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The Collected Works of F: Scott Fitzgerald The Collected Works of F: Scott Fitzgerald
Автор: Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 1456 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 2013
   This title features collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. «This Side of Paradise» catapulted him to fame, its expose of the manners and morals of a post-war generation becoming a cause celebre. «The Beautiful and Damned», a semi-autobiographical moral parable of a doomed marriage, affirmed Fitzgerald's status as the spokesman for the generation of the 1920s. His third novel, «The Great Gatsby», remains for many readers the definitive American novel of the twentieth century, its eponymous hero a complex fictional portrayal of a romantic imagination at the mercy of a corrupt reality. «Tender is the Night» is an American Vanity Fair set on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Fitzgerald was working on «The Last Tycoon» at his death in 1940, and many critics rank his account of Hollywood at the height of the studio system, even in its unfinished state, as comparable to the achievement of «The Great Gatsby».
 
Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon
Автор: Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 2013
   This title includes an Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. «Tender is the Night» is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver — her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers' troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, «Tender is the Night» has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal experiences on which the novel is based. Six years separate «Tender is the Night» and «The Last Tycoon», the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940. Fitzgerald lived in Hollywood more or less continuously from July 1937 until his death, and a novel about the film industry at the height of 'the studio system' centred on the working life of a top producer was begun in 1939. Even in its incomplete state «The Last Tycoon» remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing.
 
This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned
Автор: Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 2011 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 2013
   This title includes an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly. This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald's first novel, and its instant success made him famous. The Beautiful and the Damned was Fitzgerald's second novel, and describes the beginning of what became known as 'The Jazz Age'. This title's publication date is 15 May 2011.
 
Tender is the Night Tender is the Night
Автор: Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 423 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 2014
   Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, «Tender is the Night» is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. 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.
 
The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned
Автор: Жанр: CRW Publishing Издательство: CRW Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 412 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 2016
   »The Beautiful and Damned», F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.
 
The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned
Автор: Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 2013
   Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (+ CD-ROM) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 2013
   Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem.
 
The Diamond As Big As The Ritz And Other Stories The Diamond As Big As The Ritz And Other Stories
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 2015
   Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. «The Bowl» is a clear metaphor for this cold and brittle world, as a beautiful woman is made to suffer for the cruelty of her youth, her punishment ironically taking the shape of a cut-glass punch-bowl. The amusing «Bernice Bobs Her Hair» depicts a dull girl striving at all costs to enter society, where the competition and jealousy wrought between women leads to bitter vengeance and a quirky twist in the tale. However, the powerful and destructive influence of money is never more stunningly revealed than in Fitzgerald's most famous and unusual story, «The Diamond as Big as the Ritz».
 
Essential Fitzgerald (количество томов: 4) Essential Fitzgerald (количество томов: 4)
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 2013
   The author who most epitomises the decadent jazz age and 'the lost generation' of post-World War. One America, Fitzgerald remains a best-selling author worldwide. Collected here in this covetable and must-have boxed set are four of his major works, including «The Great Gatsby».
 
Great Gatsby Great Gatsby
Автор: Жанр: CIDEB Издательство: CIDEB Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 2011
   Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.
 
The Great Gatsby Unbound The Great Gatsby Unbound
Автор: Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2015
   Nick Carraway, a young virgin from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to find love. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich — a group prone to garish, extravagant parties full of wild, erotic activities. And Nick's next-door neighbour is the worst of them all: a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who throws open the doors of his gigantic Gothic mansion every Saturday night to house the most opulent, seductive sexual encounters. A carnal, sensual world is revealed to Nick, led by the beautiful, alluring, golf champion, Jordan Baker who is devoid of all love and wants to make him another of her playthings. But who is Jay Gatsby? And what will happen when Nick steps into his raunchy, wild mansion? Things will never be the same again in this erotic retelling of The Great Gatsby.
 
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Автор: Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 2016
   Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have. The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece; a tragic love story played out in a world of dangerous illusion amidst the famous decadence of the roaring twenties.
 
Tender is the Night Tender is the Night
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 2013
   It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.
 
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 2013
   Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.
 
Flappers and Philosophers Flappers and Philosophers
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 2009
   First published in 1920, Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself «a master of the mechanism of short story technique (Boston Transcript). Several of his most beloved tales are represented in this collection of eight, including Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Head and Shoulders, with their particularly O. Henry-like twists; the poignant Benediction and The Cut-Glass Bowl; and The Offshore Pirate, the octet's opening and most romantic story. It is a collection of masterful short works from an American literary icon that led The New York Times Book Review to note that [no one] can fail to recognize Mr. Fitzgerald's talent and genius. Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further reading, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.
 
Classic Works of F: Scott Fitzgerald Classic Works of F: Scott Fitzgerald
Автор: Жанр: Sterling Publishing Издательство: Sterling Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 2016
   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.
 
This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 2008
   The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young Amory Blaine.
 
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
Автор: Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 2009
   »The Diamond as Big as the Ritz» is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are «The Cut-Glass Bowl», «May Day», «The Rich Boy», «Crazy Sunday», «An Alcoholic Case», «The Lees of Happiness», «The Lost Decade» and «Babylon Revisited».
 
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Автор: Жанр: Wordsworth Издательство: Wordsworth Год: 1992 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 2009
   Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the «roaring twenties», and a devastating expose of the «Jazz Age». Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
 
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Автор: Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 2013
   »He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was...» «The Great Gatsby» (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby's lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island's gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named `the Jazz Age'. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams — his `unutterable visions' — seemed to be incarnated in her kiss. A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel, its critical reception and its significance for future generations.
 

 

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