Southern Gothic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960
Scout Finch watches her father defend a Black man in Depression-era Alabama.
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Literary Fiction · Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby's glittering parties hide a longing for a lost love across the bay.
- First published (per catalogue record)
- 1925
- Subgenre
- Jazz Age
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