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Mladý milionář Jay Gatsby pořádá na vrcholu jazzového věku ve dvacátých letech dvacátého století ve svém sídle na Long Islandu nákladné večírky, ale jeho pravá osobnost zůstává tajemstvím dokonce i pro jeho souseda Nicka Carrawaye. Gatsbyho minulost - se postupně odkrývá v barevné komiksové adaptaci klasického románu F. Scotta Fitzgeralda a čtenáře vtahuje příběh plný univerzálních témat, jako je vášeň, třídní boj a snaha o dosažení amerického snu.

Sbírka próz představitele "ztracené generace" zachycuje životní osudy Američanů, jejichž lidské hodnoty byly otřeseny první světovou válkou a kteří hledali nové jistoty v bohatství let poválečné konjunktury. Obsahuje román Velký Gatsby, tragickou historii gangstera, a autorův nedokončenýromán Poslední magnát z hollywoodského prostředí filmových tvůrců. Do tohoto rámce zařadili editoři šestnáct autorových povídek, vážných, humorných, psychologických i s fantastickou tematikou.

2 povídky: Podivuhodný příběh Benjamina Buttona, Flákač. Dvojjazyčná kniha pro výuku angličtiny pro pokročilé. Dvě povídky s vysvětlením gramatiky.

Anglickočeská zrcadlová četba pro středně pokročilé. Velký Gatsby je nejslavnějším románem Francise Scotta Fitzgeralda. Příběh se odehrává v New Yorku 20. let minulého století, kdy nečekaná hospodářská prosperita přinesla i ztrátu morálních hodnot. Jay Gatsby se ve snaze získat milovanou dívku dostane do nejvyšších vrstev společnosti, kde je…

Chtěli byste zestárnout do podoby dítěte? Nebo vlastnit diamant velký jako Ritz? A co takhle prožít celý život jako lenivý aristokratický švihák? Co není možné v realitě, lze zakusit v Žabcích a filozofech. Nechte se omámit fantastickými zápletkami, jazzovými rytmy a atmosférou záhadných jižanských sídel. Humorné, groteskní i melancholické zážitky zaručeny! Smysl pro humor nutný! Pokud se při čtení ani jednou nezasmějete, vrátíme Vám peníze a Vy se budete moci jít léčit!

Soubor esejů a literárních poznámek, vydaný posmrtně v roce 1945. V ostatních autobiograficky laděných esejích se zamýšlí nad svou válkou poznamenanou generací a srovnává ji s generací otců. Druhá, obsáhlejší část knihy, je věnována zápiskům a poznámkám, které Fitzgeraldovi sloužily jako zásobník nápadů pro další tvorbu. Sbírka autobiografických esejů a literárních zápisků je mučivým svědectvím o duševním i fyzickém rozkladu autora. Zápisky jsou fascinujícím nahlédnutím do autorské dílny velkého spisovatele.

Výbor z časopiseckých povídek, sestavených do chronologického cyklu od let jinošských, dospívání a prvních lásek k velké životní lásce a manželství, je zároveň zrcadlem osudů autorových. Obsah: Lovci průšvihů; Večer na výstavišti; Náfuka; Myslí si, že je báječný; Polapený Stín; Stadión; První člověk; Berenika stříhá vlasy; Ledový palác; Ta poslední kráska Jihu; Kdo nešetří, ten má za tři; Hotelové dítě; Plavci; Jákobův žebřík; Magnetismus; Dětské odpoledne; Kde dělají domky pro panenky; Bouřlivá plavba; Nový život; Rodina ve vichřici; Ztracené desetiletí; Obchodník Finnegan; Pár cvoků; Takový pěkný pár. Vybral a uspořádal: Lubomír Dorůžka

Bilingvní vydání tří skvělých povídek známého amerického spisovatele, představitele "ztracené generace" a jazzového věku, které s humornou nadsázkou vyprávějí příběhy o bohatství a moci.

