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The definite collection of Fitzgeralds short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the authors fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

Considerado pela "Modern Library" como o segundo melhor romance de língua inglesa do século XX, e por seu autor como algo novo - algo extraordinário, belo e simples, a Editora Landmark lança em uma exclusiva ediço bilingue, "O Grande Gatsby", obra-prima do escritor norte-americano F. Scott Fitzgerald. Com sua esposa, Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald mudou-se para a França, onde concluiu, em 1925, seu terceiro e mais celebre de romance, "O Grande Gatsby", considerado pela critica especializada como a obra-prima do escritor e uma das 100 melhores obras literarias de todos os tempos. Esta obra, uma das mais representativas do romance norte-americano, descreve a vida da alta sociedade, ambientada em Nova York e no litoral de Long Island, durante o vero de 1922, atraves de uma aguda reflexo critica. Alem de destacar brilhantemente uma sociedade obcecada por riqueza e status, o romance tambem apresenta os problemas da economia durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, a proibiço de bebidas alcoolicas pelo The Noble Experiment", o aumento do crime organizado com o contrabando de bebidas, surgimento de novos milionarios e a historia de amor entre Jay Gatsby e Daisy. Jay Gatsby e Daisy se conhecem cinco anos antes do começo da historia e se apaixonam. Ela e uma bela jovem da Louisiana e Gatsby, um jovem oficial da marinha sem qualquer riqueza, porem enquanto Gatsby cumpre seu dever como oficial na Primeira Guerra, Daisy se casa com o bruto, intolerante e milionario Tom Buchanan. Apos o termino da Guerra Gatsby se dedica inteiramente a reconquistar o amor de Daisy. Ele se empenha em fazer fortuna, por qualquer meio que seja, e se torna um milionario independente. Em seguida, compra uma manso vizinha a manso dos Buchanans e promove muitas festas com a esperança de que Daisy compareça a uma delas. Quando finalmente eles se encontram, acontecimentos tragicos so postos em movimento.

Allá por 1860, el Hospital Privado para Damas y Caballeros de Maryland fue testigo del nacimiento de un señor de setenta años. Así, sin más. Un señor de setenta años que, en cuanto vio a su padre, le pidio un baston. Y luego le pidio un traje de señor de setenta años. ¿No pretenderas que salga de aqui envuelto en una manta?, inquirio el viejo bebe, que, por cierto, tenia el pelo blanco. Asi arranca The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, la historia del unico bebe del mundo que en vez de cumplir años, los descumple. Escrito de forma sencilla, casi infantil, a la manera de una fabula para adultos, el lector iniciado podra disfrutar sin apenas dudas de la historia del tipo que vivio a contracorriente.La coleccion READ & LISTEN ofrece a los lectores hispanohablantes los mejores relatos cortos de los mas prestigiosos autores en lengua inglesa muchos de ellos premios Nobel; otros, a punto de serlo, junto con las herramientas necesarias para poder comprenderlos en su totalidad. Cada relato incluye un glosario a pie de pagina con las palabras clave, referencias culturales y aclaraciones de matices y giros ironicos del texto. El libro va acompañado de un CD para los que quieran practicar la comprension oral o simplemente escuchar el texto mientras lo van leyendo.Despues de años aprendiendo ingles, ha llegado el momento de disfrutar. ¡Te lo mereces!

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby" (his most famous), and "Tender Is the Night". A fifth, unfinished novel, "The Love of the Last Tycoon", was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.Fitzgeralds work has been adapted into films many times. His short story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", was the basis for a 2008 film. "Tender Is the Night" was filmed in 1962, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. "The Beautiful and Damned" was filmed in 1922 and 2010. "The Great Gatsby" has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. In addition, Fitzgeralds own life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in "Beloved Infidel".

The Great Gatsby, Fitzgeralds third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgeralss reputation as the voice of his generation. The novel delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love, and the gritty underbelly of the American Dream.

