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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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"

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.

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.

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" 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.

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 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'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."

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 ...

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 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."

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.

The Ice Palace is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is set in the fictional town of Tarleton, Georgia, and follows the life of a young girl named Sally Carrol Happer. Sally is a beautiful and popular girl who is engaged to a local man named Harry Bellamy. However, Sally feels restless and longs for adventure and excitement.One day, Sally meets a young man named Jack Frost. Jack is from the North and is in Tarleton to visit his uncle. Sally is immediately drawn to Jack's mysterious and adventurous nature, and the two quickly become friends. Jack takes Sally on a wild ride through the countryside, and they end up at an abandoned ice palace.The ice palace is a beautiful and magical place, but Sally becomes frightened and wants to leave. Jack convinces her to stay, and they spend the night together in the palace. The next morning, Sally returns home and realizes that she has fallen in love with Jack.The Ice Palace is a story about the search for adventure and excitement, and the consequences that come with it. It is a tale of youthful passion and the desire to break free from the constraints of society. Fitzgerald's writing is poetic and evocative, and the story is a haunting and beautiful exploration of the human heart.She rose at six and sliding uncomfortably into her clothes stumbled up to the diner for a cup of coffee. The snow had filtered into the vestibules and covered the floor with a slippery coating. It was intriguing, this cold, it crept in everywhere. Her breath was quite visible and she blew into the air with a nave enjoyment. Seated in the diner she stared out the window at white hills and valleys and scattered pines whose every branch was a green platter for a cold feast of snow.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Empresarios atrapados en un psiquiátrico por error; guionistas reconvertidos en vagabundos para encontrar la inspiración perdida; soldados capturados y colgados por los pulgares; seductores legendarios por quienes se suicidan todas las mujeres; pero también herederas tan ricas como torpes a las que resulta imposible encontrar marido; jóvenes cuya hermosura no para de acarrearles problemas; adolescentes que descubren la gran ciudad por primera vez, y un buen número de chicos que conocen a chicas y viceversa: sobre estos y otros personajes escribía, entre 1920 y su muerte en 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald en el puñado de relatos que se reúnen por primera vez en Moriría por ti y otros cuentos perdidos. Textos recientemente descubiertos y también textos repetidamente descartados por editores que no reconocían en ellos la marca registrada de uno de sus autores más identificables, aquí embarcado en la exploración de nuevos tonos y temas, en más de una ocasión moldeados sobre materiales autobiográficos: lo son los que inspiran «Pesadilla», «Qué hacer» o «Ciclón en la tierra muda», cuentos respectivamente ambiguos, excéntricos y cómicos sobre hospitales psiquiátricos como los que albergaron a la esposa de Fitzgerald, Zelda; lo es la anécdota de partida de la cruda pareja «Pulgares arriba» y «Cita con el dentista», extraída de la historia oral familiar; y lo son, desde luego, las múltiples referencias cinematográficas que permean estos cuentos, que incluyen tres esbozos en los que el Fitzgerald guionista trabaja a caballo entre el slapstick, la screwball comedy y el melodrama familiar. Textos que abrazan la sátira, el humor físico y otras múltiples formas de la comicidad junto a textos que al estilo chispeante y agilísimo de Fitzgerald, a su ingenioso despliegue de réplicas y contrarréplicas y a la ligereza luminosa y elegante, la desafiante libertad, que envuelve sus personajes y escenarios, añaden notas de oscuridad imprevista y osada: la de la locura, la de la guerra y la del suicidio; la del alcohol, la enfermedad y el desamor. Textos, en fin, en ocasiones muy caros a su autor, que se abstuvo de limar sus aristas más incómodas para que encajaran en el retrato oficial de Fitzgerald, incluso a costa del injustificado destierro al que se vieron sometidos, y del que ahora los rescata este volumen primorosamente anotado y presentado por Anne Margaret Daniel, capaz de dialogar con toda la obra de Fitzgerald al tiempo que la resignifica y expande.

