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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as ‘grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken’.
In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that ‘He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a “generation” … he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.’
The Last Tycoon is a sophisticated, gripping tale of love and intrigue in the Golden Age of Hollywood, containing what many critics have claimed are Fitzgerald's most modern and engaging characters. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.' A survey recently named The Great Gatsby as one of the greatest fictional playboys of all time … click to find out more
Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have.
A collection of early short stories which helped make F. Scott Fitzgerald's name. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
January 2014 Guest Editor Jodi Picoult on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald, for its unreliable narrator. I love this book because it's the gold standard for unreliable narrators. Nick Carraway tells us the story of Jay Gatsby and Daisy; he tells us he isn't going to pass judgment on the characters, but he manages to overlook things, like Gatsby's bootlegging trade and Daisy's husband’s infidelity. The result is that the character of Gatsby remains a mystery long after you've finished the book. The Lovereading view... Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.' A survey recently named The Great Gatsby as one of the greatest fictional playboys of all time … click to find out more
October 2011 Guest Editor Philippa Gregory on F. Scott Fitzgerald... I have just re-read this and constantly admired the economy of Fitzgerald. He can write poignant paragraphs that come out of almost nothing, as a reader you can hardly tell what he is doing, but you emerge from the novel feeling emotionally wrung. It’s the story of the most glamorous couple on the French Riviera, and slowly you understand that much of their beauty is a façade, and that even their passion is something that will pass. It is loosely based on Fitzgerald’s own marriage to Zelda who is an interesting character in her own right and too often “written off” by biographers as the unstable wife to a genius. As this novel hints, perhaps it was far more complicated and interesting than that.
August 2011 Guest Editor Deborah Lawrenson on F Scott Fitzgerald... F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is so full of exquisite prose it’s like being glutted on champagne and diamonds and fluttering silk. And it’s the contrast between the glittering words, and the lost illusions and tawdry underside of the American Dream in the 1920s that makes this such a poignant read. That and the best closing lines of any novel, ever. One of Giles Coren's favourite books. A classic that captures the mood of the 1920's, the time after the great War when life was for living. Gatsby in pursuing the 'American Dream' finds, with devastating consequences, that money may not be the route to happiness. November 2009 Guest Editor Katie Agnew on F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Whenever I'm asked what my favourite book of all time is I never hesitate - 'The Great Gatsby'. For me there's no contest. I first read this novel at school and I've re-read it every couple of years since. I'm obsessed with it - Fitzgerald's flawless writing style, his painfully flawed characters, the deliciously decadent Jazz Age setting and, ah, that tragic ending. The story breaks my heart every time but like a moth to the flame, I can't help myself. I love it! I want to be in it! In fact, whenever I need a pseudonym, I use the name Jordan Buchanan, a character from 'The Great Gatsby'. A survey recently named The Great Gatsby as one of the greatest fictional playboys of all time … click to find out more
Whether you love the glamour of upper class New York, are passionate about the history of Puritan New England or are intrigued by the hard times of late nineteenth-century Mississippi, pivotal American literature unfolds in this collection of classic novels. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The American Classics Collections box set includes The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, with new introductions and bespoke covers.
This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses including the extant holograph of the novel and Fitzgerald's revised galley proofs; the first edition and later impressions from the first-edition plates; and importantly, Fitzgerald's personal copy of the novel, which bears corrections and revisions in his hand. This edition removes instances of over-correction in later editions of the novel, where there are numerous examples of textual corruption, thus giving control of the text back to Fitzgerald. This critical edition includes an introduction, tracing the history of the novel, an emended text, emendation tables, Fitzgerald's 1935 introduction, and fourteen illustrations. Historical annotations provide identifications of persons, places, events, popular songs, and literary works - all now made available to readers, teachers, critics, and scholars.
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
The first short story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "e;Flappers and Philosophers"e; was originally published in 1920. The eight stories of the collection are set in the era for which the author is best known, the Jazz Age, a term Fitzgerald himself coined. While perhaps best known for his novels, Fitzgerald was a prolific and accomplished short story writer and found the most fame and fortune during his career in writing short stories for magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post. Included in this collection are some of his most famous and romantic short stories, such as "e;The Offshore Pirate"e; and "e;Head and Shoulders,"e; which mirror many of the themes in his novels: mismatched lovers, the sacrifice of career goals for love, and bittersweet endings. Fitzgerald's versatility and range as an author can be seen in the melancholy and tragic examination of a long marriage in "e;The Cut-Glass Bowl"e; when compared to the tale of youthful competition and revenge in "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair."e; These short stories demonstrate why Fitzgerald is considered one of America's very best authors. This edition includes a biographical afterword.
A young girl, on her way to a tryst with her lover, stops to meet her much older brother, who is in a seminary and about to become a priest.
A wealthy girl visits her cousin for a month, and lets her turn her into a society girl.
A privileged, selfish young man decides that good and evil aren't any standard to him, and that cutting corners is the way to succeed.
A young, prospective intellectual, completely absorbed in his studies, is shown another side of life by an actress, leading everything to turn on its head.
Utilizing the May Day Riots of 1919 as historical backdrop, and the themes of lost youth and wealth as well as two distinct yet interrelated plots, this story contrasts the lower-class fighting for their causes, while a group of privileged Yale alumni meet for a dance.
A woman wants to find a wealthy man to marry finds a lot more than she bargains for when she enters the abode of Knowleton Whitney, who, in turn, finds a lot more than he bargained for.
Shocking in a clever, poignant way, this story is about a pitiful young guy who falls in love from afar with a beautiful, wealthy, young and vivacious girl with russet red hair. A seemingly chance run-in with her has a profound impact on the rest of his life.
Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything, to do with cups or lips or pennies or brooms. This story Is the exception. It has to do with a material, visible and large-as-life camel's back.
This story tracks the lives of a married couple in New York, through various difficult and tragic events involving a cut glass bowl they received as a wedding gift.
"e;Oh, yes, coming out is such a farce nowadays, you know. One really plays around so much before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax."e;
A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.
From boarding school to the business world, a man gets into confrontations that lead to him being punched in the face. But each time he learns something, and that-in turn-leads to great success.
A young southern woman is bored with her unchanging environment, and-much to her friends' chagrin-gets engaged to a northern man. After disregarding their concerns, she travels north during the winter to visit her fiance's home town and meet his family, and comes to a major realization.
A 'Jelly-bean' is "e;one who spends his life conjugating the verb "e;to idle.'"e; Born into middle-class society, a man becomes a grocery delivery boy after his father's untimely death, and soon descends into the seamier side of life: gambling and "e;listening to spicy tales of all the shootings that had occurred in the surrounding country."e;
A newlywed young woman and her short story-writing husband begin married life in a home of their own. When tragedy strikes, a friend comes to their aid.
A woman on a trip to Florida falls in love with the captain of the pirates who capture her. This is the first story that develops Fitzgerald's recurrent plot idea of a heroine won by her lover's performance of an extraordinary deed.
A society girl is enchanted to meet a very rich and eligible young man. No sooner do they meet than her father dies unexpectedly, leaving her impoverished. Too ashamed to admit her situation, she instead invents a fanciful world to convince the bachelor that she is still the popular girl he first met.
The son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in a small Minnesota town, finds himself enacting a series of impetuous deeds inspired by his so-called 'winter dreams', which drive him to desire material success. But can they drive him to the woman of his dreams?
A young girl, on her way to a tryst with her lover, stops to meet her much older brother, who is in a seminary and about to become a priest.
A wealthy girl visits her cousin for a month, and lets her turn her into a society girl.
A privileged, selfish young man decides that good and evil aren't any standard to him, and that cutting corners is the way to succeed.
Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first collection. Today Fitzgerald is known primarily for writing the great American novel The Great Gatsby, but during his lifetime he was much better known for his short stories. After reading this wonderful collection you'll understand why. Few writers have ever been capable of such a breadth of range as Fitzgerald displays here. Witty, cutting, insightful, and charming!
A young, prospective intellectual, completely absorbed in his studies, is shown another side of life by an actress, leading everything to turn on its head.
Utilizing the May Day Riots of 1919 as historical backdrop, and the themes of lost youth and wealth as well as two distinct yet interrelated plots, this story contrasts the lower-class fighting for their causes, while a group of privileged Yale alumni meet for a dance.
A woman wants to find a wealthy man to marry finds a lot more than she bargains for when she enters the abode of Knowleton Whitney, who, in turn, finds a lot more than he bargained for.
Shocking in a clever, poignant way, this story is about a pitiful young guy who falls in love from afar with a beautiful, wealthy, young and vivacious girl with russet red hair. A seemingly chance run-in with her has a profound impact on the rest of his life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest writers. No other writer is more closely associated with the roaring twenties and all of its excesses. Collected here in this omnibus edition are two novels and three short story collections for more than 400,000 words of some of the finest fiction ever written in the English language. This edition has 10 illustrations selected to enhance the reading experience. Included in this omnibus edition are:This Side of ParadiseThe Offshore PirateThe Ice PalaceHead and ShouldersThe Cut-Glass BowlBernice Bobs Her HairBenedictionDalyrimple Goes WrongThe Four FistsThe Beautiful and DamnedThe Jelly-BeanThe Camel's BackMay DayPorcelain and PinkThe Diamond as Big as the RitzThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonTarquin of Cheapside"e;O Russet Witch!"e;The Lees of HappinessMr. IckyJemina, the Mountain GirlSentiment-and the Use of RougeThe Pierian Springs and the Last StrawA Luckless Santa ClausMyra Meets His FamilyWinter DreamsTwo for a CentThe Mystery of the Raymond MortgageReade, Substitute Right HalfA Debt of HonorThe Room with the Green BlindsPain and the ScientistThe Trail of the DukeShadow LaurelsThe OrdealThe Dbutante (A One-Act Play)The SmilersThe Popular GirlThe Staying Up All NightPrinceton-The Last DayMarching Streets
F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America's greatest writers. His novel The Great Gatsby remains on the bestseller lists 70 years after his death. Tales of the Jazz Age defined a generation. It was Fitzgerald himself who coined the phrase. He and his wife lived a decadent, fast-paced lifestyle that is reflected in his writing. The recent major motion pictures The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is included in this collection, have led a new generation to rediscover his phenomenal talent. Reading Fitzgerald is a pleasure; his writing is lyrical and powerful.
It tells the story of Anthony Patch, his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what would soon be known as the Cafe Society
Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything, to do with cups or lips or pennies or brooms. This story Is the exception. It has to do with a material, visible and large-as-life camel's back.
This story tracks the lives of a married couple in New York, through various difficult and tragic events involving a cut glass bowl they received as a wedding gift.
"e;Oh, yes, coming out is such a farce nowadays, you know. One really plays around so much before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax."e;
A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.
It was clear to anyone who knew F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was destined to be a great writer. His early work won accolades from his professors and was published in Yale's literary Journal as well as other outlets. These stories show that even before his Yale days Ftizgerald was already exploring themes and subjects that would one day make him a legend. Included here are seventeen stories, a one act play and three poems. This is the most complete collection of Fitzgerald's earliest work available.
From boarding school to the business world, a man gets into confrontations that lead to him being punched in the face. But each time he learns something, and that-in turn-leads to great success.
A young southern woman is bored with her unchanging environment, and-much to her friends' chagrin-gets engaged to a northern man. After disregarding their concerns, she travels north during the winter to visit her fiance's home town and meet his family, and comes to a major realization.
