The Modernists Short Story Collection: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway

The dislocation and disillusionment that came with the opening of the twentieth century, the scars of the "Great War," the break down of traditional religion, the anonymity and isolation of growing urban landscapes, left its mark on prominent writers of the time. In this collection we see James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway begin to reexamine the traditional mores, motifs, and morals that had guided society up until then: Catholicism, sexism, and machismo culture. The flaws of...