Velký Gatsby (1925), vrcholné dílo z dob největšího flámu v dějinách USA, který Francis Scott Fitzgerald označil za „jazzový věk“ a sám do něj vydatně přispěl mnoha soukromými improvizacemi a pocity „ztracené generace“, přináší milostný příběh z lepší společnosti. SelfmademanJay Gatz řečený Velký Gatsby i krasavice Daisy Buchananová však v éře prohibice do těchto sfér pronikli každý po svém a podobně se vyrovnávají i s novým životním stylem a břemenem americké „nevinnosti“. Nesoulad v jejich představách je leitmotivem románu, jenž přezkoumává romantický ideál mámivého „zeleného světla“ oné „budoucnosti, jež před námi rok od roku ustupuje“ a posléze ho nemilosrdně obětuje na oltář mýtu o věčné lásce. Fitzgeraldovo působivé zpracování meziválečné podoby amerického snu je v této edici doplněno nedokončeným románem Poslední magnát (1941), ve kterém se téma hledání, úpadku a pádu rozvíjí v atraktivních kulisách hollywoodských filmových ateliérů.

Bilingvilní vydání prózy známého autora pro pokročilé zájemce o angličtinu.

Spisovatel napsal za svého života na 160 povídek - Bláznivá neděle kombinuje klíčové práce s texty překládanými do češtiny vůbec poprvé. Fitzgerald se v nich znovu pokouší zachytit dobovou atmosféru, odbourává předsudky americké společnosti a zachycuje hollywoodské prostředí, které tak dobře znal a ve kterém se na sklonku svého života pohyboval. Svazek, jehož editorem je známý překladatel a hudební publicista Lubomír Dorůžka, jistě potěší všechny čtenáře, kteří si věhlasného autora oblíbili.

Milionářská dcera Nicole, ne zcela vyléčená z těžké duševní nemoci a hluboce závislá na svém muži-psychiatrovi. Dick, úspěšný lékař, spolumajitel sanatoria pro duševně choré, vděčící však za financování závratné kariéry tučnému kontu své ženy. A do vzájemného vztahu těchto amerických manželů, žijících uprostřed hojnosti na francouzské Riviéře, vstoupí jednoho dne mladičká nadějná herečka Rosemary. Půdorys psychologického románu, který vyšel poprvé roku 1934, skrývá fascinující pohled na život boháčů, kteří si mohou dovolit vše, nač jen pomyslí. Konzumní způsob života autora vždycky fascinoval a uchvacoval, ale dokázal ho podrobit bystré, nemilosrdné kritice, jež je pro jeho psaní charakteristická. Dvojí tvář hlavních hrdinů, působících jako párek spokojených manželů, otvírá další témata, především přetvářku a snobismus. Předností románu je dynamický děj a výborná charakteristika postav. Můžeme na něj nahlížet jako na sociálně kritický dokument 30. a 40. let, zároveň je nutné říci, že román Něžná je noc se stal klasickým a oblíbeným dílem světové literatury 20. století. Edice: Vlasta - knihovna moderní ženy

Sbírka Povídky jazzového věku obsahuje jedenáct fantaskních a parodických povídek, arabesek, črt a jednoaktovek, včetně proslaveného "Podivuhodného případu Benjamina Buttona", a představuje první souborné a úplné vydání Fitzgeraldovy druhé povídkové sbírky (Tales of the Jazz Age) z roku 1922. Pět povídek vychází v českém překladu vůbec poprvé.

Poslední polibek je výborem 3 povídek Francise Scotta Fitzgeralda: Ach, rusovlasá kouzelnice (Oh Russet Witch), To nejrozumnější (The Sensible Thing) a Poslední polibek (Last Kiss). Společným tématem všech tří povídek je Žena. Píšeme záměrně Žena, neboť to je opravdu ona krásná, osudová a vždy nějakým způsobem nedosažitelná. Fitzgerald, který je znám spíše jako autor románů, zde však dokazuje, že je mistrem i v rozsahem omezeném žánru povídky. Dokáže vykreslit přesvědčující obraz postav na několika stránkách a vybírá si situace a otázky, které stály v popředí zájmu jeho čtenářů a souzněly i s jeho vlastními osudy.

Unikátní soubor posledních dosud nevydaných povídek od klasika moderní americké literatury. Dosud nevydané povídky, ztracené ve víru času, ve stozích pozůstalosti či v šuplících soudobých časopiseckých redaktorů, kteří nedocenili jejich kvality. Přední autor jazzového věku a otec ztracené generace se v nich představuje jako bravurní vypravěč a stylista. Texty pokrývají období od dvacátých let až do konce Fitzgeraldovy spisovatelské dráhy a vytvářejí pestrý, dynamický obraz amerických dějin nepokřivený opatrnými editory.