A 'Jelly-bean' is "e;one who spends his life conjugating the verb "e;to idle.'"e; Born into middle-class society, a man becomes a grocery delivery boy after his father's untimely death, and soon descends into the seamier side of life: gambling and "e;listening to spicy tales of all the shootings that had occurred in the surrounding country."e;
A newlywed young woman and her short story-writing husband begin married life in a home of their own. When tragedy strikes, a friend comes to their aid.
A woman on a trip to Florida falls in love with the captain of the pirates who capture her. This is the first story that develops Fitzgerald's recurrent plot idea of a heroine won by her lover's performance of an extraordinary deed.
A society girl is enchanted to meet a very rich and eligible young man. No sooner do they meet than her father dies unexpectedly, leaving her impoverished. Too ashamed to admit her situation, she instead invents a fanciful world to convince the bachelor that she is still the popular girl he first met.
F. Scott Fitzgerald great American novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. At Princeton he falls in love with Isabelle Borge, and despite his efforts to court her, is rejected. Following their break-up, Amory is shipped overseas, to serve in the army in World War I. After the war, Amory Blaine falls in love with a New York debutante named Rosalind Connage.
The son of the owner of the second-best grocery store in a small Minnesota town, finds himself enacting a series of impetuous deeds inspired by his so-called 'winter dreams', which drive him to desire material success. But can they drive him to the woman of his dreams?
With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.
The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery.
'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.' Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
This edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and themes and the revision of its language. Fitzgerald reworked the manuscript, putting it through several drafts and continuing to edit until a few weeks before publication. The period of its creation was an amalgamation of his talent, inspiration, and self-discipline which resulted in a masterpiece. An introduction by James L. W. West, III, the general editor of the series, gives the compositional history of the novel; a bibliographical commentary by Don C. Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts at Princeton University Library, describes the manuscript and gives the story of its preservation, acquisition, and restoration. The reading text is presented without emendation and with a minimum of editorial apparatus. This edition will allow critics, teachers, and students to study The Great Gatsby as a fluid text, evolving and progressing toward its final form from its very earliest incarnation.
'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
As the summer unfolds, Nick is drawn into Gatsby's world of luxury cars, speedboats and extravagant parties. But the more he hears about Gatsby - even from what Gatsby himself tells him - the less he seems to believe. Did he really go to Oxford University? Was Gatsby a hero in the war? Did he once kill a man? Nick recalls how he comes to know Gatsby and how he also enters the world of his cousin Daisy and her wealthy husband Tom. Does their money make them any happier? Do the stories all connect? Shall we come to know the real Gatsby after reading Nick's account of that fateful summer?
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloging a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based.
No writer portrayed America's 'Roaring Twenties' as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his stories seem as fresh today as they did nearly a century ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works features two novels -This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned - and 19 short stories, including the classics Bernice Bobs Her Hair , The Diamond as Big as the Ritz , and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ';gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,' it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ';Jazz Age' of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "e;first step"e; American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "e;the charm and beauty of the writing,"e; as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "e;best work"e; thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "e;gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,"e; it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
This Side of Paradise follows life of Amory Blaine, an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and formulates his own philosophy of romantic egoism. The novel explores post war uncertainties, the theme of love, greed and status-seeking.
A collection of jazz age stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, portraying so vividly the decadent side of the American dream. This collection of stories includes: The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Four Fists.
A collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald the author of The Great Gatsby, portraying so vividly the decadent side of the American dream. This collection of stories is divided into three sections: My Last Flappers, Fantasies, Unclassified Masterpieces. The author's initial intent was to use fantasies for his personal amusement.These have become most popular and include such classics as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite exploring the New York cafe society scene during the Jazz Age.The story follows his relationship with his wife, Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald reflecting his meditations on love, money, decadence, and the American dream.
Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, tells of a handsome young man, Amory Blaine whose romantic relationships with women are touched with a reflection of his own narcissism. First published in 1920, it covers Amory's life at Princeton and later as a soldier during World War I. The central character is loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, and the female characters are mostly based on actual women in his life as well. The book was a solid success and helped Fitzgerald persuade Jazz Age icon Zelda Sayres, fictionalized in the novel, to marry him.
Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, tells of a handsome young man, Amory Blaine whose romantic relationships with women are touched with a reflection of his own narcissism. First published in 1920, it covers Amory's life at Princeton and later as a soldier during World War I. The central character is loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, and the female characters are mostly based on actual women in his life as well. The book was a solid success and helped Fitzgerald persuade Jazz Age icon Zelda Sayres, fictionalized in the novel, to marry him.
The Beautiful and the Damned is Fitzgerald's character study of American Eastern elites and the insecurities underpinning the courtship and marriage of his protagonists Anthony and Gloria. Drawing upon his own trouble marriage to Zelda Sayres, Fitzgerald paints a picture of the realities and hardships of a relationship where the two members tend towards selfishness and alcoholism. Published in 1922, it was Fitzgerald's second novel and predecessor to The Great Gatsby.
The Beautiful and the Damned is Fitzgerald's character study of American Eastern elites and the insecurities underpinning the courtship and marriage of his protagonists Anthony and Gloria. Drawing upon his own trouble marriage to Zelda Sayres, Fitzgerald paints a picture of the realities and hardships of a relationship where the two members tend towards selfishness and alcoholism. Published in 1922, it was Fitzgerald's second novel and predecessor to The Great Gatsby.
**The twentieth-century masterpiece, the authoritative new edition** With a new foreword by Jesmyn Ward, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Sing, Unburied, Sing `There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece third novel, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. Praise for The Great Gatsby: `A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times `More than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream' Guardian `F. Scott Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation' New York Times `An unquiet masterpiece whose mystery never fails to exert its power' Robert McCrum, Observer, `The 100 Best Novels in English'
**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** `This belated collection shows us the depths of Fitzgerald's vision and talent. Only now are we beginning to appreciate what was lost' The Pool I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions collected here were lost in one sense or another: physically lost, coming to light only recently; lost in the turbulence of Fitzgerald's later life; lost to readers because his editors sometimes did not understand what he was trying to write. These fascinating stories offer a new insight into the arc of Fitzgerald's career, and demonstrate his stylistic agility and imaginative power as a writer at the forefront of Modern literature. Praise for I'd Die for You: `Superbly edited and annotated, this richly fascinating miscellany is a marvellous reminder of what was lost when, at forty-four, a coronary killed Fitzgerald' Sunday Times `Forward-thinking for their time . . . Fitzgerald was a master of short story writing' The Times `This much-vaunted collection of stories . . . is a ragtag bundle of surprises, curios, irrelevancies and delights . . . We can marvel at the strength of his imagination, his display of elegance and precision' Sunday Telegraph `Readers will find much to enjoy in this gorgeously produced book' New York Times `A beguiling meditation on the dark side of wealth and the American dream' Independent
Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Beautiful and Damned, published in 1922 by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a Jazz age novel.The book is believed to be partially based off of Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife Zelda.
Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.This Side of Paradise is the first novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The story follows a Princeton student named Armory Blaine.Many characters from the novel were based off people in Fitzgerald's life.
Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Great Gatsby is the most famous novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.The book, which was recently turned into an award-winning movie, is Fitzgerald's finest portrayal of the Jazz Age and also explores themes of decadence and idealism.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Emotional Bankruptcy includes a table of contents.
Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century.Fitzgerald's intriguing Jazz Age stories are still widely read today. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:This Side of ParadiseThe Beautiful and DamnedSHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:Flappers and Philosophers (8 Short Stories)Tales of the Jazz Age (12 Short Stories)
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of News of Paris - Fifteen Years Ago includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Three Hours Between Planes includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Lost Decade includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Design in Plaster includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Financing Finnegan includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of An Alcoholic Case includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of 'I Didn't Get Over' includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Afternoon of an Author includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of More Than Just a House includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of What a Handsome Pair! includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Six of One includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of A Freeze-Out includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of A New Leaf includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of One Trip Abroad includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Bridal Party includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Swimmers includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of At Your Age includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Rough Crossing includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Basil and Cleopatra includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Forging Ahead includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Outside the Cabinet-Maker's includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of A Night at the Fair includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Magnetism includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Bowl includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Jacob's Ladder includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Love in the Night includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Echoes of the Jazz Age includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Pat Hobby Stories includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Taps at Reveille includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of All the Sad Young Men includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Tender is the Night includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of Tales of the Jazz Age includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer best known for his classic works highlighting the Jazz Age in the early 20th century. Fitzgerald only finished 4 novels yet is considered to be one of the most influential writers in American history. This edition of The Hotel Child includes a table of contents.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author best known for writing The Great Gatsby.Fitzgeralds writings on The Jazz Age are the most famous on the subject.This version of Fitzgeralds Flappers and Philosophers includes a table of contents and the following short stories:
Waxkeep Publishing Collections provide history's greatest authors' collected works in a convenient collection complete with a linked table of contents. Waxkeep Publishing's goal is to provide the most complete, and most easy to read collections in the marketplace.A table of contents is included.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author best known for writing The Great Gatsby.Fitzgeralds writings on The Jazz Age are the most famous on the subject.This version of Fitzgeralds The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age includes a table of contents and the following short stories:
This file includes: The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and This Side of Paradise. According to Wikipedia: "e;Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the Twenties. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, with another published posthumously, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age... Fitzgerald's work and legend has inspired writers ever since he was first published."e;
This book includes: The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's Back, may Day, Porcelain and Pink, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tarquin of Cheapside, O Russet Witch, The Lees of Happiness, Mr. Icky, and Jemina. According to Wikipedia: "e;Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the twenties. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, with another published posthumously, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age."e;
Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a selection of Fitzgerald's notebooks, which - as well as being a repository of anecdotes and witty lines - provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the novelist's creative process, with passages that would be reworked into his fiction.
This ebook contains F. Scott Fitzgerald's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
F. Scott Fitzgeralds Meisterwerk von 1925 ist eine der groen Liebesgeschichten der Weltliteratur. Jay Gatsby, durch dubiose Geschafte zum Millionar geworden, gibt in seiner Villa auf Long Island glanzvolle Partys fur die New Yorker Gesellschaft. Er selber aber traumt davon, die Vergangenheit wiederzubeleben und seine groe Liebe zuruckzugewinnen. Doch die Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit endet tragisch.
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "e;The Greatest Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald - 45 Titles in One Edition"e;. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This Side of Paradise (1920)The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909)Reade, Substitute Right Half (1910)A Debt of Honor (1910)The Room with the Green Blinds (1911)A Luckless Santa Claus (1912)Pain and the Scientist (1913)The Trail of the Duke (1913)Shadow Laurels (1915)The Ordeal (1915)Little Minnie McCloskey: A story for girls (1916)The old frontiersman: A story of the frontier (1916)The diary of a sophomore (1917)The prince of pests: A story of the war (1917)Cedric the stoker (1917)The Spire and the Gargoyle (1917)Tarquin of Cheapside (1917)Babes in the Woods (1917)Sentiment-And the Use of Rouge (1917)The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw (1917)Porcelain and Pink (1920)Head and Shoulders (1920)Benediction (1920)Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)Myra Meets His Family (1920)Mister Icky (1920)The Camel's Back (1920)Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)The Ice Palace (1920)The Offshore Pirate (1920)The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920)The Four Fists (1920)The Smilers (1920)May Day (1920)The Jelly-Bean (1920)The Lees of Happiness (1920)Jemina (1921): A Wild Thing, A Mountain Feud, The Birth of Love, A Mountain Battle, "e;As one."e;O Russet Witch! (1921)Tarquin of Cheapside (1921)The Popular Girl (1922)Two for a Cent (1922)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922)Winter Dreams (1922)Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "e;The Complete Works"e; of F. Scott Fitzgerald. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents:Stories 1909-17This Side of ParadiseFlappers and PhilosophersStories 1920-25The Beautiful and DamnedTales of the Jazz AgeThe VegetableThe Great GatsbyAll the Sad Young Men Stories 1926-34Tender is the NightTaps at ReveilleStories 1935-40The Love of the Last Tycoon StoriesThe Pat Hobby StoriesMiscellaneous WritingsFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows Benjamins life from his birth. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already capable of speech. His family soon realizes that Benjamin is aging in reverse, becoming younger as the years go by. The fascinating story looks at his triumphs and struggles as he slowly gains his youth. Adding in themes of love and acceptance, F. Scott Fitzgerald details the difficulties and feelings of not fitting into ones designated age group in an entertaining and insightful manor.
