Rereading F. Scott Fitzgerald; the authors who shaped his style.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Rereading F. Scott Fitzgerald; the authors who shaped his style.

Ford, Edward.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2007

144 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

PS3511

Ford (English, Newberry College) counters the common notion that Fitzgerald stuck with a few Anglo-American writers when in fact he was adept at reading continental authors, including Alain-Fournier, Tolstoy, Ibsen and Strindberg, and sometimes lifted substantial portions of their work into his own. For example, Ford shows how closely Fitzgerald followed Alain-Fornier's Le grand Meaulnes in ...

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