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Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity.Also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists, this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgeralds development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.________''He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.'' The New York Times

Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has to confront the pitfalls of popularity.Written for the Saturday Evening Post while the author was working on Tender Is the Night, these stories form a realistic and entertaining portrait of two young adults in the 1910s, fascinating both for the autobiographical insights they provide and the timeless satire that Fitzgeralds fiction has become synonymous with.________''He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.'' The New York Times

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master strokeThe Great Gatsbythat would follow, and marks a key moment in the writers career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of 1920s New York: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a large fortune, they begin their married life by living well beyond their means. Their days are marked by endless drinking, dancing, luxury, and play. But when the expected inheritance is withheld, their lives become consumed with the pursuit of wealth, and their alliance begins to fall apart. Inspired in part by Fitzgeralds own tumultuous union with his wife Zelda, hauntingly rendered and keenly observed, these characters evoke a vivid portrait of a lost world: a city steeped in vice, a society without direction, and the rootless and decadent generation that inhabited it.

Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, 'The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest pieces of short fiction. This volume also includes other acclaimed stories - such as 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Swimmers' and 'The Bridal Party' - written by Fitzgerald between 1927 and 1931, during the prolonged period in which he was struggling to compose Tender Is the Night.

Veintitrés años antes de que J. D. Salinger publicara"El guardían entre el centeno", Francis Scott Fitzgerald se adelantó a ese libro narrarrando las aventuras de otro adolescente, Basil Duke Lee. Comienzan cuando el protagonista tiene once años y acaban cuando ya ha cumplido los diecisiete y estudia en la Universidad de Yale. Ocho de los nueve capitulos que componen la novela aparecieron por entregas entre la primaverade 1928 y la de 1929 en The Saturday Evening Post, mientras su autor escribia uno de sus grandes titulos, Suave es la noche. La adolescencia de Basil Duke Lee contiene muchos elementos autobiograficos de Scott Fitzgerald: su pasion por las mujeres, su obsesion por agradar a todo el mundo y sus enormes esfuerzos para triunfar en sociedad y escalar un puesto por encima del de sus padres. Aunque lo mas importante es la maestria para meterse en la piel de un chico sensible e inteligente que se enfrenta a un mundo a punto de desmoronarse por la crisis del Crack del 29.

Tres obras de Francis Scott Fitzgerald que non debe perderse (todas con indice activo):- EL GRAN GATSBY- SUAVE ES LA NOCHE- A ESTE LADO DEL PARAISO

Navona rescata esta obra, descatalogada, en la única edición en castellano autorizada por los herederos del autor. La edición cuenta con un esclarecedor prólogo de Edmun Wilson y con numerosas notas y riguroso epilogo de la traductora Dolors Ortega, en el que se explica el proceso de traduccion contrastando las versiones de Wilson (1941 y de Bruccoli (1993).

Jay Gatsby es un hombre muy popular. No sólo por su fortuna, sino también por las grandes fiestas que organiza en su lujosa residencia de Long Island, a las que concurre lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Pero sobre su persona corre todo tipo de rumores. Nadie sabe realmente quien es, a que se dedica ni cual es el origen de la fortuna de este misterioso personaje que pasa gran parte del tiempo en su jardin mirando al atardecer la luz del otro lado de la bahia. Y es que ni siquiera un hombre como el es capaz de recuperar el pasado. "El gran Gatsby" es una de las novelas mas importantes de la historia de la literatura.Jay Gatsby es un hombre muy popular. No sólo por su fortuna, sino también por las grandes fiestas que organiza en su lujosa residencia de Long Island, a las que concurre lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Pero sobre su persona corre todo tipo de rumores. Nadie sabe realmente quien es, a que se dedica ni cual es el origen de la fortuna de este misterioso personaje que pasa gran parte del tiempo en su jardin mirando al atardecer la luz del otro lado de la bahia. Y es que ni siquiera un hombre como el es capaz de recuperar el pasado. "El gran Gatsby" es una de las novelas mas importantes de la historia de la literatura.

"Francis Scott Fitzgerald es uno de los escritores norteamericanos más importantes del siglo XX, gracias a obras como «El gran Gatsby», «A este lado del paraíso» o «Hermosos y malditos». Basil Duke

A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts. A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald''s short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald''s work.Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected eleven forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald''s career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald''s characteristically rich, vivid prose.

Dans le Long Island des années vingt, la fête est bruyante et la boisson abondante. Surtout chez Jay Gatsby.Aventurier au passé obscur, artiste remarquable par sa capacité à se créer un personnage de

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.