First published in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel The Beautiful and Damned portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Cafe Society. The story is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's stormy relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald. This is the tale of young couple Anthony and Gloria Patch living out their days to the hilt in New York City as they await the death of Anthony's grandfather, Adam Patch from whom they expect to inherit his massive fortune. They drink and eat in the classiest restaurants and hotels, rent the most expensive apartments, travel out to the West in the spring time driving plush cars, wearing top-of-the-line clothing and just generally living it up high on the hog, as they wait. But as time goes on their lust for life and their similarities threaten to destroy their innocence and their relationship. A fierce parable about the illusory quality of dreams, the intractable nature of reality, and the ruin wrought by time, The Beautiful and the Damned eerily anticipates the dissipation and decline that would come to the Fitzgeralds themselves before the decade had run its course.
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.
In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "e;a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."e; Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "e;Lost Generation"e; been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction.
The Great Gatsby introduces the reader to the post-war America and offers a ripping social commentary on the themes of power, crime, betrayal, greed and a vivid peek into the American life in the 1920s, also known as the ';Roaring Twenties'. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ';gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,' it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ';Jazz Age' of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ebook, 9788193607008
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In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "e;a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."e; Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "e;Lost Generation"e; been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction.
Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her mother. Rosemary becomes infatuated with Dick and becomes close to Nicole. Dick toys with the idea of having an affair with Rosemary. Rosemary senses something is wrong with the couple, which is brought to light when one of the guests at a party reports having seen something strange in the bathroom. Tommy Barban, another guest, comes loyally to the defense of the Divers. The action involves various other friends, including the Norths, where a frequent occurrence is the drunken behavior of Abe North. The story becomes complicated when Jules Peterson, a black man, is murdered and ends up in Rosemary's bed, in a situation which could destroy Rosemary's career. Dick moves the blood-soaked body to cover up any implied relationship between Rosemary and Peterson...
Last Kiss brings together some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career. Included in this volume are Fitzgerald's Thoughtbook, a revealing adolescent diary; an amusing self-interview, written in the early days of his initial fame; The Vegetable, his only published play; the five poems that he published after becoming a full-time author; twelve early book reviews, published between 1921 and 1923; seven short stories from the last decade of his career; seventeen public letters; six items of journalism, four of which attempt to explain the 'flapper' phenomenon; and unusual miscellaneous pieces. The texts, many of which are based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, are fully annotated and are supported by an apparatus that records all emendations and editorial adjustments.
*** Mit Ubersetzung der fremdsprachigen Passagen ***Der amerikanische Psychiater Richard (Dick) Diver lernt bei einem Besuch in einem Schweizer Sanatorium Nicole Warren, die psychisch labile Tochter eines schwerreichen Industriellen, kennen und lieben. Frher noch ein enthusiastischer, junger Arzt, der die Welt verbessern wollte, erliegt er nun dem sen Gift des Reichtums. Seine Ehefrau, scheinbar von ihren Psychose genesen, macht ihn zum Abhngigen in einem goldenen Kfig. Doch dann lernt er an der Riviera die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary kennen. Er sieht in Rosemary die Traumvorstellung, wie es auch htte sein knnen, wie sein Leben ohne Reichtum verlaufen wre. In der Beziehung zu ihr erhofft er sich, den verlorenen Lebenssinn wiederzufinden. Ein Roman wie ein Champagner-Cocktail. Wenn Fitzgeralds Helden leiden, dann immer mit Stil, mit Grandezza. 1. Auflage (berarbeitete Fassung)Umfang: 576 BuchseitenNull Papier Verlag
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes antebellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "e;in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced."e; What ramifications that creates for Benjamin's relationship with his father first and then later with his wife and his own son makes for some fantastical situations.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. This Side of Paradise blends different styles of writing: at times a fictional narrative, at times free verse, sometimes narrative drama, interspersed with letters and poems from Amory. In fact the novel's odd blend of styles was the result of Fitzgerald cobbling his earlier attempt at a novel The Romantic Egotist together with assorted short stories and poems that he composed, but never published. Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "e;it bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius. It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood."e; H. L. Mencken wrote that This Side of Paradise was the "e;best American novel that I have seen of late."e;
Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e;. Fitzgerald's introduction captures the spirit of the book fairly: This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald's fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post-World War I America who sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking. The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage due to its success. The book is written in three parts. "e;Book One: The Romantic Egotist"e;-The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy. While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis, where he re-encounters Isabelle Borge, a young lady whom he had met as a little boy, and starts a romantic relationship with her. At Princeton he repeatedly writes ever more flowery poems, but Amory and Isabelle become disenchanted with each other after meeting again at his prom. "e;Interlude"e;-Following their break-up, Amory is shipped overseas, to serve in the army in World War I. (Fitzgerald had been in the army himself, but the war ended while he was still stationed on Long Island.) Amory's experiences in the war are not described, other than to say later in the book that he was a bayonet instructor. "e;Book Two: The Education of a Personage"e;-After the war, Amory falls in love with a New York debutante named Rosalind Connage. Because he is poor, however, this relationship collapses as well; Rosalind decides to marry a wealthy man, instead. A devastated Amory is further crushed to learn that his mentor Monsignor Darcy has died. The book ends with Amory's iconic lament, "e;I know myself, but that is all"e;.
The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. `I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.' Jay Gatsby's opulent Long Island mansion throngs with the bright young things of the Roaring Twenties. But Gatsby himself, young, handsome and mysteriously rich, never appears to his guests. He stands apart from the crowd, yearning for something just out of reach - Daisy Buchanan, lost years before to another man. One fateful summer, when the pair finally reunite, their actions set in motion a series of events that will unravel their lives, bringing tragedy to all who surround them. Widely considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby is a tale of excess and obsession, and a work of classic twentieth-century American literature.
About The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e; is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 12, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. Wholesale Hardware. He meets the young Hildegarde Moncrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button; she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. Years later, Benjamin's business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Bored at home, he enlists in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal.
About The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e; is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 12, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. Wholesale Hardware. He meets the young Hildegarde Moncrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button; she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. Years later, Benjamin's business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Bored at home, he enlists in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal.
The Beautiful and the Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York cafe society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "e;the Great War"e; and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and the Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. Gloria and Anthony's love story is much more than just a couple falling in love. Their story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish. Joanna Stolarek suggests, Fitzgerald draws on "e;Zelda, the object of the writer's literary passion."e; Toward the end of the novel, Fitzgerald sums up the plot and his intentions in writing it somewhat, even referencing his own first novel, when a financially successful writer friend tells Anthony: "e;You know these new novels make me tired. My God! Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read 'This Side of Paradise'. Are our girls really like that? If it's true to life, which I don't believe, the next generation is going to the dogs. I'm sick of all this shoddy realism. I think there's a place for the romanticist in literature."e;
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 20, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. Wholesale Hardware. He meets the young Hildegarde Monchrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button; she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. Years later, Benjamin's business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Bored at home, he enlists in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal. In 1910, Benjamin, now looking like a 20-year-old, turns over control of his company to his son, Roscoe, and enrolls at Harvard University. His first year there is a great success: he dominates in football and takes revenge against Yale for rejecting him years before.
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e;. All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine (New York), Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair. The Jelly-Bean: This is a Southern story, with the setting laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. Fitzgerald wrote that he had "e;a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms."e; Written shortly after his first novel was published, the author also collaborated with his wife on certain scenes. The story momentarily follows the life of a "e;jelly-bean"e;, or idler, named Jim Powell. An invitation to a dance with the old crowd revives his dreams of social advancement and love, until the consequences of drink and power of money come through and ruin them. The Camel's Back: In the short introduction to this short story, Fitzgerald wrote, "e;I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement."e; The story, he confessed, was written "e;with the express purpose of buying a platinum and diamond wrist watch which cost six hundred dollars"e;, and took seven hours to finish. Though it was the least-liked story by Fitzgerald in the volume, it was included in the O. Henry Memorial Collection (of the O. Henry Award) of 1920. May Day: Published as a novelette in the The Smart Set in July, 1920, "e;May Day"e; relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year, during the "e;general hysteria"e; which inaugurated the Jazz Age. Porcelain and Pink: A play, published in The Smart Set in January, 1920.
**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions collected here were lost in one sense or another: physically lost, coming to light only recently; lost in the turbulence of Fitzgerald's later life; lost to readers because his editors sometimes did not understand what he was trying to write. These fascinating stories offer a new insight into the arc of Fitzgerald's career, and demonstrate his stylistic agility and imaginative power as a writer at the forefront of Modern literature. Praise for I'd Die for You: `Superbly edited and annotated, this richly fascinating miscellany is a marvellous reminder of what was lost when, at forty-four, a coronary killed Fitzgerald' Sunday Times `Forward-thinking for their time . . . Fitzgerald was a master of short story writing' The Times `This much-vaunted collection of stories . . . is a ragtag bundle of surprises, curios, irrelevancies and delights . . . We can marvel at the strength of his imagination, his display of elegance and precision' Sunday Telegraph `Readers will find much to enjoy in this gorgeously produced book' New York Times `A beguiling meditation on the dark side of wealth and the American dream' Independent
Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes eight stories: "e;The Offshore Pirate"e; "e;The Ice Palace"e; "e;Head and Shoulders"e; "e;The Cut-Glass Bowl"e; "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair"e; "e;Benediction"e; "e;Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"e; "e;The Four Fists"e;
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair.
The novel's new incarnation, This Side of Paradise , a largely autobiographical story about love and greed, was centered on Amory Blaine, an ambitious Midwesterner who falls in love with, but is ultimately rejected by, two girls from high-class families. The novel was published in 1920 to glowing reviews and, almost overnight, turned Fitzgerald, at the age of 24, into one of the country's most promising young writers. One week after the novel's publication, he married Zelda Sayre in New York. They had one child, a daughter named Frances Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1921. In 1922, Fitzgerald published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned , the story of the troubled marriage of Anthony and Gloria Patch. The Beautiful and Damned helped to cement his status as one of the great chroniclers and satirists of the culture of wealth, extravagance and ambition that emerged during the affluent 1920s-what became known as the Jazz Age.
Der amerikanische Psychiater Richard Diver, kurz Dick genannt, lernt bei einem Besuch in einem Schweizer Sanatorium die psychisch kranke Nicole kennen und verliebt sich in sie. Nach der gemeinsamen Hochzeit bekommen die beiden zwei Kinder und die Familie fuhrt, dank Nicoles Reichtum, in den kommenden Jahren ein extravagantes Wohlstandsleben an der Cote d Azur. Kunstler und weitere Exzentriker gehen in ihrem Haus ein und aus, weshalb Familie Diver eines Tages auch die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary Hoyt kennenlernt, die sich auf einer Urlaubsreise an der Riviera befindet. Die aufstrebende 18-Jahrige ist vom dekadenten Lebensstil und der freundlichen Art der reichen Exilamerikaner fasziniert und setzt sich bald darauf zum Ziel, Dick zu verfuhren. Auf einer gemeinsamen Fahrt nach Paris entdeckt auch er seine Gefuhle fur das junge Madchen, wodurch seine Ehefrau, aufgrund ihrer Eifersucht, einen Ruckfall in ihre Psychose erleidet. Dick entschliet sich dazu, mit Nicole abzureisen und die junge Rosemary nie wieder zu sehen, doch durch diese Entscheidung geht etwas in seinem Leben zu Bruch ...
