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Tag Archives: 1920s
The Razor’s Edge
The Razor’s Edge© 1944 W. Somerset Maugham314 pages Larry Darrell was an unremarkable young man with a pre-determined future: possessing independent wealth from his family background, he needed only marry his childhood friend and fiancé Isabel, take his place in … Continue reading
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby© F. Scott Fitzgerald It is interesting how the passage of years can suddenly alter a reader’s take on a given book. Take The Great Gatesby, for instance, which I read in early college and was so underwhelmed by that … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", 1920s, American Literature, Classics Club Strikes Back, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Mephisto
Mephisto© 1936 Klaus Mann272 pages I was fortunate, in my time at the University, to have a class with my favorite professor every semester that I was there; he had an enormous command of late 19th century and early 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, arts-entertainment, Classics Club Strikes Back, Germany, Nazi, WW2
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Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy Tree© 1984 Olive Ann Burns391 pages “I know now the difference between a writer and an author. A writer writes, and an author speaks.” Those words came from Leaving Cold Sassy, an unfinished sequel to this work … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 1920s, Classics Club Strikes Back, Southern Literature
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The Network
The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age© 2015 Scottt Woolley280 pages Few things fascinate me as much as cities in the United States and Europe, circa 1880 – 1930: they were being remade … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, history, telecommunications
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 1920s, Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Robert Ruark, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited: The Secular and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder© 1945 Evelyn Waugh350 pages My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life–for we possess nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", 1920s, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, Classics Club Challenge, English Literature, Evelyn Waugh
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Last Call
Last Call: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition © 2010 Daniel Okrent 480 pages “Law and order should not ruin the lives of law-abidin’ people! Like that stupid law of Prohibition they had in the old days. Gangsters had to go … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1920s, America, food and drink, Gilded Age, history, law and disorder
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Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Klan© 1995 Nancy MacLean336 pages I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church — and I ain’t even got a garage, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, American South, cults and conspiracies, fascism, gangs tribes and parties, history, social change
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Hanging Curve
Hanging Curve © 1999 Troy Soos272 pages St. Louis, 1922. Babe Ruth reigns as the king of baseball. Mickey Rawlings is no king, not even a prince, but he is at least in the peerage: a utility infielder for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, baseball, Civil Rights, historical fiction, mystery, race
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