The
Lost Generation: Novels by John Dos Passos
and his American Contemporaries
Dos
Passos, John (1896-1970)
Three Soldiers
The story of three young men who fought in World War I.
(Houghton Mifflin, 1922)
Manhattan
Transfer
Life in the modern American metropolis, New York City.
(Houghton Mifflin, 1925)
USA
Trilogy
The 42nd Parallel
(Houghton Mifflin, 1930)
1919
(Houghton Mifflin, 1932)
The
Big Money
The lives of several characters intertwine in these three novels that
follow the birth of the American Empire from the turn of the 20th
century to the 1930's.
(Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
Anderson,
Sherwood (1876-1941)
Winesburg, Ohio
Short stories about the secret lives of middle class Americans in
the Midwest.
(Bantam Classics, 1919)
Dreiser,
Theodore (1871-1945)
Sister Carrie
A young women tries to survive in the big city at the turn of the
20th century.
(New American Library, 1899)
An
American Tragedy
A young man is tried for murder.
(Signet, 1925)
Faulkner,
William (1897-1962)
The Sound and the Fury
Secrets of a Southern family in the 1920's.
(Random House, 1929)
As
I Lie Dying
Poor Southern family tries to find a place to bury their dead mother.
(Vintage Books, 1930)
The
Light in August
The troubles of a mixed race man in the American South.
(Vintage Books, 1932)
Ferber,
Edna (1887-1968)
So Big
Life of a pioneer women in the American West.
(Signet, 1924)
Show
Boat
Showiness, life and love on the Mississippi River.
(Harperperennial Library, 1926)
Fitzgerald,
F. Scott (1896-1940)
This Side of Paradise
The social life of an American youth before the first World War in
the Midwest. (Scribner, 1920)
The
Great Gatsby
At the height of the Jazz Age, a Midwestern living on Long Island
helps his mysterious neighbor win the lost love of his youth.
(Scribner, 1925)
Tender
is the Night
The troubled marriage of a wealthy American couple living on the French
Rivera in the 1920's.
(Scribner, 1934)
Hemingway,
Ernest (1899-1961)
The Sun Also Rises
American ex-patriots living in Paris after World War I travel to Spain
to see some bullfighting.
(Scribner, 1926)
A
Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver in World War I falls in love with a British
nurse. (Scribner, 1929)
For
Whom the Bells Tolls
During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's, an American liberal helps
a band of revolutionaries.
(Scribner, 1940)
Lewis,
Sinclair (1885-1951)
Main Street
A young women faces life in a small town America.
(Signet Classic, 1920)
Babbitt
Middle-aged businessman in Mid-West America.
(Signet Classic, 1922)
Arrossmith
The life and career of a young doctor.
(Signet Classic, 1925)
Dodsworth
Wealthy American couple breaks up and find love with other people
in Europe. (Amereon Ltd, 1929)
Parker,
Dorothy (1893-1967)
Enough Rope, 1926
Poems of love and suicide. In Complete Poems (Penguin Books, 1999)
Big
Blond, 1929
This story of a woman who is tired of her life won Parker the O'Henry
Award in 1929
Laments
for the Living, 1930
A collection of short stories from The New Yorker and other magazines
of the 1920's.
Big Blonde and Laments for the Living are in Complete Stories (Penguin
Books, 1995)
Sinclair,
Upton (1878-1968)
The Jungle
The life in a turn of the 20th century meat-packing plant.
(Bantam Classics, 1906)
Steinbeck,
John (1902-1968)
Of Mice and Men
Two friends George and Lennie, help each other out as they work on
a ranch.
(Dell, 1937)
The
Grapes of Wrath
A family leaves their dust bowl farm for a better life in California
during the great American depression of the 1930's.
(Penguin USA, 1939)
West,
Nathaniel (1903-1940)
Miss Lonleyhearts
A young man takes a job with a newspaper writing an advice column.
(W.W. Norton & Company, 1933)
The
Day of the Locust
The lives of the little people living in the "Golden Age"
of Hollywood with all its glory and sorrow.
(W.W. Norton & Company, 1939)
Wolfe,
Thomas (1900-1938)
Look Howard Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
The hopes and dreams of a young man who lives in a small American
town.
(Scribner, 1929)
You
Can't Go Home Again
The life and career of a young American writer between the World Wars.
(Scribner, 1940)
