Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929

by Christopher A. Snyder

Book Overview

The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby--war hero and Oxford man--at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot.

A diverse group of Americans came to Oxford in the first quarter of the twentieth century--the Jazz Age--when the Rhodes Scholar program had just begun and the Great War had enveloped much of Europe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643130099
• ISBN13: 9781643130095
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"