F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A+ Audio is an audio series with enormous appeal for students and literature lovers alike. Created by top scholars from America's top universities, this innovative format features one-hour of audio and companion study booklet for each literary masterpiece. Compelling performances by well-known stage and screen actors and insightful critical analysis will enable literature fans and students to experience the classics as never before.
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...22) May Day
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Utilizing the May Day Riots of 1919 as historical backdrop, and the themes of lost youth and wealth as well as two distinct yet interrelated plots, this story contrasts the lower class fighting for their causes, while a group of privileged Yale alumni, meet for a dance.
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Selected Short Stories is a collection of some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable and thought-provoking works. Published in 1931, the collection includes several of his best-known stories, such as "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These stories explore themes of social class, love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Fitzgerald's writing style is characterized...
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›Das heimliche Meisterwerk Fitzgeralds.‹—›Die ZEIT‹ Der begabte amerikanische Psychiater Richard Diver, kurz Dick, lernt beim Besuch in einem Schweizer Sanatorium Nicole Warren, die psychisch kranke Tochter eines reichen Industriellen kennen und verliebt sich in sie. Dick heiratet Nicole, um ihr als Arzt und Ehemann beizustehen. Sie bekommen zwei Kinder und pflegen in den folgenden Jahren einen luxuriösen Lebensstil an der Cte d'Azur. Die...
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No writer portrayed Americas 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...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald - 45 Titles in One Edition".
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909)
Reade, Substitute Right Half (1910)
A Debt of Honor (1910)
The Room with the Green Blinds (1911)
A Luckless Santa Claus (1912)
Pain and the Scientist (1913)
The Trail of the Duke (1913)
Shadow Laurels (1915)
The...
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John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts, Percy boasts about his family's wealth, claiming that his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz Carlton Hotel. But Percy's strange behaviour and outlandish claims are just the first in a mysterious chain of events, the start of which dates back...
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Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the "calendar blues." But, as a friend advises, there isn't time to drift into romance, so she must instead "pick out the best thing in sight...and go after him hammer and tongs."
"Myra Meets His Family" is typical of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early commercial stories in terms of character, setting and theme, and although Fitzgerald feared it was no good, it sold it easily to The Saturday...
29) Tender Is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation'
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Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer's fractured marriage.
Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age, this novel follows the Divers as a beautiful actress enters their lives and highlights the dark delicacy...
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Libro formado por nueve relatos de intenso trasfondo autobiográfico, inmediatamente posterior a "El gran Gatsby". Al mundo dinámico de los jóvenes emprendedores que forman la clase de los nuevos ricos se opone el pequeño mundo antiguo de las grandes fortunas, de costumbres arraigadas y decadentes, de prejuicios y frivolidad. En el inevitable choque entre la fascinación por el pedigrí social y el trabajo productivo aparecen estos jóvenes tristes,...
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The Vegetable; Or, From President to Postman is F. Scott Fitzgerald's only play. The 1923 comedy is a political satire in which the ironic stage directions excel.
Jerry Frost has always aspired to become a postman. He feels trapped in his marriage and blames his overly-critical wife, Charlotte, for never having achieved his dreams. Charlotte claims that if Jerry had any real drive, he would pursue the presidency. Following an evening of very heavy...
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She was an impulsive, fashionable and carefree 1920's woman who embodied the essence of the Gatsby Girl -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda. As Fitzgerald said, "I married the heroine of my stories." All of the eight short stories contained in this collection were inspired by Zelda. Fitzgerald, one of the foremost writers of American fiction, found early success as a short story writer for the most widely read magazine of the early 20th century --...
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It was clear to anyone who knew F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was destined to be a great writer. His early work won accolades from his professors and was published in Yale's literary Journal as well as other outlets. These stories show that even before his Yale days Ftizgerald was already exploring themes and subjects that would one day make him a legend. Included here are seventeen stories, a one act play and three poems. This is the most complete...
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Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt's house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she's putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesn't know how to act at parties, so with her cousin's help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hair-the trademark of the "liberated"...
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Durante décadas, y acercándose a su centenario, El gran Gatsby ha sido considerada una obra maestra de la literatura y candidata al título de Gran novela americana por su dominio al mostrar la pura identidad americana junto a un estilo distinto y maduro.
La historia se desarrolla en la era del jazz americana en Long Island y New York y, con una narrativa que no da respiro al lector, nos presenta la vida de millonarios y socialites de la época,...
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It was clear to anyone who knew F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was destined to be a great writer. His early work won accolades from his professors and was published in Yale's literary Journal as well as other outlets. These stories show that even before his Yale days Ftizgerald was already exploring themes and subjects that would one day make him a legend. Included here are seventeen stories, a one act play and three poems. This is the most complete...
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The Vegetable, or From President to Postman is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that he developed into a play. In the original publication of The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (1923), F. Scott Fitzgerald included the following quotation on the title page: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has-he's...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald vivió 44 años. Una vida de excesos, de subida a los cielos y descenso a los infiernos. Con tan solo 23 años se vuelve rico y famoso de la noche a la mañana, y tan adepto al despilfarro como a la belleza, tan adicto al alcohol como a la literatura.
Este libro de cartas, muchas de ellas inéditas en castellano, abarcan el período desde el momento en que se convierte en un escritor reconocido hasta sus últimos días en Hollywood,...
39) Der große Gatsby
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Der Ich-Erzähler der Geschichte ist Nick Carraway, ein junger Mann, der sich 1922 in New York als Wertpapierhändler versucht und ein altes und bescheidenes Haus in West Egg auf Long Island an der Ostküste der USA bezieht. In dem palastartigen Nachbarhaus lebt Jay Gatsby, die Schlüsselfigur des Romans. Gatsby ist ein junger Millionär und undurchsichtiger Geschäftsmann, dessen geheimnisumwitterte Herkunft, seine unklare Ausbildung (Oxford?) und...