Soubor povídek slavného amerického autora s výraznými autobiografickými rysy. Výbor začíná cyklem povídek o mladíkovi jménem Basil Duke Lee, který je vlastně ztělesněním Fitzgeraldova dětství. I on pochází z méně majetných poměrů, což si bolestně uvědomuje hlavně ve škole, a navzdory jeho silné vůli se mu dlouho nedaří prorazit. Dvojjazyčné vydání, souběžný český text.

Autobiografický román líčí studentská léta autora na Princetonské universitě před 1. světovou válkou.

Slavná povídka z Fitzgeraldovy knihy Příběhy jazzového věku. Dva vojáci, kteří se právě vrátili z bojiště první světové války, se omylem dostanou na studentský ples v New Yorku, kde vnesou nečekaný rozruch do milostných vztahů. Počáteční úspěchy zmaří vojákům přílišná konzumace alkoholu. Dvojjazyčné, anglicko-české vydání s jazykovým a gramatickým komentářem pod čarou. Pro středně pokročilé.

Podivuhodný případ Benjamina Buttona je název povídky, podle které byl natočen stejnojmenný film režiséra Davida Finchera, v hlavních rolích s Bradem Pittem a Cate Blanchetovou. Autor rozehrává groteskní příběh muže, jenž se narodí jako stařec a celý život mládne. Na všech stranách se setkává s nepochopením a šťastný je pouze uprostřed svého života, kdy se jeho biologický a duševní věk protínají. Dvojjazyčné, česko-anglické vydání.

Kniha zachycuje život předprvoválečných amerických zbohatlíků – jejich pozvolný rozpad alkoholem, zahálkou a sebezahleděním ústící v konečné vystřízlivění z opojení "americkým snem". Anthony Patch, Maury Noble a Dick Caramel jsou typickými zástupci těchto zbohatlíků. Vystudovali prestižní americké univerzity a díky svým rodičům mají solidní finanční zázemí. Proto se nijak nehrnou do práce, chtějí si hlavně užívat mládí a peněz, které oni sami nemusí vydělávat a veškerý svůj čas utápí v alkoholu a snobských, rádoby intelektuálních dialozích.

Příběh unikající lásky a oslnivých ambicí stoupá k vypjatě dramatickým výšinám a propadá se do hloubek až k základům lidské existence. Rozechvělá naděje a černé zoufalství přesouvají v překvapivých momentech úhel vyprávění a vyostřují kontrasty mezi postavami. Osoba empatického, mimořádně schopného filmového producenta řídícího svoje studio jako továrnu na sny, který ovšem tuší blížící se tragédii, ale skrývá svoje obavy, se na nejpůsobivějších místech snad až vzpírá autorovým záměrům. V těchto okamžicích se jeho hrdinové propadají do nejistot a zmatků, aby pak v nich vášnivě setrvávali. Kniha je plná života a nám tolik blízká možná i proto, že ji autor nestačil formálně dokončit. Román vydáváme v novém překladu, který vychází vstříc uhrančivé, obtížně definovatelné kráse Fitzgeraldova jazyka.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, vrstevník a přítel Ernesta Hemingwaye, jeden z řady autorů nazývaných "ztracená generace", dosáhl vrcholu své slávy ve dvacátých letech. Napsal za svůj čtyřiačtyřicetiletý život pět románů a asi sto šedesát povídek, z nichž poslední jsou Příběhy Pata Hobbyho. Vytvořil je na samém sklonku svého bouřlivě prožitého života za pobytu v Hollywoodu, kde po řadu let pracoval pro filmové společnosti. Příběhy byly uveřejňovány časopisecky, k soubornému vydání došlo až po autorově smrti.

How rich is it possible to be? John Unger's friend, Percy, claims his family is the richest in the world, boasting a private diamond mine. When John visits, he experiences a level of luxury he never imagined. However, he soon learns that immense wealth comes with a dark side. In other stories, a man attempts to escape his past to reclaim his daughter, only to be thwarted by old drinking companions. Meanwhile, a girl teaching her cousin how to attract boys finds herself betrayed when her pupil steals her boyfriend, prompting her to seek revenge. Through these narratives, F. Scott Fitzgerald emerges as a keen and witty observer of his era's social dynamics. The New Oxford Progressive English Readers present a curated selection of classic novels and plays at six levels, featuring abridged versions of beloved stories for young readers. These readers include adaptations from renowned authors, a diverse range of titles for broad reading experiences, engaging illustrations, and supplementary materials such as questions, activities, cultural context, character profiles, and author biographies. Additionally, each book provides a template for writing book reports and a comprehensive list of available titles and teaching resources.

