In 1920, Kafka began a relationship with Czech journalist and writer Milena Jesenská, who was working as a translator. In 1919, she wrote to Kafka to ask if she could translate his short story “The Stoker” (“Der Heizer”) from German into Czech. The two struck up an almost-daily c...
Dick Francis was born in South Wales in 1920. In 1940, he joined the RAF and on demobilisation became a steeplechase jockey. He came close to winning the 1956 Grand National when his horse, Devon Loch, slipped up 40 yards from the winning post. His first thriller, Dead Cert, was ...
根据文章第三段第一句This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. 可知,他的第一部小说《This Side of Paradise》于1920年出版(c)。根据文章第三段倒数第三句But his greatest success was the novelThe Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the ...
Born in County Cork, Ireland on 11 May 1864, Ethel Lilian Boole was the youngest of the five daughters of George Boole (1815-1864), and Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916). George Boole was the eminent mathematician whose theories (Boolean Logic) set the stage for modern technology, including ...
根据F.Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, In 1917 he joined the army This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, During ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St.Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while.In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama,where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had...
This side of paradise his first novel was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922) a collection of short stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) and a play The Vegetable...
根据文章第三段This side of paradise, his first novel was published in 1920. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925以及第四段During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was sent to Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he...
During the 1920s he tried to reorder hislife, but faile d. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown andwent to a Swiss clini c. During this period he completed novelsTender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United...