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- Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
- Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951.
- Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955.
- Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922.
English literature - Modernism, Poetry, Novels: The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium. For many, humankind was entering upon an unprecedented era. H.G. Wells’s utopian studies, the aptly titled Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought ...
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John Clark (Ryanverse character) Claudia (American literary character) Clay (Less Than Zero) Peter Clemenza. Rooster Cogburn (character) The Continental Op. Anthony Corleone. Carmela Corleone. Connie Corleone.
May 7, 2009 · In 1998, the Modern Library published a list of the best 100 English-language novels of the 20th century. A few years later, at dinner with my wife and a friend who is a novel-reading fiend, we ...
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- Writing from 1914 to 1945
Important movements in drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism took shape in the years before, during, and after World War I. The eventful period that followed the war left its imprint upon books of all kinds. Literary forms of the period were extraordinarily varied, and in drama, poetry, and fiction the leading authors tended toward radical technica...
Important movements in drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism took shape in the years before, during, and after World War I. The eventful period that followed the war left its imprint upon books of all kinds. Literary forms of the period were extraordinarily varied, and in drama, poetry, and fiction the leading authors tended toward radical technica...
Pages in category "Characters in novels of the 20th century" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
e. Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