Die jungen Eheleute Mr. und Mrs. Button blicken voller Hoffnung in die Zukunft: Mit Freuden erwarten sie ihr erstes Kind. Doch der Tag der Geburt wird fur Mr. Button zum Albtraum. Im Krankenhaus erwartet ihn kein sues, kleines Baby, sondern ein alter Mann mit langem Bart. Den jungen Benjamin ereilt ein sonderbares Schicksal: Er altert ruckwarts. Mit jedem Tag seines Lebens wird er junger, was seine Eltern auf eine schwere Probe stellt. Dennoch beschliet der Auenseiter seinen Weg zu gehen und findet eines Tages sogar die groe Liebe ...
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age , as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
F. Scott Fitzgerald vivio 44 anos. Una vida de excesos, de subida a los cielos y descenso a los infiernos. Con tan solo 23 anos se vuelve rico y famoso de la noche a la manana, y tan adepto al despilfarro como a la belleza, tan adicto al alcohol como a la literatura. Este libro de cartas, muchas de ellas inditas en castellano, abarcan el perodo desde el momento en que se convierte en un escritor reconocido hasta sus ltimos das en Hollywood, cuando era un novelista frustrado, olvidado y tena la salud hecha pedazos.
Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. F. Scott Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. This stunning Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tender is the Night features an afterword by Ned Halley.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Great Gatsby features an afterword by David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness. Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose. It is also a gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Tales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Flappers and Philosophers is Fitzgerald's first short story collection, published in 1920, immediately following his smash debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The collection contains 8 stories: "e;The Offshore Pirate,"e; "e;The Ice Palace,"e; "e;Head and Shoulders,"e; "e;The Cut-Glass Bowl,"e; "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"e; "e;Benediction,"e; "e;Dalyrimple Goes Wrong,"e; and "e;The Four Fists."e; These tales feature the beautiful and aloof debutantes, the charming, dissolute young men, and all the glamour and promise of The Lost Generation. This is classic Fitzgerald.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant success and established his literary reputation. In it he weaves elements of his years at Princeton, his military career, and the courtship of his wife Zelda (Rosalind) into a hilarious take on young adulthood. This Side of Paradise is always found on lists of the world's best books.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Tender is the Night chronicles Dick Diver's marriage to the mercurial Nicole. Their leisurely existence on the Riviera, their infidelities, Dick's excessive drinking, and ultimately, Nicole's descent into schizophrenia, underpin this brutally honest take on Fitzgerald's own life with his wife Zelda.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Fitzgerald's experiences as a screen writer in Hollywood provided the fodder for this unfinished novel (Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in December 1940 after having partially completed Chapter 6 of The Last Tycoon). The author's notes concerning the balance of the novel were collected and edited by literary critic Edmund Wilson, a close friend to Fitzgerald, and the book was published posthumously in 1941. The story concerns the rise to power of Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr, a character allegedly based on Irving Thalberg, whose talent, ambition and raw magnetism were traits Fitzgerald admired.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
While Fitzgerald is best known for his novels, he spent a great deal of his professional life writing short stories -- a key source of income. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was first published in Collier's in 1921, is one of his most clever. Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. The story was adapted for the big screen in a 2008 production that starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Set in the roaring twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel features Midwesterner Nick Carraway and his mysterious, wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Tempted by the magnificent allure of Gatsby's world, Carraway soon discovers that behind the facade lay obsession, madness, and tragedy.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
First published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, 'The Diamond as big as The Ritz' is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpieces. Fans of 'The Great Gatsby' will enjoy this satirical short story set during the Jazz Age.
First published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, 'The Diamond as big as The Ritz' is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's under-rated masterpieces. Fans of 'The Great Gatsby' will enjoy this satirical short story set during the Jazz Age.
The twenty short stories in A Change of Class were published by F. Scott Fitzgerald between September 1931 and March 1937. Fitzgerald wrote these stories for money, which he badly needed. His wife was being treated at expensive sanitariums and he was heavily in debt to his publisher and literary agent. The stories in A Change of Class are not all among Fitzgerald's best, but they are important in his career. They concern the Great Depression, social striving, class divisions, and professionalism. Several are set in the world of medicine and depict the lives of doctors, nurses, and their patients. The writing is strong, with vivid descriptions and sharp dialogue. A Change of Class provides freshly edited texts, based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Important readings, edited out or censored by magazine publishers, have been restored. The volume includes facsimiles, historical annotations, and a full record of emendation.
A Vintage Shorts ';Short Story Month' Selection The fantastical story by beloved Jazz Age writer, F. Scott Fitzgeralda dark and gleaming fairy tale about the excesses of wealth and the promise of the American Westselected from Fitzgerald's exuberant collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. On a summer break from his New England education, John T. Unger of Hades, accompanies a new friend to his father's private estatea hidden palace carved out of one solid diamond mountain where extravagance knows no bounds, and everything feels a spectacular dream to modest Unger until he discovers the frightful lengths to which the family will go to protect their secret and their treasure. An ebook Short.
Considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work, "e;The Great Gatsby"e; (1925) follows a cast of characters living in a fictional town on prosperous Long Island (New York) in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. It explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
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The bestselling novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary reputation and brought to vivid life the glory and despair of the ';Lost Generation' Raised by his mother, a charismatic eccentric determined to show her son the very best that life has to offer, Amory Blaine spends his childhood traveling from one party to the next. For this worldly sophisticate, life is heavenuntil reality comes crashing through the door. When a burst appendix limits his mobility, Blaine is sent to live in Minneapolis, where he finds that his unique sensibility does not endear him to the other boys. From prep school to Princeton to the crushing inhumanity of the US Army during World War I, Blaine searches for his proper place in the world. His quest brilliantly personifies the struggles of an entire generation that came of age in a time of great turmoil. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Witty, wise, and beautifully poignant short stories from a master of the form Bernice is pretty but awkward. She can't dance, flirt, or hold her liquor. When her sophisticated cousin, Marjorie, finally decides to help the poor girl, the results are dramaticsuddenly the boys are interested in Bernice. Too interested, thinks Marjorie. So she decides to play a cruel trickbut Bernice gets the last laugh. First published in the Saturday Evening Post, ';Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is a classic tale of the Jazz Age and but one of the highlights of this classic story collection. Other gems include ';The Ice Palace,' ';The Cut-Glass Bowl,' and ';The Offshore Pirate,' a delightfully clever story about a spoiled young girl who falls in love with an unlikely suitor. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
A master craftsman brings one of the most fascinating periods in American history to vivid life in these provocative and poignant short stories Born gray-haired and grumpy, Benjamin Button may be an infant, but his body and personality are those of an old man. Curiously, however, he grows younger with each passing year. Benjamin is aging backwards, which begs the question, when does a man become a man? And how do we recognize our true selves? A delightful fable that poses serious inquiries about the nature of existence, ';The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known stories and the centerpiece of this legendary collection. From the Jazz Age decadence of ';May Day' to the delightful fantasy of ';The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,' these evocative tales showcase one of the twentieth century's greatest authors at the height of his talent.
When Nick Carraway befriends his wealthy, charismatic neighbour, Jay Gatsby, Carraway finds himself drawn into the lavish parties and reckless abandon that defined the roaring twenties.And when Gatsby endeavours to recapture the love of the beautifuland marriedDaisy Buchanan, Nick finds himself at the center of a tragedy that will define the rest of his life.Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to todays digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
Dick Driver, a talented psychoanalyst, and his wife, Nicole, find their lives and marriage irretrievably altered by a chance meeting with Rosemary Hoyt, a young Hollywood starlet vacationing at the same resort on the French Riviera. But as Rosemarys infatuation with the coupleand with Dick in particulargrows, the fractures in Dick and Nicoles marriage are exposed.Author F. Scott Fitzgerald considered Tender Is the Night to be his greatest novel. Written during the period in which his wife, Zelda, was being treated in a mental institution, Tender Is the Night is believed to be the authors most autobiographical work, chronicling the deterioration of his marriage and his descent into alcoholism.Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to todays digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
The adored son of a wealthy, alcoholic mother and an absentee father, Amory Blaines youth is defined by the social strictures of the early twentieth century. He attends country-club parties, makes the acquaintance of proper young women, and attends an elite private school.But even as Amory comes into his own as a Princeton student, he struggles to make a meaningful, and lasting, romantic connection, falling in love first with the beautiful Isabelle Borg and then with the debutante Rosalind Connage, whose rejection of Amory proves devastating.Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to todays digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.
Set in the roaring twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel features Midwesterner Nick Carraway and his mysterious, wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Tempted by the magnificent allure of Gatsby's world, Carraway soon discovers that behind the facade lay obsession, madness, and tragedy.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
While Fitzgerald is best known for his novels, he spent a great deal of his professional life writing short stories -- a key source of income. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was first published in Collier's in 1921, is one of his most clever. Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. The story was adapted for the big screen in a 2008 production that starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Fitzgerald's experiences as a screen writer in Hollywood provided the fodder for this unfinished novel (Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in December 1940 after having partially completed Chapter 6 of The Last Tycoon). The author's notes concerning the balance of the novel were collected and edited by literary critic Edmund Wilson, a close friend to Fitzgerald, and the book was published posthumously in 1941. The story concerns the rise to power of Hollwood producer Monroe Stahr, a character allegedly based on Irving Thalberg, whose talent, ambition and raw magnetism were traits Fitzgerald admired.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Flappers and Philosophers is Fitzgerald's first short story collection, published in 1920, immediately following his smash debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The collection contains 8 stories: "e;The Offshore Pirate,"e; "e;The Ice Palace,"e; "e;Head and Shoulders,"e; "e;The Cut-Glass Bowl,"e; "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"e; "e;Benediction,"e; "e;Dalyrimple Goes Wrong,"e; and "e;The Four Fists."e; These tales feature the beautiful and aloof debutantes, the charming, dissolute young men, and all the glamour and promise of The Lost Generation. This is classic Fitzgerald.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant success and established his literary reputation. In it he weaves elements of his years at Princeton, his military career, and the courtship of his wife Zelda (Rosalind) into a hilarious take on young adulthood. This Side of Paradise is always found on lists of the world's best books.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
Tender is the Night chronicles Dick Diver's marriage to the mercurial Nicole. Their leisurely existence on the Riviera, their infidelities, Dick's excessive drinking, and ultimately, Nicole's descent into schizophrenia, underpin this brutally honest take on Fitzgerald's own life with his wife Zelda.Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most notable and public American writers during the Roaring Twenties, and well after he had flamed out both professionally and personally, there was a revival of interest in his works, especially The Great Gatsby, which is now considered one of the Great American Novels. His works continue to be viewed as the epitome of the Jazz Age lifestyle, with Fitzgerald writing what he lived.Like most of his works, The Beautiful and Damned is a semi-autobiographical look at Fitzgerald's lifestyle, and along the way he provides a critique of the Jazz Age's most notable themes, including money, love, and decadence. He does this by analyzing a relationship between a young man ad his wife, an obvious reference to his own relationship with his wife Zelda.