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…

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El retrato de Dorian Gray por Oscar WildeMujercitas por Louisa May AlcottHombrecitos por Louisa May AlcottOrgullo y Prejuicio por Jane AustenPeter Pan por J.M. BarrieTrilogía de Caspak 1. La Tierra Olvidada por el Tiempo por Edgar Rice BurroughsTrilogía de Caspak 2. Los Pueblos que el Tiempo Olvidó por Edgar Rice BurroughsTrilogía de Caspak 3. Desde el Abismo del Tiempo por Edgar Rice BurroughsDesde mi celda por Gustavo Adolfo BécquerLa Historia de Tristán e Isolda por Joseph BédierFuente Ovejuna por Félix Lope de Vega y CarpioEl Perro del Hortelano por Félix Lope de Vega y CarpioEl Hombre que Fue Jueves por G. K. ChestertonLa Ley y la Dama por Wilkie CollinsEspaña Contemporánea por Rubén DaríoCrimen y Castigo por Fedor Mikhaïlovitch DostoïevskiEl Sabueso de los Baskerville por Arthur Conan DoyleLas Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes por Arthur Conan DoyleVeinte Años Después por Alexandre DumasAgua de nieve por Concha EspinaEl Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button por Francis Scott FitzgeraldEl Profeta por Kahlil GibranAntología Poética por Miguel HernándezLa Odisea por HomeroLos Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis I por Vicente Blasco IbáñezLos Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis II por Vicente Blasco IbáñezTres Hombres en una Barca por Jerome K. JeromeLa Metamorfosis por Franz KafkaCartas a Milena por Franz KafkaIdeario Español por Mariano José de LarraEl Casarse Pronto y Mal por Mariano José de LarraLa Quimera del Oro por Jack LondonRomancero Gitano por Federico García LorcaEl Rey Arturo y los Caballeros de la Mesa Redonda por Thomas MaloryLo Que el Viento se Llevó por Margaret MitchellEl Avaro por MolièreLolita por Vladimir NabokovLa República por PlatónLa Caída de la Casa de Usher por Edgar Allan PoeLa Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne BrontëLas Aventuras de Pinocho por C. CollodiEl Último Mohicano por James Fenimore CooperNoches Blancas por Fedor Mikhaïlovitch DostoïevskiEstudio en Escarlata por Arthur Conan DoyleEl Signo de los Cuatro por Arthur Conan DoyleLos Tres Mosqueteros por Alexandre DumasCanción del Pirata por José de EsproncedaMadame Bovary I por Gustave FlaubertPsicología de las Masas y Análisis del Yo por Sigmund FreudBailén por Benito Pérez Galdós<

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 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Often described as the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In the Long Island village of West Egg, the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby pursues the now-married Daisy Buchanan, whom he last saw five years ago, before amassing his fortune. Along with the eleven short stories from Fitzgerald’s collection Tales of the Jazz Age—including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”—this handsome Word Cloud edition makes a fine addition to anyone’s bookshelf.

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 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 nineteen 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 protray, the twenty-one works collected in this volume capture the precarious splendor and doomed glory of that opulent era that their author called the Jazz Age. This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald ha condensato come in uno straziante testamento in questo libro che conosce molte versioni, ma non quella definitiva, la cronaca del naufragio di una generazione, la storia di un amore esigente e crudele vissuto, anzi patito, come un peccato capitale, la denuncia della seduzione del denaro e la confessione dell'inevitabile sconfitta della sensibilità.

Una coppia inquieta nei ruggenti anni Dieci: lei, Gloria Gilbert, bellissima rubacuori venuta dal Kansas nella Grande Mela; lui, Anthony Patch, ricco ereditiero che a venticinque anni si sente già stanco della vita. Sono giovani, belli e innocenti, ma l'alcol e l'avidità finiranno per dannarli. I personaggi di Belli e dannati, debitori alla vicenda e alla personalità dell'autore ma non rigidamente autobiografici, sono parenti stretti dei protagonisti di altri scritti di Fitzgerald. Una nota di pessimismo distingue però questo romanzo in cui lo scrittore rappresenta una velleitaristica rivolta della gioventù contro le convenzioni vittoriane all'interno di una visione del mondo assolutamente priva di significato: quasi un'epica disincantata e dolceamara sulla caduta dei sogni e delle illusioni. Il testo è qui presentato nella traduzione di Fernanda Pivano.

«Recuerdo a Scott Fitzgerald diciéndome no mucho después de que termináramos la universidad: #Quiero ser uno de los más grandes escritores de todos los tiempos, ¿tú no?» Edmund Wilson Este libro constituye la quintaesencia del mundo narrativo de Scott Fitzgerald. En estos relatos se abordan sus obsesiones recurrentes: la melancolía por el final de una época, los claroscuros de la pareja, el fracaso o la fascinación por el lujo y la riqueza. En el cuento del título, un hombre nace viejo y rejuvenece a medida que pasan los años, adquiriendo una perspectiva del mundo insólita e inquietante. Otras historias hablan de personas que recuerdan sin tregua el momento en que perdieron su oportunidad, como en el extraordinario «Regreso a Babilonia». En «La tarde de un autor» acompañamos a un escritor en su paseo otoñal, varado en la sequía creativa. En definitiva, cada pieza es un vislumbre del seductor e imperecedero mundo narrativo de Scott Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) es uno de los más destacados representantes de la Generación Perdida, y uno de los autores grandes de la literatura en inglés del siglo XX. Su figura se ha convertido en un icono tanto por su atribulada vida como por su excelente legado literario. Traducción de Carlos Milla Soler

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. (from the back cover)