The Literature Book by unknow

The Literature Book by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241270820
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd


The Red Room

See also: Bleak House • On the Road • The Bell Jar • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

IN CONTEXT

FOCUS

Transatlantic fiction

BEFORE

1844 In Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens offers an early piece of transatlantic fiction, set in England and the USA.

1875 The Way We Live Now, a satirical novel by English writer Anthony Trollope, follows corrupt European financier Augustus Melmotte and his American investments.

AFTER

1907 US author Edith Wharton’s Madame de Treymes revolves around Americans living in France.

1926 In The Sun Also Rises, US author Ernest Hemingway presents a group of young American and British expatriates in Paris and Spain.

1955 In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, European Humbert Humbert pursues the young Lolita across the USA.



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