Mercurial Jay Gatsby's destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan is played out against the background of Long Island high society. Viewed through the eyes of an outsider, Gatsby's life is the story of a generation - glitz and glamour turning sour, and the high life turning to ashes. Immersing you in the decadence of America's Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby is brought to life in this sizzling new stage adaptation. Recreating the sights, sounds and feel of America's `Roaring Twenties' as seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a brilliant evocation of a society obsessed with wealth and status. This masterful adaptation by Stephen Sharkey was first published to coincide with the premiere and national tour by Blackeyed Theatre, opening in September 2015.
The Unofficial Autobiography of F. Scott Fitzgerald"e;Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again."e; - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of ParadiseAmory Blaine is a young upper-class boy confident he can make a living out of writing literature. He attends Princeton University, serves in World War I and returns to the United States where he ends up poor, without any close confidantes and with a broken heart. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you'll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can't wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, he is a modern master. This eBook offers you the unique opportunity of exploring F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a manner never before possible in digital print. The edition includes every Fitzgerald story collection (published in his lifetime), short story, with poems and non-fiction articles and other bonus texts. (Version 2)Features:* annotated introductions to the works, giving contextual information* illustrated with many images relating to Fitzgerald's life, works, places and film adaptations* ALL the novels, each with its own contents table* ALL the short story collections and each with their own contents table* overall contents tables for the short stories - both alphabetical and chronological - find that special story quickly and easily!* rare short stories previously uncollected from periodicals and magazines* includes Fitzgerald's poetry and non-fiction printed in the periodicals of his day* EVEN includes the unfinished novel THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON, available nowhere else* UPDATED with Fitzgerald's St Paul plays - explore the young writer's first dramatic works.* UPDATED with Fitzgerald's letters - spend hours exploring the writer's personal correspondence.* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Fitzgerald's worksPlease note: we aim to provide the most comprehensive author collections available to our readers. Sadly, it's not possible to guarantee an absolutely 'complete' works, due to copyright restrictions on plays and the scarcity of some minor works. However, we do ensure our customers that every possible major text, with bonus material, is included. If you feel a significant text is missing, please contact us via this site. Biographies and critical works are unavailable at this time due to copyright restrictions, but they will be added when they enter the public domain.CONTENTS:The NovelsTHIS SIDE OF PARADISETHE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNEDTHE GREAT GATSBYTENDER IS THE NIGHTTHE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOONThe Short Story CollectionsFLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERSTALES FROM THE JAZZ AGEALL THE SAD YOUNG MENTAPS AT REVEILLETHE PAT HOBBY STORIESMISCELLANEOUS STORIESThe Short StoriesCHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIESALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIESThe Plays and ScreenplaysTHE GIRL FROM LAZY JTHE CAPTURED SHADOWCOWARDASSORTED SPIRITSSHADOW LAURELSPORCELAIN AND PINKMR. ICKYTHE VEGETABLE,"e;SEND ME IN, COACH"e;THREE COMRADESINFIDELITYThe PoetryLIST OF POETRYThe Non-FictionLIST OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLESThe LettersLIST OF CORRESPONDENTS
El Gran Gatsby es el retrato magistral de la sociedad neoyorkina que vive locamente la posguerra, a la que el enigmatico magnate Jay Gatsby prodiga grandes fiestas. Una historia sobre la ambicion, el desenfreno, la superficialidad, el dinero, el amor, pero, por encima de todo, sobre el deseo de recuperar el pasado.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the 1920s. Contents: Novels: The Great GatsbyThe Side of ParadiseTender Is the NightThe Beautiful and DamnedThe Love of the Last TycoonCollections of Short Stories:Tales from the Jazz AgeAll the Sad Young MenThe Pat Hobby StoriesTaps at ReveilleFlappers and PhilosophersPlays and Screenplays:The VegetableThe Girl from Lazy JThe Captured ShadowCowardShadow LaurelsAssorted SpiritsPorcelain and PinkThree ComradesMr. Icky "e;Send me in, Coach"e;InfidelityPoetry:First LoveClay FeetFootballFor a Long IllnessFragmentMarching Streets (1919 version)Marching Streets (1945 version)Lamp in the WindowOh, Sister, Can you spare you heartOh Misseldine'sPrinceton - The Last DayThe Staying up all nightThe Rope at ConfessionThousand-and-First ShipOur April LetterOne Southern GirlTo BoathRain Before DawnArticles:The Claims of the LitContemporary Writers and Their WorkWho's Who - and Why"e;What I Was Advised to Do - and Didn't"e;Some Stories They Like to Tell Again10 Best Books I Have ReadThe Pampered MenHow to Live on $36,000 a YearHow to Live on Practically Nothing a YearHow to Waste MaterialPrincetonTen Years in the Advertising BusinessEchoes of the Jazz AgeMy Lost CityOne Hundred False StartsRingSleeping and WakingMy Ten Favorite PlaysThe Crack-upPasting It TogetherHandle with CareAuthor's HouseAfternoon of an AuthorEarly SuccessPrefaceMy GenerationLettersTo Zelda FitzgeraldTo Ernest HemingwayTo Frances Scott FitzgeraldTo Maxwell PerkinsTo John Peale BishopTo Mrs Bayard Turnbull...
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Tales of the Jazz Age)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e; is anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was released as a motion picture late in 2008 starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher. The screenplay differs greatly from the short story. Only the title, Benjamin's name, and most aspects of the aging process are retained in the screenplay. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the 1920s.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the 1920s. Excerpt:"e;To Ernest Hemingway:Dear Ernest,Your stories were great (in April Scribners). But like me you must beware Conrad rhythms in direct quotation from characters, especially if you're pointing a single phrase and making a man live by it 'In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more' is one of the most beautiful prose sentences I've ever read. So much has happened to me lately that I despair of ever assimilating it - or forgetting it, which is the same thing. I hate to think of your being hard up. Please use this if it would help. The Atlantic will pay about $200.00, I suppose. I'll get in touch with Perkins about itTable of Contents:To Zelda FitzgeraldTo Ernest HemingwayTo Frances Scott FitzgeraldTo Maxwell PerkinsTo John Peale BishopTo Mrs Bayard TurnbullTo Christian GaussTo Harold OberTo Mrs Richard TaylorTo Edmund WilsonTo Gerald and Sara MurphyOther Letters
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "e;Lost Generation"e; of the 1920s. Excerpt:"e;It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun? Isolated during the European War, we had begun combing the unknown South and West for folkways and pastimes, and there were more ready to handTable of Contents: Echoes of the Jazz AgeTales from the Jazz Age:My Last Flappers:The Jelly-beanThe Camel's BackMay DayPorcelain and PinkFantasies:The Diamond As Big As the RitzThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonTarquin of CheapsideO Russet Witch!Unclassified Masterpieces:The Lees of HappinessMr. IckyJemina, the Mountain GirlThe Beautiful and DamnedThe Great Gatsby Babylon RevisitedWinter Dreams
The book that launched F. Scott Fitzgerald to stardomThis Side of Paradise was first published in 1920 and was considered daring and intellectual in its day. Its enormous popularity helped to launch young Fitzgerald's career as a major writer.Amory Blaine has been brought-up by a wealthy, idiosyncratic, and alcoholic mother. Snobbish because he knows no better, he is uncomfortable with others and must learn the proper social etiquette and values embraced by his peers. As he progresses to Princeton University from the Midwest, he flirts with some predatory young women and chances friendship with some intellectual young men. Will he find happiness, or will his life be forever burdened by his ineptitude this side of paradise?This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.
The bestselling Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgeralds final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, depth and ultimate destruction of love between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre, who was at the time of his writing confined in a mental institution.A deliberately ambitious work, Tender is the Night is the compelling story of Dick Diver, a gifted psychoanalyst at the beginning of his career, his wife Nicole, one of his patients, and their holiday encounter with Rosemary Hoyt. In his narrative Fitzgerald experimented with point of view and chronology, and drew on psychiatric practices and experimentation as they related to his characters experiences.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
"e;Ideal for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the literary works of an iconic American author. Very highly recommended."e; ― The Midwest Book ReviewAlthough better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald ranked among the top writers of magazine fiction. Fitzgerald represented the dreams and aspirations of the post-World War I generation in his life as well as his works. With his glamorous wife, Zelda, and cosmopolitan social circle, the gifted young wordsmith projected the perfect image for narrating tales of restless youth in a hectic world. These short stories offer insights into many themes, characters, and techniques that emerged in Fitzgerald's later works. "e;Winter Dreams,"e; written three years before The Great Gatsby, shares the concept of commitment to an idealized dream. "e;Babes in the Woods,"e; developed while the author was still a student at Princeton, evidences the roots of This Side of Paradise. A dozen other selections ― including "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"e; "e;The Camel's Back,"e; "e;The Four Fists,"e; and "e;The Cut-Glass Bowl"e; ― offer further insights into the author's growing skills as well as individual examples of his sparkling prose, understated wit, and deft characterizations.
If the 'Roaring Twenties' are remembered as the era of 'flaming youth', it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. This book traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York City, and captures the spirit of the roaring twenties. No writer portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fuelled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published nearly a century ago. This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works features two full-length novels-This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned-and 19 short stories, including the classics 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.Written as only they could be by an insider to the society that they portray, the 21 works collected in this volume capture the precarious splendor and doomed glory of that opulent era that their author called the Jazz Age.
This collection, originally assembled by the author in 1922, features some of F. Scott Fitzgeralds most impressive and recognized pieces of short fiction. Divided into three parts, the tales are a diverse assortment, including the whimsical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the visceral May Day, and the adventurous The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.Although he is better known for novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald was also a skilled short-story writer, and Tales of the Jazz Age includes some of the best examples of the authors writing in this genre.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work. Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected eleven forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder.
The fourth and final novel from the author of The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night is his darkest, most incisive novel.Tender is the Night tells the story of the gifted young psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife and patient Nicole, opening upon their arrival at a posh French resort. Written while Fitzgerald's wife was going through treatment for Schizophrenia, it explores topics including the possibility of a successful relationship and even the possibility of genuine mental health. The 1962 film adaptation included an Oscar-nominated song of the same title as the novel.Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficulty, working with texts that had, in many cases, been censored by the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Using evidence from the drafts that bear Fitzgerald's final revisions, this edition presents for the first time restored texts of the stories, with censored material reinstated and sexual innuendo as Fitzgerald originally intended. This volume offers as well an extended historical introduction, explanatory notes, textual apparatus, and, in an appendix, 'Thank You for the Light', a vignette recently discovered among Fitzgerald's literary remains and published for the first time in 2012.