Mnozí z nás vzpomínají na některé z velkolepých filmových zpracování Fitzgeraldova úspěšného románu. Na okázalých večírcích se opět ponořte do rytmu jazzového věku a nahlédněte do života high society. Všechny texty jsou v angličtině. Nemusíte se však obávat, že byste textu neporozuměli. Je napsaný zjednodušenou angličtinou tak, aby vyhovoval potřebám čtenáře byť jen mírně pokročilého. Na každé stránce naleznete český zrcadlový překlad a na webu si můžete stáhnout nahrávku namluvenou rodilými mluvčími.

This deluxe box-set features a curated collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's selected novels, novellas, and short stories. Presented in five elegantly clothbound volumes with foil stamping, it showcases the author's literary brilliance and iconic style, making it a perfect addition for both new readers and long-time fans of Fitzgerald's work.

Compiled for collectors, book dealers and all who love books, this indispensable volume provides a guide to the value of over 33,000 sought-after books. It includes classic authors from Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, detective writers from Eric Ambler to Minette Walters, illustrators from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton, and poets from Richard Aldington to Walt Whitman. More than 600 authors and artists are represented, in British and American first editions, limited editions, and important, collectable reprints. As featured on Front Row, Radio 4, and recommended by BBC Homes and Antiques magazine. The tantalizing game of wondering how much your first editions are worth may be continued, with the publication of the Guide to First Edition Prices - Times Literary Supplement.

Three of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novels of the Jazz Age in one volume. F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories are emblematic of the Lost Generation, which came of age in the years following World War I. Along with The Great Gatsby-- Fitzgerald's most well-known novel--this luxurious leather-bound volume also includes his earlier works, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. Each novel presents the aura of the Jazz Age in a different context, painting a wide-ranging picture of the uncertainty and upheaval faced by Americans at the time. This classic collection also includes a scholarly introduction about Fitzgerald's life and work, offering insights into his creative genius.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, celebrated for his penetrating and moving depiction of the American Jazz Age. This beautiful hardback collection brings together some of Fitzgerald's finest and most iconic novels, novellas and short stories, presented in a beautiful hardback treasury.Includes:• The Great Gatsby• This Side of Paradise• The Beautiful and Damned• Flappers and Philosophers• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Other Tales of the Jazz Age

'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on the butterfly's wings' - ERNEST HEMINGWAY Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and 'The Lost Decade', written in Fitzgerald's last years. Concerned with the dreams of youth, the power of money and the ravages of success, these are all unforgettable stories that defined a generation.

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How to live on $36,000 a year=Vivre avec trente-six mille dollars par an How to live on pratically nothing a year=Vivre avec presque rien Afternoon of an author=L'après-midi d'un écrivain The crack-up=La fêlure.

If the 'Roaring Twenties' are remembered as the era of 'flaming youth', it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It 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. This volume has an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, this book offers hours of pleasure to readers young and old and is an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

Lata dwudzieste XX wieku to jeden z najbarwniejszych okresów StanówZjednoczonych Ameryki. Jazz, rozluźnienie moralnych więzów, prohibicja, blichtr życia socjety… W tym świecie żyje też Gatsby, elegancki, intrygujący i bogatymężczyzna. Powoli odkrywamy jego tajemniczą przeszłość i obserwujemy pierwsze - od pięciu lat - spotkanie z Daisy, dawną ukochaną. Francis Scott Fitzgerald mistrzowsko przedstawia realia swojej epoki i odpowiada na pytania nie tylko o trwałość uczucia, ale także o możliwość awansu społecznego. Kolejne ekranizacje dowodzą, że świat śmietanki towarzyskiej tamtych lat, niezmiennie nęci. Samemu Fitzgeraldowi również nieobce były związki, wokół których stale narastały kontrowersje. Jeden z nich tworzył z żoną Zeldą, której zadedykował „Wielkiego Gatsby’ego”. Ostatnie zdanie powieści wygrawerowane zostało na jej nagrobku.

