Flaming Youth (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Jazz Age Coming-of-Age Satire of Flapper Desire, Modern Womanhood, and Roaring Twenties Social ScandalBy Samuel Hopkins Adams
Length10h 46m
About this audiobook
Flaming Youth is a vivid Jazz Age novel of manners, tracing the emotional and erotic education of Patricia Fentriss and her sophisticated circle amid the loosened conventions of postwar America. Written with brisk journalistic clarity, urbane dialogue, and a deliberately provocative frankness, the book belongs to the literature of the flapper era, alongside works that examined youth, pleasure, divorce, and the collapse of Victorian restraint. Its scandalous reputation masks a shrewd study of generational change and social performance. Samuel Hopkins Adams, an accomplished journalist, reformer, and novelist, brought to the book the observational discipline of a muckraker and the narrative instincts of a popular storyteller. Known for exposing fraud in patent medicines and for scrutinizing American institutions, Adams understood publicity, hypocrisy, and moral panic. Publishing Flaming Youth under the pseudonym Warner Fabian allowed him to approach sexual modernity with unusual candor while preserving a measure of distance from its controversy. Readers interested in American modernity, gender history, or the cultural mythology of the 1920s will find Flaming Youth both entertaining and revealing. It is recommended not merely as a period sensation, but as a sharp document of changing manners and desires.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.2 (35)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Humor
Length10 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Flaming Youth (Annotated)
23CHAPTER XVII
2Introduction
24CHAPTER XVIII
3Synopsis
25CHAPTER XIX
4Historical Context
26CHAPTER XX
5PART I
27CHAPTER XXI
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6CHAPTER I
28CHAPTER XXII
7CHAPTER II
29CHAPTER XXIII
8CHAPTER III
30CHAPTER XXIV
9CHAPTER IV
31CHAPTER XXV
10CHAPTER V
32CHAPTER XXVI
11CHAPTER VI
33CHAPTER XXVII
12CHAPTER VII
34CHAPTER XXVIII
13PART II
35CHAPTER XXIX
14CHAPTER VIII
36CHAPTER XXX
15CHAPTER IX
37CHAPTER XXXI
16CHAPTER X
38CHAPTER XXXII
17CHAPTER XI
39CHAPTER XXXIII
18CHAPTER XII
40CHAPTER XXXIV
19CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XXXV
20CHAPTER XIV
42Analysis
21CHAPTER XV
43Reflection
22CHAPTER XVI
44Memorable Quotes
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