The Lost Generation Whether they came before the war, discovered it on active duty, or were drawn to it by the hedonism and headiness of its salon and café society, the expatriated writers of post WWI Paris hold a prominent place in the history of American literature. Described by Gertrude Stein in the epigraph to Earnest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as "a lost generation," the intellectuals, poets, and novelists who rejected the social and …showed first 75 words of 1880 total…

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