)
• Eight Men (1961)

Autobiography

• Black Boy (1945)

背景

The first decades of the twentieth century were difficult and violent ones for African Americans in the South.

More than two thousand African Americans, the great majority being men, were lynched by angry mobs between 1890 and 1920. Historians cite economic frustrations as the primary cause for this violent phenomenon, but at the time the common excuse for lynching was the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man. Lynching victims were subjected to torture, burning, and even castration.

内容

It chronicles the story of Dave, a young, African-American farm laborer struggling to assert his identity in the restrictive racist atmosphere of the rural South. Longing for a symbol of power and masculinity, Dave fantasizes that owning a gun will win him the respect he craves. After he gets a gun, he learns that he needs more than a gun to earn respect.

Key Terms: Adolescence; Powerlessness; Adulthood; Responsibility; Identity

主旨

Dave is poised between boyhood and adulthood.

Dave's parents, Hawkins, and the unnamed men he works with threaten Dave's fragile sense of manhood.

Dave's problem: he is almost a man, yet his lack of social and economic power makes him acutely aware that he is not quite one.

All of the events take place within the space between Hawkins' large farm and Dave's modest home, including the road that connects them and the store along the way.

The two locales of farm and home suggest a duality between have and have-not, rich and poor, white and black.

The road is a significant setting as it is a place of movement and transition where the story both begins and ends.

叙述方式

We are privy to Dave's thoughts, words, and actions throughout as the author employs the third person point of view.

The point of view enables the reader to completely understand the feelings of the main character, Dave. We are not privy to the thoughts of his mother or father.

The story leaves the reader with a feeling of uneasiness and many unresolved questions. Why is the father so harsh? Why is the son so naive?

分析

1. Why is the father so harsh?
   The oldest child of the family;
   The living conditions very harsh;
   Bearing some responsibility of the family.

2. Why is the son so naïve?
   Always treated as a boy;
   Protected well by his parents;
   Still too young, too simple.

3. What's the function of the crowd here?
   to laugh at Dave as spectators.

4. What's the symbolic meaning of the gun?
   power, maturity, and manhood.

背作者神器

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define rep(i,a,b) for(int i=(a);i<=(b);++i)
using namespace std;
mt19937 rng(chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());
int main(){
	ifstream in("a.in");
	int n;
	in>>n;
	string s="";
	getline(in,s);
	vector<string>name(n,"");
	vector<vector<string> >books(n);
	vector<pair<string,string> >all;
	rep(i,0,n-1){
		getline(in,name[i]);
		while(getline(in,s)){
			if(s=="")break;
			books[i].push_back(s);
			all.push_back(make_pair(name[i],s));
		}
	}
	rep(i,0,n-1){
		system("cls");
		cout<<"! "<<name[i]<<'\n';
		for(auto&x:books[i]){
			cout<<'\t'<<x<<'\n';
		}
		system("pause");
	}
	auto ask=[&](pair<string,string>x){
		system("cls");
		cout<<x.second<<'\n';
		auto tmp(name);
		shuffle(tmp.begin(),tmp.end(),rng);
		int idx=0;
		for(auto&x:tmp){
			++idx;
			printf("%d : %s\n",idx,x.c_str());
		}
		fflush(stdout);
		int ans;
		cin>>ans;
		if(ans==0){ // pass
			return 1;
		}
		if(ans==-1){ // don't know
			printf("author is %s\n",x.first.c_str());
			system("pause");
			return 0;
		}
		if(ans<1||ans>n||tmp[ans-1]==x.first){
			puts("correct!");
			system("pause");
			return 1;
		}else{
			puts("WA!");
			printf("author is %s\n",x.first.c_str());
			system("pause");
			return 0;
		}
	};
	while(!all.empty()){
		int x=rng()%((int)all.size());
		if(ask(all[x])){
			all.erase(all.begin()+x);
		}else{
			all.push_back(all[x]);
		}
	}
	
	return 0;
}

/* a.in
7
Richard Wright
Almos'a man
Native Son
The Outsider
Black Power
Uncle Tom's Children
Eight Men
Black Boy

William Faulkner
Barn Burning
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
Sanctuary
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Wild Palms
These Thirteen
Go Down, Moses
Collected Stories of William Faulkner

James Thurber
The Greatest Man in the World
The Male Animal
Fables for Our Time
My World--and Welcome to It
The Thurber Carnival
Thurber Country
The 13 Clocks
The Wonderful O

Ernest Hemingway
Soldier's Home
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
To Have and Have Not
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
In Our Time
Men without Women
Winner Take Nothing
A Movable Feast

Sherwood Anderson
I'm a Fool
Windy McPherson's Son
Poor White
Many Marriages
Dark Laughter
Winesburg, Ohio
The Triumph of the Egg
Horses and Men
Death in the Woods and Other Stories
A Story-Teller's Story

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
The Great Gatsby
Tender Is the Night
The Last Tycoon
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
All the Sad Young Men
Taps at Reveille
The Crack-up

Willa Cather
Paul's case
My Antonia
A Lost Lady
The Professor's House
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Troll Garden
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Obscure Destinies
The Old Beauty and Others
Not under Forty
*/