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Everybody who is anybody is seen at Jay Gatsby's glittering parties. Day and night his mansion on West Egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

In Tender is the Night by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the readers are taken on a journey through the lives of a wealthy American couple living in Europe during the 1920s. The book delves into themes of wealth, power, love, and the decline of the American dream. Fitzgeralds prose is eloquent and poignant, capturing the decadence and disillusionment of the Jazz Age. The narrative style alternates between present and past events, creating a sense of mystery and depth to the characters and their relationships. Tender is the Night is considered a classic work of American literature, showcasing Fitzgeralds mastery of storytelling and character development. The novel is a reflection of the authors own struggles with wealth, fame, and the fleeting nature of happiness, making it a timeless piece of literature that continues to resonate with readers today.

Francis Scott Fitzgeralds Tender is the Night is a captivating novel that delves into the complexities of human relationships and the dark side of the American Dream. Set in the glamorous French Riviera during the 1920s, this book exemplifies Fitzgeralds signature lyrical prose and keen observations of the social elite. The novel explores themes of wealth, power, love, and betrayal, making it a compelling read for those interested in American literature and the Jazz Age. Fitzgeralds use of symbolism and vivid imagery adds a layer of depth to the narrative, leaving readers enthralled by the characters and their struggles. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, known for his iconic novel The Great Gatsby, drew inspiration for Tender is the Night from his own tumultuous marriage and experiences with the high society of the Roaring Twenties. His personal struggles and observations of the glittering yet superficial world he inhabited inform the nuanced portrayal of the characters in the novel. I highly recommend Tender is the Night to readers who enjoy thought-provoking literary works that explore themes of love, loss, and the complex nature of human emotions. Fitzgeralds masterful storytelling and rich character development make this novel a timeless classic that continues to resonate with audiences today.

United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love . . .

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.

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.

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...

Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, Tales of the Jazz Age includes two of F. Scott Fitzgeralds better-known short stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgeralds own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of early 11 short stories shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention.

Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgeralds trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. This collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era.

Considerada la mejor obra de F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (1925) narra las historias de varios personajes que viven en un pueblo ficticio de la próspera Long Island (Nueva York) en el vera

- 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

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.

- 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Flappers and Philosophers - The Original 1920 Edition" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of this work was published in 1920 by Charles Scribners Sons, New York. The stories involve characters typical of the 1920s jazz-age generation, the flappers and philosophers of the affluent and heady America lately recovered from World War One. These include careless, happy, liberated and bored youth, society girls and town boys, against the backdrop of jazz music and dance, feminists, intellectuals, odd couplings of people not expected to fall in love, the melding of high and low culture and old and new wealth. It includes eight stories: "The Offshore Pirate""The Ice Palace""Head and Shoulders""The Cut-Glass Bowl""Bernice Bobs Her Hair""Benediction""Dalyrimple Goes Wrong""The Four Fists" Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 1940) 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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Early Stories of 1909 - 1917" contains 14 previously uncollected stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. F. Scott Fitzgerald neglected his studies at school and college because he was occupied with his literary apprenticeship. His first appearance in print was "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage," published in the St. Paul Academy Now and Then in October 1909 when he was thirteen. His first story in the Newman News was "A Luckless Santa Claus" (Christmas 1912), which introduces the subject of a young man committed to an adventure for the sake of love. At Princeton he wrote abundantly for The Nassau Literary Magazine and The Princeton Tiger, the humor magazine, as well as providing the lyrics for three Triangle Club shows. His Lit stories improved steadily, with the last two, "Sentiment-And the Use of Rouge" (June 1917) and "The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw" (October 1917) achieving mature treatment of love and sexual force. Table of Contents: The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. Reade, Substitute Right Half. A Debt of Honor. The Room with the Green Blinds. A Luckless Santa Claus. Pain and the Scientist. The Trail of the Duke. Shadow Laurels. The Ordeal. The Debutante. The Spire and the Gargoyle. Babes in the Woods. Sentiment - and the Use of Rouge. The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 1940) 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.

- 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.

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.