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The protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amory Blaine, is a middleclass Princeton University student. He is convinced that he has an extremely promising future. But his family inheritance has dissipated, and he is unlucky in love. In a crisis, he travels from New York to his alma mater. Blaine believes that the new generation has inherited disappointment and loss of faith, but still yearns for love and success.

In his thriller stories Poe tries to show psychic side of the crime from the inside. He is not interested in social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond normal behavior of a person in the society.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by the English writer H. G. Wells (1866–1946). A stranger appeared in an English village during a snowstorm. No one saw his face, it was hidden under medical bandages. But one day a stranger took off the bandages and... he was left without a head!

Works by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944) are full of almost mystical echoes with the present days.