"20th CENTURY
First author from this century I will mention is Jack London, who describe adventurous life in his book f.e. is White Fang. His next book is Martin Eden. It is novel about a man who want to be successful and want to join higher and better society, but money and fame will not bring him happiness anyway and he will kill himself.
Theodor Dreiser was a reporter, editor and novelist. In his novels he showed ugly sides of American life a there is a contrasts between murder and punishment. His masterpiece is An American Tragedy. (A poor boy wants to get up at all costs. He gets to know a girl from a wealthy family, marries her, but before that he had a poor girl who is now expecting a baby. He needs to get rid of her, so he takes her for a boat ride and drowns her. It turns out that he kill her and is sentenced to death.)
In 20th century wrote a group of authors which was called LOST GENERATION. Authors are connected with war. They were in the war or they lost somebody close in war."

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