Early 20th century America was a time of upheaval and strife. The Beautiful and Damned follows two socialites, Anthony and Gloria Patch, through the years and into the roaring twenties as they try desperately to find a place for themselves. Set in New York beginning in the pre-war years and moving through World War I into during the Jazz Age, and the Great Depression, The Beautiful and Damned concerns itself with the idle rich, and a quest for identity and purpose in a tumultuous world. It explores the idea of nostalgia, and the problems with being trapped in one's past instead of confronting the present. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
A classic American novel, The Great Gatsby is a monumental exploration of the American Dream, set in a colourful world of crime, infidelity, and lost love. Nick Carraway has just moved to Long Island, and the biggest name on the block is Gatsby, the eccentric millionaire who throws parties he does not attend. When Nick gets a chance to meet him he finds himself pulled into Gatsby's machinations to win back his lost love Nick's married cousin, Daisy. F. Scott Fitzgerald vividly captures the roaring twenties in this, possibly his most famous work, all while exploring themes ranging from decadence and excess to massive social change and how to navigate it. Widely considered one of the great American novels, The Great Gatsby has been adapted to the screen multiple times, most recently in 2013, with Baz Luhrmann directing, Leonardo DiCaprio starring, and Jay-Z providing music. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a young presumptive heir to a fortune and his relationship with his wife Gloria. Patch serves in the army and struggles with alcoholism as he seeks a greater meaning to his life. The novel provides an excellent
Collectors Edition! Flappers and Philosophers was first published in 1920, on the heels of the young author's smash hit novel This Side of Paradise. The collection contains some of his most famous early stories, including "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"e; "e;The Ice
Collectors Edition! Tales Of The Jazz Age is an anthology of classic short stories by the renowned 20th Century American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is best known for his enduring classic "e;The Great Gatsby"e;. Satirizing the selfishness of the wealthy,
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Born with the appearance of a 70yearold man, Benjamin Button grows physically younger with each passing year, until, in the end . . . Well, you'll just have to read it for yourself. A masterful story from the master storyteller of the Jazz Age. The author
This highly readable novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch. Building their marriage on the shaky foundation of an expected inheritance, they devote their youth and happiness on hedonistic pursuits
A brilliant, sharp-edged novel of the Jazz Age by its most famous chroniclerWith his impeccable lineage and Harvard education, twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch is one of the sparkling lights of New York society. The presumptive heir to an enormous fortune, he marries the tempestuous Kansas City socialite Gloria Gilbert, and the two embark on a life of wild extravagance and profligate pleasure, assuming that whatever they cannot afford today they will be able to pay for tomorrow. But when Anthony's inheritance disappears, so too does his sense of invincibility. A brief tour in the Great Warwhere he finds comfort in another woman's armscannot correct Anthony's downward trajectory, and the marriage that began with such glittering promise ends in shambles.Fitzgerald's next novel, The Great Gatsby, would be his masterwork. But The Beautiful and Damned, with its evocative parallels to his relationship with Zelda and its prescient portrait of a man tumbling from dazzling heights to gloomy depths, is arguably his most personal.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Joel Coles should be in the prime of his life, but the twenty-eight-year-old screenwriter has yet to accomplish anything of significance. Unfortunately, Joel is acutely aware of his own shortcomings, and the knowledge that his writing is stale and uninspired has driven him to seek solace in a bottle. His only prospects may lie in his relationship with a rich and popular Hollywood couple, Miles and Stella Calman, who are suffering problems of their own.Despite his popularity, F. Scott Fitzgerald had a hard time finding a publisher for Crazy Sunday because he refused to make changes that would censor the content. Eventually, the story was picked up by the magazine American Mercury.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things dont go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides to drown his sorrows and soon ends up attending the same costume party as Betty, dressed in an elaborate camel costume.The Camels Back was published in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age, and, according to the author, was written so that he could earn enough money to buy a new diamond wristwatch.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreamsto one day be as elite as the old-money families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones.First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgeralds Winter Dreams was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby. It is his most popular and republished short story within the Gatsby-cluster.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
As the May Day Riots of 1919 are breaking out, a group of Yale alumni gather for a jazz dance, revealing the disparate backgrounds, existence, and expectations of the American upper and lower classes. The interrelated events of F. Scott Fitzgeralds story capture both the hysteria and privileged existence of the young and the wealthy in the early days of the Jazz Age. May Day was originally published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a 1920 issue of the magazine Smart Set. In 1922, it was republished in a collection of Fitzgeralds stories called Tales of the Jazz Age, which included ten other short stories, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the calendar blues. But, as a friend advises, there isnt time to drift into romance, so she must instead pick out the best thing in sightand go after him hammer and tongs.Myra Meets His Family is typical of F. Scott Fitzgeralds early commercial stories in terms of character, setting and theme, and although Fitzgerald feared it was no good, it sold it easily to The Saturday Evening Post for four hundred dollars, marking the authors second appearance in the renowned magazine. Fox Film Corporation released the theatrical version of the story that same year titled The Husband Hunter, starring Eileen Percy.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Beautiful and rebellious, young aristocrat Ardita Farnam finds herself at the mercy of pirates when her uncles yacht is taken over by musicians-turned-armed robbers, Curtis Carlyle and his Six Black Buddies. Fleeing south with Curtis and his band, Ardita, egotist though she is, finds she is more interested in the pirate leader than in her own precarious situation.The Offshore Pirate was included in author F. Scott Fitzgeralds first collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers and, in 2013, was the basis for a short film of the same title set in the Cook Islands.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Head and Shoulders is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarboxthe headanswers the door to Vaudeville star Marciathe shoulders. Marcias performance is but the first step in an astonishing role reversal that will prove, when you [open] the door at the rap of life, you let in many things.Head and Shoulders was collected in Flappers and Philosophers (1920), and is resonant with many of F. Scott Fitzgeralds most popular themes including mismatched lovers, the sacrifices made for love, and romantic disappointment.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.' The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet - an affair that threatens to destroy his reign as the Silver Screen's golden boy. In this tragic tale Fitzgerald exposes the corruption, sex and towering ambition at the dark heart of 1930s Hollywood. Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald bids his own poignant farewell to the themes that inspired `The Great Gatsby', `Tender is the Night' and `The Beautiful and Damned'.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficulty, working with texts that had, in many cases, been censored by the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Using evidence from the drafts that bear Fitzgerald's final revisions, this edition presents for the first time restored texts of the stories, with censored material reinstated and sexual innuendo as Fitzgerald originally intended. This volume offers as well an extended historical introduction, explanatory notes, textual apparatus, and, in an appendix, 'Thank You for the Light', a vignette recently discovered among Fitzgerald's literary remains and published for the first time in 2012.
A collection of short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald - including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. The Jazz Age. A time of opulence and excess. Of boredom and glamour. Of the shifting morals that followed the First World War. The 1920s and '30s were heady decades captured perfectly by Fitzgerald in this collection of short stories. From 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' to 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', this collection takes the reader through the turmoil of the early 20th century, when a generation of young people cast off the weight and tradition of the past and embraced the moment.
This volume assembles 46 classic works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ranging from short stories to novels to poetry and essays. Included are:THE JELLY-BEANTHE CAMEL'S BACKMAY DAYPORCELAIN AND PINKTHE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZTHE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONTARQUIN OF CHEAPSIDE"e;O RUSSET WITCH!"e;THE LEES OF HAPPINESSMR. ICKYJEMINA, THE MOUNTAIN GIRLTHE OFFSHORE PIRATETHE ICE PALACEHEAD AND SHOULDERSTHE CUT-GLASS BOWLBERNICE BOBS HER HAIRBENEDICTIONDALYRIMPLE GOES WRONGTHE FOUR FISTSTHE POPULAR GIRLTWO FOR A CENTWINTER DREAMSMYRA MEETS HIS FAMILYTHE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNEDTHE SIDE OF PARADISETHE BALTIMORE ANTI-CHRIST (essay)POOR OLD MARRIAGE (essay)THE MYSTERY OF THE RAYMOND MORTGAGEREADE, SUBSTITUTE RIGHT HALFA DEBT OF HONORTHE ROOM WITH THE GREEN BLINDSA LUCKLESS SANTA CLAUSPAIN AND THE SCIENTISTTHE TRAIL OF THE DUKETHE USUAL THINGLITTLE MINNIE McCLOSKEYTHE OLD FRONTIERSMANTHE SPIRE AND THE GARGOYLETHE DIARY OF A SOPHOMORETHE PRINCE OF PESTSPRINCETON-THE LAST DAY (poem)SENTIMENT-AND THE USE OF ROUGETHE PIERIAN SPRINGS AND THE LAST STRAWSTAYING UP ALL NIGHT (poem)CEDRIC THE STOKERMARCHING STREETS (poem)If you enjoy this volume, check out other entries (including literature, mysteries, westerns, science fiction, ghost stories, and much more) in this best-selling series. Search on "e;Wildside Press Megapack"e; in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list. (Sort by date to see the most recent additions.)
Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her mother. Rosemary gets sucked into the circle of the Divers; she becomes infatuated with Dick and is also adopted as a close friend by Nicole. Dick first toys with the idea of an affair with Rosemary at this point, which he finally acts upon years later. Once into the book, the history of the Divers emerges. Dick Diver was a doctor and psychoanalyst and had taken on a complicated case of neuroses. This was Nicole, whose complicated, incestuous relationship with her father is suggested as the cause of breakdown. The underlying theme is then how one person has become strong by destroying another.
Even in its incomplete form The Love of The Last Tycoon has achieved a reputation as the best novel about Hollywood. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the 'unfinished novel' was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years this edition, which is not true to the original work in progress, has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon, first published in 1994, utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work. The volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; fascimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's plan for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful. F. Scott Fitzgerald's incomplete masterpiece is restored its 1940 state, and thus made fully accessible to a cross-section of readers.
This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime. This edition is based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendices. The complex history of composition for 'The Rich Boy' is untangled, and Fitzgerald's thorough revision of 'Winter Dreams' is described. Important passages of sexual innuendo and tabloid-style scandal in 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Love Boat', and 'Magnetism' - removed by editors at the Saturday Evening Post - are restored to the Cambridge texts.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), was a pivotal book in his career. A trenchant satire of the Jazz Age, it is very much a novel of its times. This edition is based on the surviving manuscript, the serialized version from Metropolitan magazine, the Scribners 1922 first American edition, and the Collins 1922 first British edition. The volume includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel, a textual apparatus, a chronology of composition, and, uniquely, three versions of the ending. Explanatory notes identify Fitzgerald's topical and historical references - to books and authors, Broadway shows and Manhattan cabarets, movie stars and sports heroes, statesmen and criminals, business tycoons and historical figures. These notes situate The Beautiful and Damned in its times and deepen the reader's understanding of Fitzgerald's sources for the novel.
Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald's autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes in the Cambridge Edition, provides accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Words and passages cut by magazine editors have been restored to several of the essays. A textual apparatus has been included, along with full explanatory notes identifying people, places, books, historical events, and other details.
During the last six years of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an Esquire author. Between 1934 and 1940, Fitzgerald sold some forty-five pieces of writing to the magazine - fiction, nonfiction, and personal essays. This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby Series -seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s. One other story - 'Dearly Beloved', submitted to Esquire but not published there - is included as an appendix. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. A textual apparatus records editorial decisions; explanatory notes identify people, places, literary works, historical events, and references to Hollywood actors, directors, and films. The volume also includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings.
For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgeralds early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgeralds working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his geniusnow available in ebook for the first time.Reading F. Scott Fitzgeralds Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a familiar musical composition played in a different key. It is the same work and yet a different work. Fitzgerald wrote Trimalchio during the summer of 1924 and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribners, in October of that year. (He titled the book after the ostentatious party-giver in the Satyricon of Petronius.) Perkins had the novel set in type and sent the galleys to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then heavily revised the galley pages, shifting material around and changing the title. The result was The Great Gatsby, his signature work. Trimalchio, however, is also a remarkable achievement. It differs considerably from The Great Gatsby: its plot and structure are not the same, two chapters of Trimalchio were completely rewritten for the published novel, characterization is different, Nick Carraways narrative voice is altered, and it contains several passages and sequences missing from Gatsby. Most importantly, in Trimalchio Jay Gatsbys past is revealed in a wholly different way.
Fitzgerald war der literarische Wortfuhrer des "e;Jazz Age"e;. Er hat das glitzernde New York der Zwischenkriegsjahre, das sich fur die Rhythmen von Duke Ellington und Louis Armstrong begeisterte, eingefangen, ohne die Frage auszublenden, ob dieser Glanz trugerisch sei. Seine Helden, kaum verhullte Selbstportrats, strotzen nur so vor Selbstbewusstsein und leiden zugleich an ihrem Ausbeuten der eigenen Seele. Ungekrzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit bersetzungen schwieriger Wrter am Fu jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Mit Seitenzhlung der gedruckten Ausgabe: Buch und E-Book knnen parallel benutzt werden.
