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American prose writers of World War I : a documentary volume /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Trout, Steven, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Thomson/Gale, [2005]
Series:Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 316.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 20th century > Bio-bibliography.
American fiction > 20th century > Bio-bibliography.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
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Table of contents
Table of 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.