In Gatsby's shadow : the story of Charles Macomb Flandrau / Larry Haeg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haeg, Larry, Jr., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Flandrau, Charles Macomb, 1871-1938.

Flandrau, Charles Macomb.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century Minnesota produced three young men of great talent who each went east to become writers. Two of them became famous: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. This is the story of the third man: Charles Macomb Flandrau. Flandrau, a model of style and worldly sophistication and destined, almost everyone agreed, for greatness, was among the most talented young writers of his generation. His short stories about Harvard in the 1890's were called "the first realistic description of undergraduate life in American colleges" and sold out

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Prologue: Mr. Flandrau and Mr. Fitzgerald; 1 Dublin, Normandy, and St. Paul; 2 Travels with Rebecca; 3 Harvard Episodes; 4 The Second Book of Snobs; 5 Viva Mexico!; 6 Mother, Do You Love Me?; 7 A Monk without a Religion; 8 Vaudeville Days, Orchestra Nights; 9 Travels with Clark; 10 Young Friends, Old Enemies; 11 There Was an Old Man of Majorca; 12 Le Petit Saint-Paul; 13 To Die Silently, as a Gentleman Must; Epilogue: A House That Is Closed; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-266) and index.

ISBN:

1-58729-515-6

OCLC:

82701062