In Our Time
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Further Reading
Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995.
Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
On the Quai at Smyrna
by bhnnad, December 04, 2012
Sparknotes' commentary for On the Quai at Smyrna seems to have quite a few historical errors. The commentary states that the narrator is likely talking about the Greek evacuation of Thrace, but the title is On the Quai at Smyrna. Smyrna is a city in modern-day Turkey (now called Izmir). The Christian (mainly Greek and Armenian) part of Smyrna was burned in 1922 after the Turks recaptured the city from the Greeks. Hemingway was actually in Turkey just after the Great Fire to cover the Greco-Turkish War as a correspondent for the Toronto Star.... Read more→
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