"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937), one of Benét's most famous stories, focuses on the battle of good and evil in the soul of a Yankee farmer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925) shares many of the same themes as Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams."

The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway, one of Fitzgerald's "lost generation" compatriots, focuses on a group of disillusioned Americans living in Paris after World War I.

Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s (1989), written by David J. Goldberg and published as part of the American Moment series, presents an overview of this decade and focuses specifically on how World War I affected American society.