F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 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 "Lost Generation," 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.
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
(from the back cover)
The Crack-Up
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Crack-Up" was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This vigorous and revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genious made him a living symbol and the Jazz Age. For those who grew up with "The Great Gatsby" or "Tender is the Night," this extraordinary autobiographical collection provides a unique personal blend of the romance and reality embodied by Fitzgerald's literature and his life.
Flappers and Philosophers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
By the Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" and author of The Great Gatsby (1925). His debut novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Flappers and Philosophers (1920) was his first collection of short stories. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), demonstrates an evolution and maturity in his writing, and provides an excellent portrait of America during the Jazz Age, as does Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
The Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas.
In 'The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction.
The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses.
Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks."
These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context.
Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.
This essential collection is a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche, and the New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Pocket Book's Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further read, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to be a society vampire, you see, she announced coolly, and went on to inform him that bobbed hair was the necessary prelude. She added that she wanted to ask his advice, because she had heard he was so critical about girls.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler's most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May Day," "The Jelly-Bean," and "The Offshore Pirate." Publisher's Note.
Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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"
"Oh Russet Witch!"
"The Lees of Happiness"
"Mr. Icky"
"Jemina"
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York and Paris, Fitzgerald brings the society of the "Lost Generation" to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers.
Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald
But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. This book includes Babylon Revisited, The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Lost Decade.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it’s a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald’s hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises.It’s the story of John T. Unger, 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 … meaning John could be in danger.But the family also has a daughter, lovely Kismine, and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far …
Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The Great Gatsby in 1925.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.
This collection includes 7 stories:
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse.
* Head and Shoulders
* The Cut-Glass Bowl: An ill-meant gift haunts a family's misfortunes.
* The Four Fists: A man's life shaped by a series of punches to his face.
* May Day
* 'O Russet Witch'
* Crazy Sunday
The Love of the Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, a character inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday.
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."
Великий Ґетсбі
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Френсіс Скотт Кей Фіцджеральд - видатний американський письменник, представник "втраченого покоління". "Великий Гетсбі" (1925) є найвідомішим романом Ф. С. Фіцджеральда і типовим твором "епохи джазу". Автор надзвичайно майстерно передав приховану за карнавальною яскравістю життя психологічну надломленість післявоєнного покоління. Це захоплююча й вишукана казка про Америку 20-х років минулого століття, в якій показано американську мрію, що обернулася трагедією.
The Jelly-Bean
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She stepped daintily out of the gasolene and began scraping her slippers, side and bottom, on the running-board of the automobile. The Jelly-bean contained himself no longer. He bent double with explosive laughter and after a second she joined in.
Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is the first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and sent the galleys to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This first version, Trimalchio, has never been published and has only been read by a handful of people. It is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest of the book was heavily revised. Characterization is different, the narrative voice of Nick Carraway is altered and, most importantly, the revelation of Jay Gatsby's past is handled in a wholly different way. James L.W. West III directs the Penn State Center for the History of the Book and is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is the author of William Styron: A Descriptive Biography (Random House, 1998).
The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel is now restored to the original 1941 text, with updates by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III.
When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, he left behind an unfinished draft of this poignant novel, inspired by his own experience working in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Literary critic Edmund Wilson edited Fitzgerald’s notes and material to publish this text of The Last Tycoon in 1941. Now, this edition restores Wilson’s editorial work and includes an introduction from celebrated author Haruki Murakami.
Set in Hollywood in the 1930s, The Last Tycoon tells the tragic story of a young film producer named Monroe Stahr. Exploring themes of ambition, power, and corruption, The Last Tycoon depicts Stahr’s struggle to balance his personal life and professional goals with the challenges of running a successful movie studio. Based on the career of real-life producer Irving Thalberg, the head of MGM who was known as Hollywood’s “boy wonder”, The Last Tycoon is a sharply observed and bittersweet exposé of the glittering excess of the Hollywood film industry in its prime.
