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From: Reference & Research Book News
Date: 20070801
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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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