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juillet 1935, tremblement de terre en californie, les studios d'hollywood sont inondés. le jeune producteur prodige monroe stahr assiste au sauvetage de deux promeneuses égarées. l'une d'elles ressemble étrangement à son épouse disparue, la star minna davis. puis le travail reprend avec les scénaristes, les acteurs, les réalisateurs, dans un climat de passion, d'extrêmes tensions. amoureux fou de son métier et du milieu sur lequel il règne en despote, monroe stahr l'est aussi de cette femme aperçue le jour de l'inondation, l'insaisissable kathleen. il cherche à la revoir, puis à la séduire, dans l'espoir de vivre avec elle le bonheur qui lui a échappé avec minna. l'univers du cinéma a fasciné scott fitzgerald autant que son héros. comme lui, il est mort à hollywood. en laissant ce roman inachevé.

Il palazzo di ghiaccio parla della diciannovenne Sally Carrol Happer, cresciuta nel profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti dAmerica. I suoi concittadini si preoccupano quando vengono a sapere che si e fidanzata con Harry Bellamy, che abita in una citta del Nord, ma lei non ci fa caso, spinta dalla sua voglia di una vita meno monotona.

Escrito en 1922, durante la época dorada de Scott Fitzgerald,El crucero de la Chatarra Rodante es una de esas «obras menores» en las que suenan las notas más felices de un autor.Escrito en 1922, dura

Perry Parkhurst decide di partecipare a una festa in maschera in stile circense presso i Tate, a cui sara presente tutta la societa che conta della grande citta. Il negozio di costumi ha pero esaurito i vestiti a tema, a parte un grande costume da cammello che deve essere indossato da due persone. Cosi Perry ingaggia il suo tassista per impersonare la parte posteriore. Alla festa Betty Medill, la quale aveva rifiutato una proposta di matrimonio di Perry, giunge fascinosa nei panni di unincantatrice di serpenti, ed e subito attratta dalluomo travestito da cammello.

On the face of it, Evelyn Piper has it all: a loving husband, a devoted daughter, and a secure lifestyle. However, she is also the owner of a cut-glass bowl given to her in anger by a rejected suitor. This bowl seems to act as the connecting thread between all the tragedies that befall Evelyn and her family. With the deft use of symbolism, Fitzgerald creates a short story that encourages the reader to reflect on their own lives, material wealth, and past regrets. An introspective read for fans of the author of The Great Gatsby.

The Lees of Happiness is a romantic tale that will make you question what true love really is. A newlywed young woman and her author husband begin married life in a home of their own, but disease brings chaos and destruction to their happiness as their life and marriage unravel. Can their love survive the harsh realities of life?This touching, passionate tale about ordinary lives and their extraordinary love, is an American literary classic.A memorable short story of unconditional love, lifelong devotion, and human kindness, The Lees of Happiness is the ideal read for fans of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

En aquest costat delParadís (1920), el primer gran èxit del’autor, és un retrat agut i implacabled’Amory Blaine, «l’egotista romàntic», i engeneral, dels joves universitaris americansdurant l’anomena

Edición ilustrada y con nueva traducción del clásico de Scott Fitzgerald El gran Gatsby, publicada en 1925, ha sido considerada en numerosas ocasiones la mejor novela norteamericana del siglo XX. La historia se desarrolla en Nueva York y Long Island en los años 20 del pasado siglo y retrata de una manera brillante esos locos años de las fiestas, el jazz y el desenfreno previos a la Gran Depresion. Nick Carraway deja el Medio Oeste y llega a Nueva York en la primavera de 1922, una epoca de relajamiento moral y contrabando, en la que la Bolsa sube como la espuma. Nick, que busca su propia version del sueño americano, tiene como vecino a un misterioso millonario, Jay Gatsby, muy popular por sus impresionantes fiestas. Al otro lado de la bahia viven Daisy y su mujeriego marido, Tom Buchanan. El joven Nick se vera inmerso en el mundo cautivador de los millonarios, sus ilusiones, amores y engaños. "El gran Gatsby tiene pocos rivales como la gran novela americana del siglo xx. Al volver a leerla, una vez mas, mi inicial y primera reaccion es de renovado placer." Harold Bloom

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgeralds magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twains to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butlers "Note-books."The story was published in "Colliers" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati:"Sir--I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."