Unfinished at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon was F. Scott Fitzgeralds last novel, compiled and published posthumously. A Hollywood heavyweight, Monroe Stahr embarks on a passionate but ill-fated love affair with the beautiful Kathleen Moore while struggling to hold on to his success and fend off his chief rival, Pat Brady. Published under the working title The Last Tycoon, in the decades following Fitzgeralds death it has been accepted that he intended the work to be titled The Love of the Last Tycoon; it has been published as such since 1993. Although incomplete, The Last Tycoon has been adapted for television and film based on Fitzgeralds extensive notes and outlines for the complete work. This edition of The Last Tycoon contains the six chapters that had been completed at the time of Fitzgeralds death in 1940. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry - based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has to confront the pitfalls of popularity. Written for the Saturday Evening Post while the author was working on Tender Is the Night, these stories form a realistic and entertaining portrait of two young adults in the 1910s, fascinating both for the autobiographical insights they provide and the timeless satire that Fitzgerald's fiction has become synonymous with.
F. Scott Fitzgerald muvei - legyen az regeny, novella vagy szindarab - a '20-as evek jazzkorszakarol"e; szolnak, a nagyvarosi sodrodasrol, valtozasokrol, azokrol egy egyeni problemakrol, melyek egyedive teszik az embert az egyre elszemelytelenedo es elidegenito 20. szazadban. A haboru utani ifjusagrol, az elveszett nemzedekrol"e; ir - belulrol. A harcterek lukteteset felvalto jazz, a pillanatnyisag, a melysegek nelkuli tartalmak keresese, a meroben megvaltozott eletkorulmenyek es tarsadalmi-erkolcsi szabalyok szovik at Fitzgerald prozavilagat. Az Eltkozolt vtized a Fitzgeraldra oly jellemzA tmj s stlus rvidebb rsokat, tbbek kzt a Flappers and Philosophers cmA novellsktet darabjait is tartalmazza.
Fitzgerald egyetlen darabja (melyet novellabol bovitett vigjatekka), amit meg az iro elete soran bemutattak; 1923. november 19-en a Nixon's Apollo Theatre-ben, Atlantic Cityben vittek szinre, azonban oriasi bukas lett. Zelda Fitzgerald azt irta rola egy leveleben, hogy a kozonseg lathatolag unta magat, tobben el is hagytak a nezoteret. Maga Fitzgerald is elegedetlen volt, szive szerint allitolag sajat maga allittatta volna le az eloadast az elso par jelenet utan. Azonban napjainkban olvasva a darabot szinte erthetetlen, miert is lehetett ez bukas akkor. A darab fA hA se, Jerry s felesge, Charlotte olyan hzassgban lnek, melyben mindketten boldogtalanok. Taln mr nem is szeretik egymst. Charlotte elgedetlen frjvel, annak motivlatlansgval, modorval: A klnbet rdemelne. Jerry pedig gy rzi, minden ambcit kilt belA le felesge s a frj-lt. A hzasprral l mg Jerry apja, a kiss mr szenilis Papa, aki szvesen jr knyvtrba, amikor pp nem Biblijt olvassa. Charlotte hga, a 19 ves, nagyon modern, a kor divatjt a msodvonalbl majmol Doris is tbbszr megfordul a hzasprnl. Semmitmond htkznapjaikat azonban egyszer csak megvltoztatja egy szeszcsempsz, Snooks, aki 18 dollrrt olyan gint kevert Jerry krsre, amitA l hirtelen minden megvltozik gy lesz a vasutas-tisztviselA bA l Elnk, az ElnkbA l pedig a vilg legjobb postsa. Az abszurd trtnetvezets szrakoztat voltn tl azonban rdemes odafigyelni a szereplA k sorsknyveire"e;, hogy miknt vltoztatjk vagy vltoztathatjk azokat, s hogy a vltozsok fnyben hogy rtkelA dik t - minden.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This eBook offers you the unique opportunity of exploring F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a manner never before possible in digital print. The edition includes every Fitzgerald story collection, short story, with poems and non-fiction. Table of Contents: Stories 1909-17 This Side of Paradise Flappers and Philosophers Stories 1920-25 The Beautiful and Damned Tales of the Jazz Age The Vegetable The Great Gatsby All the Sad Young Men Stories 1926-34 Tender is the Night Taps at Reveille Stories 1935-40 The Love of the Last Tycoon Stories 1941- The Pat Hobby Stories Miscellaneous Writings Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Stories of 1920 - 1925"e; contains 14 stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. To supplement his income, he turned to writing short stories for such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire magazine, and sold the film rights of his stories and novels to Hollywood studios. He was constantly in financial trouble and often required loans from his literary agent, Harold Ober, and his editor at Scribner's, Maxwell Perkins. Table of Contents: Myra Meets his Family. The Smilers. The Popular Girl. Two for A Cent. Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar. Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman. The Third Casket. The Unspeakable Egg. John Jackson's Arcady. The Pusher-in-the-Face. Love in the Night. One of my Oldest Friends. A Penny Spent. Not in the Guidebook. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Vegetable, or From President to Postman - The Original 1923 Edition"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Vegetable, or From President to Postman is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that he developed into a play. The main character, Jerry Frost is a low-level clerk. He is in an unhappy marriage and throughout the work he is striving for something more, yet he consistently falls short. The setting is both the Midwest and the East. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Great Gatsby - The Original 1925 Edition"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1925. It follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923. He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "e;Absolution."e; Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim. He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a "e;consciously artistic achievement"e; and a "e;purely creative work - not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world."e; He added later, during editing, that he felt "e;an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had."e; The Great Gatsby takes place in 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. It is widely regarded as a "e;Great American Novel"e; and a literary classic, capturing the essence of an era. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: The Collected Stories of 1935 - 1940"e; contains 25 previously uncollected stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Content: Shaggy's Morning. The Intimate Strangers. The Passionate Eskimo. Zone of Accident. Fate in Her Hands. Too Cute for Words. Image on the Heart. Three Acts of Music. The Ants at Princeton. Inside the House. An Author's Mother. Afternoon of an Author. "e;I Didn't Get Over"e;. "e;Send Me In, Coach"e;. An Alcoholic Case. "e;Trouble"e;. The Honor of the Goon. The Long Way Out. The Guest in Room Nineteen. In the Holidays. Financing Finnegan. Design in Plaster. The Lost Decade. Strange Sanctuary. The End of Hate. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "e;Lost Generation,"e; Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Taps at Reveille - The Original 1935 Edition"e; contains 18 short stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Taps at Reveille is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. The eighteen stories collected in Taps at Reveille are: "e;The Scandal Detectives"e; "e;The Freshest Boy"e; "e;He Thinks He's Wonderful"e; "e;The Captured Shadow"e; "e;The Perfect Life"e; "e;First Blood"e; "e;A Nice Quiet Place"e; "e;A Woman with a Past"e; "e;Crazy Sunday"e; "e;Two Wrongs"e; "e;The Night of Chancellorsville"e; "e;The Last of the Belles"e; "e;Majesty"e; "e;Family in the Wind"e; "e;A Short Trip Home"e; "e;One Interne"e; "e;The Fiend"e; "e;Babylon Revisited"e; Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Posthumous Stories"e; contains 13 previously uncollected stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Content: On an Ocean Wave. The Woman from "e;21"e;. Three Hours Between Planes. The Broadcast We almost Heard last September. News of Paris-Fifteen Years Ago. Discard [Director's Special]. The World's Fair. Last Kiss. That Kind of Party. Dearly Beloved. Lo, the Poor Peacock! On Your Own. A Full Life. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Pat Hobby Stories"e; contains 17 short stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. Table of Contents: Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish. A Man in the Way. "e;Boil Some Water-Lots of It"e;. Teamed with Genius. Pat Hobby and Orson Welles. Pat Hobby's Secret. Pat Hobby, Putative Father. The Homes of the Stars. Pat Hobby Does His Bit. Pat Hobby's Preview. No Harm Trying. A Patriotic Short. On the Trail of Pat Hobby. Fun in an Artist's Studio. Two Old-Timers. Mightier Than the Sword. Pat Hobby's College Days. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Fitzgerald's Greatest Stories"e; contains 13 most notable short stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Content: "e;Bernice Bobs Her Hair"e; (1920) (in Flappers and Philosophers) "e;Head and Shoulders"e; (1920) (in Flappers and Philosophers) "e;The Ice Palace"e; (1920) (in Flappers and Philosophers and Babylon Revisited and Other Stories) "e;The Offshore Pirate"e; (1920) (in Flappers and Philosophers) "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e; (1921) (in Tales of the Jazz Age) "e;The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"e; (1922) (in Tales of the Jazz Age) "e;Winter Dreams"e; (1922) (in All the Sad Young Men) "e;The Baby Party"e; (1925) (in All the Sad Young Men) "e;The Freshest Boy"e; (1928) (in Taps at Reveille) "e;The Bridal Party"e; (1930) "e;A New Leaf"e; (1931) "e;Babylon Revisited"e; (1931) (in Babylon Revisited and Other Stories) "e;Crazy Sunday"e; (1932) (in Babylon Revisited and Other Stories) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Miscellaneous Writings"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Essays and Articles. Poems. Prose Parody and Humor. Reviews. Public Letters and Statements. Introductions and Blurbs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author well known for his short stories and novels. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers American soil has produced in the 20th century.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Parody and Humor Prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Little Minnie McCloskey. The Old Frontiersman. The Diary of A Sophomore. The Prince of Pests. Cedric the Stoker. This Is a Magazine. Reminiscenses of Donald Stewart. Some Stories They Like to Tell Again. The most Disgraceful Thing I ever Did. Salesmanship in the Champs-Elysees. The True Story of Appomattox. A Book of One's Own. The Pampered Men. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "e;Lost Generation,"e; Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Books of F. Scott Fitzgerald"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This eBook offers you the unique opportunity of exploring F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a manner never before possible in digital print. The edition includes every Fitzgerald story collection (published in his lifetime), short story, with poems and non-fiction. Novels: This Side of Paradise (New York: Charles Sons, 1920) The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Scribners, 1922) The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribners, 1925) Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribners, 1934) The Love of the Last Tycoon - originally The Last Tycoon - (New York: Scribners, unfinished, published posthumously, 1941) Short story collections: Flappers and Philosophers (New York: Scribners, 1921) Tales of the Jazz Age (New York: Scribners, 1922) All the Sad Young Men (New York: Scribners, 1926) Taps at Reveille (New York: Scribners, 1935) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "e;Lost Generation,"e; Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
A mesmerising and lavish story of Hollywood's Golden Age from the author of The Great Gatsby. 1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr... Stahr is at the centre of it all. A genius production chief in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cecilia is mesmerised. But Stahr's attentions are caught elsewhere - in the arms of a mysterious woman - and Cecilia watches as a passionate but doomed love affair unfolds. Little by little, Stahr loses his grasp on this fickle world. Fighting with his writers and declaring war on the Union bosses, he is saved from tragedy only by Fitzgerald's own death. Although THE LAST TYCOON will forever remain unfinished, it is a work of unrivalled potential, exposing a Hollywood we no longer know. One of stars in ascension, and the great picture men in free fall.
Inseparably associated with a point in history he claimed to despise, F. Scott Fitzgerald is both the quintessential Jazz-Age writer and perhaps the era's harshest critic.
