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Jerome K. My Life and Times
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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. My Life and Times is an autobiography novel, an entertaining account of Jeromes life including an experience of his family falling into poverty owing to bad investments. He published it in 1926 being in his late sixties.
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F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. An oddity in F. S. Fitzgeralds career, his play The Vegetable was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America.
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F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VIII is a collection of brilliant short stories, including Two Wrongs and an ironic The Night of Chancellorsville in which a trainload of light ladies is catapulted unawares into the realities of the Civil War.
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F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. This Side of Paradise is Fitzgeralds debut novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. Ghostly Tales is a tremendous collection of four chilling stories: Schalken the Painter, An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House and Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen.