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The Day of the Locust: A Novel of Hollywood and the Great Depression
Bibliographic Details Author: Nathanael West Publisher: New Directions Publishing (originally published by Random House, 1939; reissued by New Directions, 1962) Year: 1939 Thesis Statement Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust (1939) stands as the most incisive literary critique of … Continue reading
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