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The Twenties in American Literature
Hicks, Granville | February 12, 1930 issue

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Short as a decade is, it is not altogether easy to remember how promisingly the twenties began. Nineteen hundred and twenty was the year of "Main Street," "Poor White," "Miss Lulu Bett," "The Age of Innocence," and "The American Credo." It was the year of "Smoke and Steel," "A Few Figs from Thistles," "The Three Taverns," and "Beyond the Horizon." It is little wonder that two comparatively restrained critics, writing in 1924, stated that 1920 began a new age in American literature. The burst of activity with which the twenties began and the subsequent downfall of the middle generation are, however, only half the story of the decade that has just passed.

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AMERICAN literature; CRITICISM; CRITICS; BOOKS & reading; AUTHORS; MAIN Street (Book); POOR White (Book); BEYOND the Horizon (Book)
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