F. Scott Fitzgerald
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›Das heimliche Meisterwerk Fitzgeralds.‹—›Die ZEIT‹ Der begabte amerikanische Psychiater Richard Diver, kurz Dick, lernt beim Besuch in einem Schweizer Sanatorium Nicole Warren, die psychisch kranke Tochter eines reichen Industriellen kennen und verliebt sich in sie. Dick heiratet Nicole, um ihr als Arzt und Ehemann beizustehen. Sie bekommen zwei Kinder und pflegen in den folgenden Jahren einen luxuriösen Lebensstil an der Cte d'Azur. Die...
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No writer portrayed Americas 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-fueled 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...
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Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the "calendar blues." But, as a friend advises, there isn't time to drift into romance, so she must instead "pick out the best thing in sight...and go after him hammer and tongs."
"Myra Meets His Family" is typical of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 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...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald vivió 44 años. Una vida de excesos, de subida a los cielos y descenso a los infiernos. Con tan solo 23 años se vuelve rico y famoso de la noche a la mañana, y tan adepto al despilfarro como a la belleza, tan adicto al alcohol como a la literatura.
Este libro de cartas, muchas de ellas inéditas en castellano, abarcan el período desde el momento en que se convierte en un escritor reconocido hasta sus últimos días en Hollywood,...
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Libro formado por nueve relatos de intenso trasfondo autobiográfico, inmediatamente posterior a "El gran Gatsby". Al mundo dinámico de los jóvenes emprendedores que forman la clase de los nuevos ricos se opone el pequeño mundo antiguo de las grandes fortunas, de costumbres arraigadas y decadentes, de prejuicios y frivolidad. En el inevitable choque entre la fascinación por el pedigrí social y el trabajo productivo aparecen estos jóvenes tristes,...
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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 family's wealth, claiming that his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz Carlton Hotel. But Percy's strange behaviour and outlandish claims are just the first in a mysterious chain of events, the start of which dates back...
47) Tender Is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation'
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Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer's fractured marriage.
Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age, this novel follows the Divers as a beautiful actress enters their lives and highlights the dark delicacy...
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F. Scott Fitzgeralds Meisterwerk von 1925 ist eine der großen Liebesgeschichten der Weltliteratur. Jay Gatsby, durch dubiose Geschäfte zum Millionär geworden, gibt in seiner Villa auf Long Island glanzvolle Partys für die New Yorker Gesellschaft. Er selber aber träumt davon, die Vergangenheit wiederzubeleben und seine große Liebe zurückzugewinnen. Doch die Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit endet tragisch.
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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 don't 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...
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"Head and Shoulders" is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarbox-the "head"-answers the door to Vaudeville star Marcia-the "shoulders." Marcia's 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 Fitzgerald's most...
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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...
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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...
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Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt's house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she's putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesn't know how to act at parties, so with her cousin's help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hair-the trademark of the "liberated"...
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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.
Fitzgerald's later story, "The Jelly-Bean," was intended as a loose follow up to "The Ice...
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"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Age" and chronicled its manners and morals. His lyrical, witty fables of society life reveal the disillusionment and cynicism behind the Roaring Twenties' glamorous façade.
Six of Fitzgerald's best-loved...
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Short Stories from the Jazz Age is a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best short stories, featuring his three masterful volumes: Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and All the Sad Young Men.
This collection provides an insightful overview of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most effective works of short prose and features famous tales, including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. The author, known...
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This 1922 short story, 'Winter Dreams', encapsulates the Jazz Age. With themes of unrequited love and self-made success, F. Scott Fitzgerald used this elegiac short story as the basis for his masterful novel The Great Gatsby (1925).
Dexter Green is the son of a middle-class grocery store owner. To earn money, he starts working as a golf caddie and it is on the golf course that he meets the beautiful socialite Judy Jones. Several years later, after...
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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-fueled 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...
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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:
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