Young Dexter Green falls in love, while still a teenager, with a rich and beautiful maiden, Judy Jones. He attends a famous university, plays golf on the courses of St. Paul, becomes a prominent businessman and succeeds in winning the woman he loves, but the love lasts only a month: the woman he has loved so much has now lost all her beauty, and this loss is the loss of his "winter dreams." Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, the story explores themes of ambition, unrequited love, and the disillusionment that accompanies the pursuit of the American Dream. Complete edition with interactive table of contents.
La correspondencia «excepcionalmente conmovedora» (Booklist) de una pareja literaria icónica«Zelda escribe con una prosa directa y apasionada; Francis, con un estilo poético que recuerda a su ficció
Introduction, notes and activities by Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua The mythical figure of Jay Gatsby haunts this celebrated depiction of the Jazz Age. A profound commentary on the American Dream, Fitzgeralds masterpiece examines the decay of idealism, innocence and moral value in the decade following World War One. This edition also includes a selection of critical extracts on The Great Gatsby. Sales restricted to certain countries.
Definitive novel of the "Lost Generation" focuses on the coming of age of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student. He exemplifies the young men and women of the 20s who grew up to find "all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Fitzgerald's first novel and an immediate, spectacular success.
Alguna vez F. Scott Fitzgerald definió sus novelas como un intento de mostrar la vida de un hombre a través de un fragmento tratado apasionadamente. Como respondiendo a este designio literario, en la presente selección de su correspondencia se impone, al documento de vida, la experiencia de lo novelesco. En lo que va de una guerra a otra (1920 a 1940) las cartas a amigos, a editores, a E. Hemmingway, a T. S. Eliot, recortan la vida del escritor en torno a una pregunta: ¿qué ha pasado?, ¿qué, que pueda explicar la locura de Zelda o el alcoholismo de Scott? Texto valioso no porque en sus coincidencias evidentes con la trama de sus obras sirva como explicación de ésta sino porque como en EL GRAN GATSBY el CRACK UP, con aguda belleza, las cartas expresan "el destino trágico y oscuro de ser instrumento de algo incomprendido, incomprensible, desconocido."
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraways interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsbys obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, el anfitrión de las noches sin tregua, pero también el triunfador marcado por el trágico sino de una soledad no pretendida, es el arquetipo de esos años veinte que se iniciaron con la Prohibicion y discurrieron en el gangsterismo y la corrupcion politica organizada. Protagonista de una decada que culminaria con la catastrofe de 1929, su imagen de esplendor no hace sino anunciar un drama inevitable. Triunfo de perpetua juventud, brillantez animada por el exceso, fueron tambien las constantes de la vida de FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD, quien nos ofrece en El gran Gatsby una de sus obras mayores.
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old. The young "romantic egoist" Amory Blaine--vain, shallow, and self-absorbed--whose progress from prep school to Princeton frequently parallels Fitzgerald''s own life, is the quintessential youth of the postwar "Lost Generation." Fitzgerald''s unsparing portrait of a young man who takes himself far too seriously makes THIS SIDE OF PARADISE one of his most endearing and entertaining books. Upon its publication, Fitzgerald became an instant literary superstar, and this early fame--and his inability to mature--helped bring about the downfall, only 20 years later, of a major American writer.
The Jazz Age: lights, parties, beautiful cars and cocktail dresses, but behind the tenderness of the night lies its darkness, its harshness, the sense of loneliness. Young Nick Carraway moves to New York City in the summer of 1922. He rents a house in prestigious, dreamy Long Island, teeming with the newly rich desperately busy partying with each other. One neighbor strikes Nick in a particular way: he is the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who lives in an outsized, gaudy house, filling it every Saturday night with guests at his extravagant parties. Yet he lives in desperate loneliness and falls senselessly in love with Nicks married cousin Daisy. The American myth decays page after page, retaining all the glitter of its facade but also showing its fragility. Just as was happening to Fitzgerald himself, a former playboy grappling with the mystery of an existence now doomed to final dissolution.Complete edition with reader-friendly table of contents.
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.
