F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel features Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the Midwest who attends Princeton University to acquire a refined sense of the proper "social" values. Lacking all sense of purpose, he interests himself primarily in literary cults, vaguely "liberal" student activities, and a series of flirtations with some rather predatory young ladies.
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In 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-five and heralded as the most promising writer of his generation, owing to the success of his first novel This Side of Paradise. Recently married to the girl of his dreams, the former Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald built upon his sudden prosperity with The Beautiful and the Damned, a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent set amid the glitter of Jazz Age New York. The novel chronicles the relationship...
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" 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 At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep...
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Jim Powell can't help but be defined as a "jelly-bean"-a 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...
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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,...
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All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald was disillusioned and having money problems when wrote the stories. He believed his wife Zelda was seeing another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure. Expecting more failure Fitzgerald was surprised by its critical acclaim. The New York Times said of it, "The publication of...
10) The Camel's Back
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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.
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A este lado del paraíso, novela debutante del autor, es una obra que narra la búsqueda de identidad del joven Amory Blaine. Con sus aspiraciones intelectuales y artísticas, Amory debe ir descubriendo el tipo de hombre en el que se quiere convertir, enfrentándose a desafíos amorosos, sociales y existenciales en una América que se encuentra a principios del siglo XX. Perteneciente a la Generación Perdida, Fitzgerald capta la esencia, reflejando...
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Duke Classics
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Recently the basis for a major motion picture starring Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentieth-century American fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of such era-defining masterworks as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. The tale follows the travails and triumphs of the title character, who is born in the body of an elderly man and becomes
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned" delves into the tumultuous relationship of Anthony Patch, a charming but indolent heir, and his stunning, self-absorbed wife, Gloria Gilbert. Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, their lives epitomize the excess and disillusionment of the Jazz Age. As they await Anthony's inheritance, the couple indulges in a life of luxury, pleasure, and social climbing, only to find their dreams unraveling....
15) The great Gatsby
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"Gatsby emerges as if from nowhere, evading questions about his past and throwing dazzling parties sparkling with champagne and jazz at his luxurious Long Island mansion. Nick Carraway, a young man who has moved in next door, is fascinated by his oddly detached neighbor, and by his discovery that Gatsby is motivated by a single-minded quest to regain his long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing about the intensity...
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Candlewick Press
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2021
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The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
17) The Four Fists
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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.
18) Der große Gatsby
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„The Great Gatsby" von F. Scott Fitzgerald gilt als schillerndes Juwel der amerikanischen Literatur und fängt die Dekadenz und Desillusionierung der Goldenen Zwanziger mit unvergleichlicher Eleganz ein. Vor der glitzernden Kulisse von Long Island, New York, erzählt Fitzgeralds Roman eine Geschichte von unerwiderter Liebe, zerplatzten Träumen und der Suche nach dem schwer fassbaren amerikanischen Traum.
Die Geschichte wird von Nick Carraway...