The very wealthy are different from the rest of us, and so is Anson. From a young age, he learned to speak in an almost British way; his words and sentences are crisp and clear. The first time he learned that his life was superior was when he realised that the parents of his friends were vaguely excited about their children playing with Anson and his siblings. Despite being born with a proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, Anson grew up to be an egoistic and lonely man.Problems arise in Ansons life when he falls in love with Paula, a woman who is as rich as himself.The Rich Boy is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Paris while waiting for The Great Gatsby to be published. Many of the themes that would be read in Gatsby are found in this short story.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in Scribners Magazine between JanuaryApril, 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.In 1932, Fitzgeralds wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the "la Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. It was Fitzgeralds first novel in nine years, and the last that he would complete. While working on the book he several times ran out of cash and had to borrow from his editor and agent, and write short stories for commercial magazines. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements.In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart.As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith."

This comedic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the character of Julie.A nonsensical, witty, and charming tale, Porcelain and Pink features a pink girl in a bathtub and an incident involving a false identity. The bathroom setting was probably a bit shocking for the time, but Fitzgeralds humour shines through with her dialogue as she comes out with hysterical one-liners. Porcelain and Pink will delight fans of Mark Twain.

Containing all the ambience of The Great Gatsby, The Rich Boy is a perfect collection of Fitzgerald stories evoking the trappings and illusions of 1920s high society. Undisputed king of Jazz Age writing, F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly encapsulated all the glamour and despair of 1920s society. These three short stories are supreme examples of his craft. With wealth and privileges beyond measure, rich boy Anson Hunter had every reason to expect life to be a breeze. Yet one by one his dreams fade away, leaving him with nothing. Slowly, painfully, he realises that beneath the sparkle and fizz of his glittering life lies only failure and disillusionment - the self-same emptiness that pervades the beautiful people of The Last of the Belles and The Bridal Party.

- Esta edición es única;- La traducción es completamente original y se realizó para el Ale. Mar. SAS;- Todos los derechos reservados.Generalmente considerada la mejor novela de F. Scott Fitzgerald, El Gran Gatsby es una sintesis perfecta de los "locos años veinte" y una demoledora denuncia de la "era del jazz". A traves de la narracion de Nick Carraway, el lector se adentra en el mundo superficialmente reluciente de las mansiones que jalonaban Long Island en los años veinte, para conocer a Daisy, la prima de Nick, a Tom Buchanan, su descarado pero acaudalado marido, a Jay Gatsby y el misterio que le rodea.

- Cette édition est unique;- La traduction est entièrement originale et a été réalisée pour lAle. Mar. SAS;- Tous droits réservés.Généralement considéré comme le meilleur roman de F. Scott Fitzgerald

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgeralds 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 Nicks cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.

- Esta edição é única;- A tradução é completamente original e foi realizada para a Ale. Mar. SAS;- Todos os direitos reservados.Geralmente considerado o melhor romance de F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Grand

- Diese Ausgabe ist einzigartig;- Die Ubersetzung ist vollstandig original und wurde fur das Ale. Mar. SAS;- Alle Rechte vorbehalten.Der grosse Gatsby, der allgemein als F. Scott Fitzgeralds bester Roman gilt, ist eine vollendete Zusammenfassung der "roaring twenties" und eine vernichtende Entlarvung des "Jazz Age". Durch die Erzahlung von Nick Carraway wird der Leser in die oberflachlich glitzernde Welt der Villen entfuhrt, die in den 1920er Jahren die Kuste von Long Island saumten, um Nicks Cousine Daisy, ihren forschen, aber reichen Ehemann Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby und das Geheimnis, das ihn umgibt, kennenzulernen.

La presente edizione e unica; La traduzione e completamente originale ed e stata eseguita per la societa Ale. Mar. SAS; Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Generalmente considerato il piu bel romanzo di F. Scott Fitzgerald, Il grande Gatsby e una sintesi perfetta dei "ruggenti anni Venti" e una denuncia devastante dell"Eta del Jazz". Attraverso la narrazione di Nick Carraway, il lettore viene condotto nel mondo superficialmente scintillante delle ville che costeggiavano Long Island negli anni Venti, per incontrare la cugina di Nick, Daisy, il suo sfacciato ma ricco marito Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby e il mistero che lo circonda.