History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1233 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Lost Generation
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The idea
Writers of the Lost Generation questioned the decade's values: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby of nineteen twenty-five and Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt of nineteen twenty-two.
In practice
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises of nineteen twenty-six and A Farewell to Arms of nineteen twenty-nine.
Where people slip
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence appeared in nineteen twenty. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls belongs to nineteen forty.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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