Historical information and entertaining illustrations of the vagaries of the American language supplement this detailed etymology of words and phrases native to the United States

Bernice Bobs Her Hair Winter dreamsThe sensible thingAbsolutionThe baby partyA short trip homeMagnetismThe rough crossing.

An all-new faithful and beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. Adapted by Ted Adams (The Island of Doctor Moreau) and illustrated by Jorge Coelho (Loki, Rocket Raccoon). Whether you already love the book or are experiencing it for the first time, we've got you covered. It's all here, the roaring '20s in all its glory --the decadent parties, the gangsters, the car crashes, the love triangle, and so much more. Young and old can appreciate the dedication of veteran comic creators, Adams and Coelho, as they adapt this American classic story into the classic American art form of comics. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Featuring stunning full-color illustrations by Ludovic Salle, this hardback edition of a classic novel enhances the reading experience for both newcomers and longtime fans. It offers an unabridged version, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the timeless themes and characters of the story while enjoying a fresh visual perspective. Perfect for enthusiasts of classic literature, this edition invites a deeper appreciation of the narrative's beauty and complexity.

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 Crack-up" "Autobiographical pieces" "Gretchen' s forty winks" "The last of the belles" "Babylon revisited" "Pat Hobby himself" "Financing Finnegan"

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.

Four stories about people reacting to a variety of situations.

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.

Spanning over 30 years, these letters chronicle Fitzgerald's artistic and emotional development through his own words. What emerges is a picture of the familiar Fitzgerald but also of the writer expressing deep concerns about his art and the man whose relationships with family and friends were often fraught with conflict and insecurity.

Published in 1926, this collection showcases Fitzgerald's signature style and explores themes of wealth, love, and the American Dream, reflecting the societal changes of the Jazz Age. The stories reveal his keen insight into human nature and the complexities of relationships, making it a compelling read for fans of his work and those interested in early 20th-century literature.

Percy's Vater, so sagt es jedenfalls Percy, ist der reichste Mann der Welt. Percy selbst hat früher statt Briefmarken Diamanten gesammelt, und sein Vater besitzt einen Diamanten - so groß wie das Ritz!

In this later selection of short stories and autobiographical pieces, Scott Fitzgerald traces a path through the wild surface-patterns of glitter and excess to look again at the ways in which he and his fellow Americans had been affected by "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history".

The Great Gatsby has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and its influence on later writers from J.D. Salinger to John OHara cannot be overestimated. Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from Kentucky who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy and Tom play out the drama in a small Long Island town, Fitzgerald makes it clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work.

Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age. 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.

In Tender Is The Night , 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.

Set in the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, postwar America, this collection of short stories and novellas shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention.

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.

In 'The Popular Girl' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, readers explore the life of a young socialite in the 1920s Jazz Age. The novel delves into themes of love, ambition, and disillusionment amidst wealth and societal expectations. Fitzgerald's lyrical prose captures the complexities of the American Dream and the transient nature of fame.

A carefully graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories continue to grow and there are now over 170 titles in the series. Most titles are available with Audio CDs and most include accompanying exercises and glossaries.

"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.

Nicki Greenberg's graphic adaptation of The Great Gatsby brings to life the grand and crumpled dreams of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unforgettable characters. In the exquisitely realised setting of 1920s New York, a throng of fantastical creatures play out the drama, the wry humour and the tragedy of the novel.

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoleon, who wrote to his beloved Josephine, "I awake consumed with thoughts of you..." Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved..." Dozens of intimate letters, coupled with over a score of period illustrations. Plus fascinating biographies, and insights into the couples' relationships-how they got there, the obstacles they faced, and what happened next. Poet warriors, from the first through the twentieth century, Ovid, Sir Walter Raleigh, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Shelley, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Pierre Curie, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Admiral Peary, Woodrow Wilson, and many more.

A collection of short stories including The rich boy - Winter dreams - The baby paraty - Absolution - The adjuster - Hot and cold blood - 'The sensible thing" - Gretchen's forty winks - Extra material on F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and his other works - All of these serve to describe the 1920s society that he inhabited.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

This is an Upper Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

"Laissez-moi vous parler des riches. Ils sont différents de vous et moi. Ils possèdent et jouissent tôt dans la vie, ce qui n'est pas sans effet sur eux ; cela les rend tendres là où nous nous endurcissons, cyniques là où nous sommes, nous, confiants, d'une manière difficile à comprendre lorsqu'on n'est pas né riche". Trois nouvelles contemporaines de Gatsby le magnifique, le chef-d'oeuvre de Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

This attractively designed edition of the classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties is bound in genuine bonded leather, with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon marker.

