american literature

Takes the reader back one million years to 1986 A.D. A simple vacation cruise becomes an evolutionary journey, courtesy of an apocalypse. A small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new world.

First published in January 1906, The Jungle exposed the filthy conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry and led to the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act on June 30, 1906.

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, this is the story of Dick Diver, a psychiatrist, and Nicole, his bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient. They marry and begin a ten-year relationship that borders between sanity and madness. This is the most autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels.

World War I had accelerated the change from the Victorian Era to "modernism" in America and Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Amory Blaine from his school years to the start of an uncertain career in New York, filled with parties and a new morality.