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, the story of the love of these two glamorous and hugely talented writers can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds' marriage, the 333 letters - three-quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print - have been edited by noted Fitzgerald scholars, Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. They are illustrated throughout with a generous selection of familiar and unpublished photographs.
Der große Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York 1922. Auf seinem Anwesen in Long Island gibt Jay Gatsby sagenhafte Feste. Er hofft, mit seinem neuerworbenen Reichtum, mit Swing und Champagner seine verlorene Liebe zurückzugewinnen. Zu spät merkt er, dass er sich von einer romantischen Illusion hat verführen lassen ...
Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ein seltsames Baby ist zur Welt gekommen: kein süßer kleiner Fratz, der seine Eltern beglückt, sondern ein alter Mann mit Bart. Sein Name: Benjamin Button. Ein schweres Schicksal ist ihm vorherbestimmt: Er durchläuft das Leben rückwärts – und wird von Tag zu Tag jünger. Als Benjamin schließlich im Alter von fünfzig Jahren die zwanzig Jahre jüngere Hildegarde kennenlernt, steht für ihn, der sein Leben lang nie geliebt wurde, alles auf dem Spiel.
The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism.
Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out to her from across the water. Daisy, stuck in a loveless marriage, dreams of what could have been—and gets a taste for it after she is re-acquainted with Gatsby through Nick.
Considered by critics to be one of the greatest novels ever written, this 1925 masterpiece is a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that’s full of literary intrigue, resounding metaphors, and decadent glimpses into the glitz and glam of early twentieth-century America. As relevant today as ever, it offers a cautionary tale of the American Dream, warning against the temptation to believe that enough money paired with equal desire can achieve anything—even reverse the deepest regrets."
Partytime: Geschichten aus den Roaring Twenties
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An einer guten Party ist alles möglich: Tanz und Alkohol, Flirts und Schlägereien. Keiner wusste das besser als F. Scott Fitzgerald, der mit Zelda die Nächte durchfeierte und erst ging, wenn die Jazzmusiker ihre Instrumente einpackten und das Morgenlicht die Augen blendete. Das fröhliche Treiben mit seinen Untertönen – in diesen Storys ist es das Leben selbst.
El curioso caso de Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ice Palace
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moriría por ti y otros cuentos perdidos
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works
F. Scott Fitzgerald
O Estranho Caso de Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Na génese deste conto publicado pela primeira vez em 1922 terá estado, segundo F. Scott Fitzgerald, uma observação de Mark Twain em que o escritor lamentava que a melhor parte da vida fosse ao início e a pior no fim. Assim nasceu Benjamin Button, mas, como o leitor poderá começar a adivinhar, para grande desgosto e estupefacção de todos os envolvidos, o «pequeno» Benjamin vem ao mundo com a aparência, o tamanho e as peculiaridades de um homem de 70 anos…
100 Clásicos de la Literatura (Spanish Edition)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
El gran Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
La vida de Scott Fitzgerald, el autor de El gran Gatsby daría para una novela casi igual a las que escribió. Bohemio, exitoso, con una vida conyugal accidentada, Scott Fitzgerald supo plasmar en sus pocas obras a esos personajes cínicos y brutales que surgieron después de la primera guerra mundial.
El Gatsby de la novela (narrada en primera persona por uno de los personajes) es inmensamente exitoso pero también inmensamente enfermo por que a pesar de sus riquezas no se puede sobreponer a sus complejos y a su sentimiento de ser inadecuado.
Es una obra inolvidable, ejemplo de la producción de un autor malogrado porque nunca alcanzó en vida lo que aspiraba, exactamente igual que Gatsby.
Güzel ve Lanetli
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Güzel ve Lanetli ilk defa 1922 yılında yayımlanmış ve yazarını büyük Amerikan romancıları arasına taşımıştır. Bu kitabında Fitzgerald, Harvard mezunu, genç ve hevesli Anthony Patch ile onun güzel eşi Gloria’nın çalkantılı hikâyesini anlatıyor.