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 twelve 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. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.

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.

"A sumptuously illustrated adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel of the 1920s, in a vivid and accessible new format. F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece roars into life in this sweeping, dreamy graphic novel - among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolours, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, and excerpts from the original text weave themselves through the illustrations."--Provided by publisher

When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go study in France. As she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him in Provence later that year. But as the wedding approaches, Tom discovers that his fiancee has become involved with Riccard, a dashing French pilot and his near-double. A tale of broken trust and infidelity based on Zelda Fitzgerald's own dalliance with a French pilot, 'Image on the Heart' is here presented with other lesser-known stories written by Fitzgerald in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which develop many of the themes found in his novels and his more famous works of short fiction.

This collection contains 21 short stories selected by Matthew J. Bruccoli with the assistance of Scottie Fitzgerald Smith.SCOTTThe Popular Girl (1922)Love in the Night (1925)SCOTT AND ZELDAOur Own Movie Queen (1925)SCOTTA Penny Spent (1925)The Dance (1926)Jacob's Ladder (1927)The Swimmers (1929)ZELDAThe Original Follies Girl (1929)The Southern Girl (1929)The Girl the Prince Liked (1930)The Girl with Talent (1930)A Millionaire's Girl (1930)Poor Working Girl (1931)SCOTTThe Hotel Child (1931)A New Leaf (1931)ZELDAMiss Ella (1931)The Continental Angle (1932)A Couple of Nuts (1932)SCOTTWhat a Handsome Pair! (1932)Published PosthumouslyLast Kiss (1949)Dearly Beloved (1969)Dust jacket design by Jerry Thorp.

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 aeshete 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 nouveaux riches and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects wild ambiion, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerzld'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 enhaced 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.

"All crowds have to howl." Although F.Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby , his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the most raw, directly political commentary he ever wrote, and one of the most desperate works in his oeuvre. It is a tale of the brutalities of the American class system-of privileged college boys, returned from a bloody war, and a group of intellectual left-wing journalists, all coming into confrontation in the heart of New York City on Mayday at the end of World War I. Fitzgerald's fine eye for detail is on special display and his relentless plot leads to one of his most shocking climaxes, in what is the first and only stand alone version of this rarity. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

For the first time ever, this influential and important novelist's phenomenally successful bestseller and his intriguing collection of stories appear together in one volume. This Side of Paradise is the great novel of moral education and sexual awakening. Flappers and Philosophers is the acclaimed collection of eight stories: "The Offshore Pirate," "The Ice Palace," "Head and Shoulders," "The Cut-Glass Bowl," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "Benediction," "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong," and "The Four Fists."

Amory Blaine is the only child of wealthy parents. His family's fortune is lost and he must make his own way.

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most celebrated chronicler of the Jazz Age. At the time of his death, he believed he was an alcoholic failure; but he received posthumous acclaim as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This collection brings together some of his finest stories, including 'The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button'; 'Winter Dreams', a melancholy thwarted love story that anticipated The Great Gatsby, and 'Babylon Revisited', set the year after the 1929 stock market crash, when the Jazz Age sounded its last. 'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings' Ernest Hemingway

‘I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.’ The crackle of gin on ice, the first chords of the band, the low hum of gossip– whether you love or loathe parties, Fitzgerald writes them like no one else. From glittering occasions complete with an orchestra and dancing girls to a fist-fight at the end of a toddler’s birthday, this is a dazzling collection of party pieces from the master of celebration. Selected from The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and Flappers and Philosophers VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Tales of Scott and Zelda roadtripping, finally back in print In an early series of journalistic pieces for Motor magazine, F. Scott Fitzgerald described a journey he took with his wife Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a clapped out automobile which he called the "Rolling Junk." It is a piece of writing whose style, in free-ranging alternation of fact and fiction, has been compared to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat . This book collects together the articles as one text, illustrated with the original illustrations of Fitzgerald, Zelda, and the "Junk."