Fitzgerald's jazz-age novel of squandered youth, destructive love and the glamour of 1920s New York. 'Here's to alcohol, the rose coloured glasses of life.' Anthony Patch has told his wealthy grandfather that he is writing a medieval history. But he isn't. Instead he's living a life of lazy decadence among the cafe society of early 1920s New York, oscillating between boredom and recklessness. When he meets Gloria, he finds a kindred spirit, and the young couple quickly fall in love. But together, they're more destructive than they were apart. Easily bored, they throw money into a glamorous and lavish lifestyle. One they can't sustain. And as they wait on Anthony's delayed inheritance, their heady world spins out of control. Because life is only a party for as long as you can afford it . . .
Fitzgerald's classic coming-of-age tale set against the turbulence of the early 20th century. 'I sure am up in the air. I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't' On the eve of a dance at the Greenwich County Club, Amory Blaine's life reaches its peak. He's at Princeton. He's handsome. He looks good in a dinner jacket. And, most importantly, a beautiful girl loves him. But then the night spirals quickly out of control. And as the years roll on, Amory is lost in a sea of change. After serving in France during the Second World War, he returns to America cynical and bored. Never quite able to fit in, he represents a generation of young people from the 1920s who have grown up to find all the wars are fought, all the gods are dead and all faith in man is shaken.
From the author of The Great Gatsby comes a beautiful tale of love, wealth and destruction - set to the backdrop of the 1920s French Riviera. 1925. In the summer heat of the French Riviera, 18-year-old movie-star Rosemary meets Dick Diver. And for a moment she lives in the bright-blue worlds of his eyes. But Dick is a married man. He and his glamorous wife Nicole are at the centre of a wealthy and glittering American crowd that laze the holiday season away on the dazzling beaches. Yet, as the drama of the summer unfolds, the idyllic world of the Divers starts to shatter. A dark secret lies at the heart of Nicole and Dick's marriage. Theirs is a complicated, corrupt love - destined to leave one of them utterly destroyed.
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, although no one knows where he or his money have come from. But Gatsby has a purpose: he is following a dream of love. Will his dream come true?
Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in love with Rosalind Connage, a beautiful debutante with aspirations of her own. At turns wildly optimistic and bitterly cynical, This Side of Paradise is the story of what happens to love when it becomes distorted by greed. Published in 1920, This Side of Paradise was F. Scott Fitzgeralds debut novel. Written following a bitter break-up with Zelda Sayre, This Side of Paradises acceptance for publication so impressed Sayre that she reconciled with Fitzgerald and the two married in 1920 shortly after the novels debut. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Jim Powell cant help but be defined as a jelly-beana man who spends his life in a state of idleness. Not particularly sociable and ill at ease around women, Jim decides to dedicate his life to his work. Yet, after returning from service in the First World War, Jim meets an old classmate by chance, and through him, may evolve into something more than just a jelly-bean.The Jelly-Bean references the locale and some of the characters that were featured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds earlier story, The Ice Palace.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's earliest short stories, "e;The Ice Palace"e; is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young Southern woman who is bored with her conventional life. She's engaged to Harry Bellamy, a young man from the North. Despite concern from her family and friends, Sally travels to Harry's hometown to meet his family. Hoping for an exciting adventure, she instead finds herself in a cold, unfamiliar place. There, in the dead of winter, she begins to question everything.Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.
Written in the same vein as "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"e; "e;The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"e; is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most imaginative shorter works. John T. Unger is a young southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply wealthy-they own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And they've gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret, which means that John could be in danger. But the family also has a daughter-the lovely Kismine-and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far.Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.
Als F. Scott Fitzgeralds famoser Roman "e;The Great Gatsby"e; 1925 erschien, erntete sein Autor von zahlreichen Schriftstellerkollegen hymnische Kritiken, doch erst die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bescherten seinem Meisterwerk die weltweite Anerkennung, die es verdient. Ergreifend und mit subtiler Finesse erzahlt Fitzgerald die Geschichte des schillernden Emporkommlings Jay Gatsby, der auf seinem Anwesen rauschende Feste feiert, um seine einst verlorene Liebe zuruckzugewinnen - eine Geschichte uber die Macht groer Gefuhle und das schmerzhafte Scheitern eines romantischen Traums. Diese Ausgabe prasentiert den grandiosen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur in neuer Ubersetzung.
Anson Hunter appears to lead a charmed lifehe comes from a good family, and through his connections secures a high-profile and extremely profitable job on Wall Street. He focuses all of his attention on perfecting his imagined lifestyle, intent on having the very best of anything and everything he desires. However, the futility of this quest is set in contrast with Ansons pursuit of his one-time fianc Paula, and the hollow relationships he forms with friends and lovers.The Rich Boy is written in a fashion similar to author F. Scott Fitgeralds The Great Gatsby, utilizing a third-person narrator outside the story, lending a stylistic distance to an already inaccessible wealthy protagonist. With The Rich Boy Fitzgerald again masterfully highlights the inherent emptiness that goes along with the luxurious lifestyle of wealthy elites in the 1920s.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
The Last Tycoon is a sophisticated, gripping tale of love and intrigue in the Golden Age of Hollywood, containing what many critics have claimed are Fitzgerald's most modern and engaging characters. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.' A survey recently named The Great Gatsby as one of the greatest fictional playboys of all time … click to find out more
The authentic edition from Fitzgeralds original publisher.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of `The Great Gatsby' and including `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with more fantastical visions of America, always imbuing his narratives with his trademark themes of money, class, ambition and love. In `May Day', Fitzgerald weaves an account of a raucous Yale alumni party, the participants of which are oblivious to the violent socialist demonstration being acted out around them. `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is an unorthodox account of a man who ages backwards, and `The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' tells the story of a young man who discovers that his friend's family possesses a diamond that is literally larger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. This 1922 collection confirmed Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation.
Fitzgerald's classic tale of jazz-era New York and the mysterious, party-throwing millionaire Jay Gatsby. It's 1922 and New York is electric. A hotbed of jazz, glamour and scandal. The playground of the super-rich. And the new home of Nick Carraway, a Mid-Western man chasing his American dream. For eighty dollars a month, Carraway finds himself the unlikely neighbour of his beautiful cousin Daisy Buchannan and a mysterious millionaire - Jay Gatsby. From the shadow of Gatsby's mansion, Carraway is drawn into the glittering, captivating world of the wealthy - their parties, their love affairs, and their lies. And as he watches his new friends, he writes their story. A tale of roaring excess, impossible love and the devastating, tragic consequences.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYER The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper `he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him? This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co. and Vintage Classics. It is based on designs in the Tiffany &Co. archives from the twenties when F. Scott Fitzgerald's talent, beauty and notorious lifestyle made him one of best known writers of the Jazz Age.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e; The Great Gatsby (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "e;The Great Gatsby"e; is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story takes place in 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. The book received critical acclaim and is generally considered Fitzgerald's best work. It is also widely regarded as a "e;Great American Novel"e; and a literary classic, capturing the essence of an era. The Modern Library named it the second best English language novel of the 20th century. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "e;roaring"e; 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers...
The Great Gatsby is the tale of Nick Carraway and his mysterious neighbour Jay Gatsby. Drawing Nick into the world of lavish parties that defined the roaring twenties, the charismatic millionaire Gatsby will stop at nothing and spare no expense to capture the heart of his beloved, Daisy, but in so doing sets in motion tragedy that will consume them all.A literary classic, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgeralds most famous novel and was names as the second best novel of the twentieth century by The Modern Library. The Great Gatsby has been adapted for film, television, and the stage.HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing and tragic consequences. 'Not only a page turner and heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written' Time F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.
The Beautiful and Damned is the story of socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch, heirs presumptive to a fortune and fixtures of 1920s New York Caf Society. Anthony and Glorias future is disrupted by Anthonys service in the army, her alcoholism, and the loss of their inheritance and subsequent legal suit to regain the wealth that they believe should be theirs. First published in 1922, The Beautiful and Damned was F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, and is widely believed to be based on his relationship and marriage to Zelda Sayre. The themes of the novel are heavily influenced by Fitzgeralds own opinions on the decadence and entitlement of the Jazz Age and the question of what someone does when he is required to do nothing. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
A collection of early short stories which helped make F. Scott Fitzgerald's name. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics editions...'F. Scott Fitzgerald has been long a favourite of mine. Since I discovered The Great Gatsby at university, I have been avidly reading all of his work. I am particularly fond of some of his short stories, from ‘The Rich Boy’ (in All the Sad Young Men) to ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (in Tales of the Jazz Age). I have poured all my passion and love for Fitzgerald’s work into these stylish editions, with front-cover illustrations by Art-Deco genius Georges Barbier, flaps, pictures and a wealth of extra material. These books are a publisher’s and a fan’s tribute to one of the greatest masters of world literature.'
A man, "e;born under unusual circumstances,"e; ages backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be.
"e;Tales of the Jazz Age"e; is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "e;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"e;. Several of the stories had also been published earlier, independently, in either The Metropolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Tribune, or Vanity Fair. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was released as a motion picture late in the 2008 season starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher. The screenplay differs greatly from the short story. Only the title, Benjamin's name, and most aspects of the aging process are retained in the screenplay.
The book's critical success was driven in part by the enthusiasm of reviewers. Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "e;it bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius. It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood."e; H. L. Mencken wrote that This Side of Paradise was the "e;best American novel that I have seen of late."e;One reader who was not entirely pleased, however, was John Grier Hibben, the President of Princeton University: "e;I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness."e;
When Benjamin Button was born he had the appearance of seventy-year-old man, and he was already able to speak. Stunned, his parents nevertheless try to raise him as they would any normal baby. By the time Benjamin is twelve, his parents realize their son is aging backwards, getting younger every day.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was adapted for film in 2008, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunts house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks shes putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesnt know how to act at parties, so with her cousins help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hairthe trademark of the liberated woman of the time. However, as Bernice descends deeper into her new lifestyle, the fickle nature of the social scene becomes increasingly evident.F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Bernice Bobs Her Hair based on letters he had sent to his younger sister providing similar advice on how to become a more attractive society girl. It was originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts, Percy boasts about his familys wealth, claiming that his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz Carlton Hotel. But Percys strange behaviour and outlandish claims are just the first in a mysterious chain of events, the start of which dates back all the way to the days of George Washington.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
As a young, wealthy, and good-looking man, Charlie fit right into the jazz-age scene. But when his easy life comes crashing down with the stock market in 1929, Charlie ends up losing his passionate young wife and his daughter, Honoria. As Charlie sets out to convince his in-laws to return his daughter to his care, he reminisces about the life he lived and the path that led to his current state.Babylon Revisited is a semi-autobiographical story based on the period in F. Scott Fitzgeralds life when his wife, Zelda, was committed to a sanitarium. During that time, Fitzgeralds sister-in-law, blaming him for her sisters state of mind, tried to adopt the couples daughter. The story was adapted into the 1954 movie The Last Time I Saw Paris starring Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
Sally Carrol is looking for a bigger life than the one she leads in her small-town home of Tarleton, Georgia. When she tells her friends about her engagement to a man from a Northern town, they are concerned that she is making a rash decision. But Sally claims to know what is best for her, and is intent on finding the quickest route to a more exciting life.Fitzgeralds later story, The Jelly-Bean, was intended as a loose follow up to The Ice Palace, and was set in the same fictional town and referenced some of the characters introduced in The Ice Palace.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. Toward the end of the novel, Fitzgerald references himself via a character who is a novelist by quoting this statement given after the novel: "e;You know these new novels make me tired. My God! Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read 'This Side of Paradise.' Are our girls really like that? If it's true to life, which I don't believe, the next generation is going to the dogs. I'm sick of all this shoddy realism."e;
From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age. From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald'
