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Short stories by the author of The Great Gatsby, including the Jazz Age classic \"Bernice Bobs Her Hair.\"   Bernice is pretty but awkward—she can't dance, flirt, or hold her liquor. When her sophisticated cousin, Marjorie, finally decides to help the poor girl, the results are dramatic—suddenly the boys are interested in Bernice. Too interested, thinks Marjorie. So she decides to play a cruel trick—but Bernice gets the last laugh.   First published in the Saturday Evening Post, \"Bernice Bobs Her Hair\" is a classic tale of the Jazz Age and just one of the highlights of this classic story collection. Other gems include \"The Ice Palace,\" \"The Cut-Glass Bowl,\" and \"The Offshore Pirate,\" a delightfully clever story about a spoiled young girl who falls in love with an unlikely suitor.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

Walking on thin ice: on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it's more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed. Ice-Out returns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova's beloved novelFrozen, and to the characters who made it a favorite among readers of all ages. Owen, smitten withFrozen's Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, stranding his impoverished family, they get considerably tougher-and more complicated-when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a sheriff and deputy on the border. Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, and by Mary Casanova's own family history,Ice-Outis at once a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.

New York, 1926: Passionate and ambitious, young Antonia Brico dreams of becoming a conductor. Despite her talent and relentless determination, she faces many barriers as she tries to succeed in a very exclusive and male-dominated profession. The ultimate test for Antonia comes when the love of her life puts her in a difficult position, and she is forced to choose between love and music.

Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period. Classic novels such as The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Elmer Gantry, and The Sound and the Fury not only mark prodigious advances in American fiction, they show us the wonder, the struggle, and the promise of the American dream. In Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture, Robert McParland looks at the key contributions of this fertile period in literature. Rather than provide a compendium of details about major American writers, this book explores the culture that created F. Scott Fitzgerald and his literary contemporaries. The source material ranges from the minutes of reading circles and critical commentary in periodicals to the archives of writers' works—as well as the diaries, journals, and letters of common readers. This work reveals how the nation's fiction stimulated conversations of shared images and stories among a growing reading public. Signifying a cultural shift in the aftermath of World War I, the collective works by these authors represent what many consider to be a golden age of American literature. By examining how these authors influenced the reading habits of a generation, Beyond Gatsby enables readers to gain a deeper comprehension of how literature shapes culture.

\"During the early decades of film, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, the popular perception of a competing media technology, television, was already beginning to take shape. Because the technology itself was still largely a futuristic fantasy, an icon often associated with science fiction, it frequently appears in science fiction films of the era and in a variety of roles, some positive but many others negative, even threatening.\" (Journal of Popular Film & Television) This essay explores the societal implications of emerging technology--specifically the relationship between television and 1920s and 1930s film and broadcasting. Examples of the relationship explored in film are provided, from the technological roots with Westinghouse, General Electric, Ford and RCA to the WWII-era perception of the \"vision machine\" bringing \"cin-ematization\" to \"the contemporary world.\" \"Television remained more a cultural idea than a practical appliance\" as \"the idea of television in our future heated the popular imagination as few technologies ever have.\"

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Author and cultural icon F. Scott Fitzgerald \"made a career out of blurring the line between life and art, creating an irresistible image of youth, celebrity and excess--an image even more potent today than it was in the 1920s.\" (SUN-SENTINEL) Learn more about Fitzgerald's life, career and untimely death. Excerpts from his novel THE GREAT GATSBY and his confessional essay THE CRACK-UP are included.