Aşıklar, Anthony’nin adını da aldığı büyükbabasından kalacak mirası beklerken Fitzgerald okuru 1910’ların Amerikası, yeni zenginler ve New York gece hayatının manzaraları arasında dolaştırıyor. Bir yandan da hayat, iş, evlilik, para, gençlik gibi daima güncel kalan mefhumları kendine has etkileyici üslubuyla işliyor. Bu son derece ironik hikaye baş döndürücü romantik başlangıcından alkolle beslenen sonuna kadar harcanan yeteneğin bir portresini çiziyor. Gem vurulmamış vahşi hırsların yıkıcı etkilerini ele alan, Fitzgerald’ın Cennetin Bu Yakası’ndan sonra yayımladığı Güzel ve Lanetli ilk kez dilimizde.
Gatsby le Magnifique
F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York, années folles… Dans sa somptueuse demeure de Long Island, Jay Gatsby organise de fastueuses réceptions où les invités se pressent en foule. Mais leur hôte ne cherche à éblouir qu’une seule personne : Daisy Buchanan. Elle est élégante, riche, séduisante, mais elle est la femme d’un héritier millionnaire… Avec ce texte devenu un classique, Fitzgerald, sur un air de jazz et une coupe de champagne à la main, met à nu le Rêve américain et écrit l’un des plus beaux romans du XXe siècle.
Il grande Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chi è il misterioso e ricchissimo vicino di casa di Nick Carraway, a West Egg? E perché passa tanto tempo a fissare quella piccola luce verde che brilla su uno dei moli dell'altra sponda della baia? Il filo conduttore del capolavoro di Francis Scott Fitzgerald è il sogno impossibile cullato da Jay Gatsby. L'ambizioso giovanotto, che ha saputo conquistarsi con tutti i mezzi, leciti e no, prestigio, ricchezza e rispettabilità, vuol far rivivere l'amore fiorito un tempo tra lui e Daisy che un giorno lo ha respinto, povero e senza prospettive, per sposare il rampollo di una delle grandi famiglie americane. Ma i sogni più sono belli e meno hanno la possibilità di avverarsi. E Jay Gatsby non solo non riuscirà a strappare Daisy a Buchanan, pur gettando sulla bilancia tutto il peso del suo fascino e del suo potere, ma finirà addirittura col cadere, vittima innocente, sotto i colpi di un marito tradito messo sulle sue tracce, per vendetta, dal perfido rivale. Al di là dei riferimenti autobiografici, "Il Grande Gatsby" è sopratutto il ritratto di un epoca in cui il mondo dei contrabbandieri di alcolici si mescolava allegramente con quello dei banchieri e delle 'flappers' dei "Roaring Twenties", in attesa che la Grande Crisi seppellisse tutto sotto le macerie dell'"American Dream".
O Grande Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nos tempos de Jay Gatsby, o jazz é a música do momento, a riqueza parece estar em toda parte, o gim é a bebida nacional (apesar da lei seca) e o sexo se torna uma obsessão americana. O protagonista deste romance é um generoso e misterioso anfitrião que abre a sua luxuosa mansão às festas mais extravagantes. O livro é narrado pelo aristocrata falido Nick Carraway, que vai para Nova York trabalhar como corretor de títulos. Passa a conviver com a prima, Daisy, por quem Gatsby é apaixonado, o marido dela, Tom Buchanan, e a golfista Jordan Baker, todos integrantes da aristocracia tradicional.
Na raiz do drama, como nos outros livros de Fitzgerald, está o dinheiro. Mas o romantismo obsessivo de Gatsby com relação a Daisy se contrapõe ao materialismo do sonho americano, traduzido exclusivamente em riqueza.
Aclamado pelos críticos desde a publicação, em 1925, O grande Gatsby é a obra-prima de Scott Fitzgerald, ícone da “geração perdida” e dos expatriados que foram para a Europa nos anos 1920.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
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