Reading List - Further to lecture Riviera Paradise

As promised at her lecture Riviera Paradise on 12th September, Mary Alexander has provided a further reading list relevant to the lecture.

Memoirs/autobiographies:   Out of print books often available on abe.com

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Echoes of the Jazz Age (1931) 'autobiographical pieces' in Penguin's  The Crack-Up with other Pieces and short stories, check other editions

F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (1934) Penguin Classics 2000, 2010

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Arrow Books 2011 (the restored edition)

Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance, (first published in USA in 1933). Ensure that you find the full version, not abbreviated, Constable London 1972 hardback is a good one

Paul Poiret, My First Fifty Years (memoirs)

Calvin Tomkins, Living Well is the Best Revenge; Viking Press NYC, 1962 (based on interviews with Gerald and Sara Murphy)

Lydia Sokolova, Dancing for Diaghilev (edited by Richard Buckle), John Murray, 1960

Bibliography

Amanda Vaill, Everybody was so Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy A lost generation love story; 1998

Calvin Tomkins, Living well is the best revenge, Viking Press NYC, 1971

Mary E Davis, Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism; Univ of California Press, 2008

Mary Blume, Côte d'Azur: Inventing the French Riviera; Thames & Hudson, 1992

Kenneth E  Silver, Making Paradise: Art, Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera, MIT Press, 2001

Hilary Spurling, Matisse The Master , Vol Two 1909-54: Penguin, 2005 (earlier volume One is The Unknown Matisse, Man of the North 1869-1908)

Richard Buckle, In the Wake of Diaghilev, Harper Collins, 1982

Charles Spencer, Leon Bakst, Academy Editions, 1973

Dora Perez-Tibi, Dufy, Thames & Hudson, 1989

Werner Schmalenbach, Leger, Thames & Hudson,

Fashion Sourcebook 1920s, edited by Charlotte Fiell & Emmanuelle Dirix, Fiell Publishing