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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

Tender Is the Night, Francis Scott Fitzgeralds last completed novel, intricately weaves the narratives of love, ambition, and the complexities of human relationships against the backdrop of the glamorous yet disillusioning 1920s. Written in a fluid and lyrical prose style, Fitzgerald employs stream-of-consciousness techniques and shifting perspectives to depict the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a charming psychiatrist, and his unraveling marriage to the enigmatic actress Nicole Warren. This literary work dives deep into themes of mental illness, the impact of wealth on personal identity, and the existential despair that pervades a seemingly glittering society. Fitzgerald, often regarded as one of the greatest American authors, was heavily influenced by his experiences within the expatriate community in Europe and the tumultuous nature of his own marriage. The novel reflects the authors keen observations of the recklessness of the Jazz Age and the inevitable decline that accompanies excess and ambition. With its semi-autobiographical elements, Tender Is the Night captures Fitzgeralds struggles with his own psychological demons and the constraints of fame. I wholeheartedly recommend Tender Is the Night to readers who seek an introspective exploration of human frailty and the profound disillusionment that can arise from love and success. Fitzgerald masterfully evokes an emotional landscape that resonates with anyone grappling with the duality of aspiration and despair, making this novel a timeless and essential read.

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).

Hoteletako glamour eta festa pribatuetako poz kaskarinarekin hasi, eta bizitza alferrik galdu duenaren sentipen mingotsarekin amaitu, F. Scott Fitzgeralden ipuin antologia honek (Garazi Arrulak eta Iñigo Roquek prestatua) idazlearen bizitza eta ibilbidea laburbiltzen dizkigu. Ospea batez ere eleberriek eman zioten arren (eta eleberri horien zinemaratze ugariek), ipuingile trebe eta estimatua izan zen, bere garaian aldizkariek ondoen ordaindutakoa eta ehundik gora kontakizun ondu zituena.Gaztetako ilusioak azkar usteldu zitzaizkion belaunaldi bat erakusten digu Scott Fitzgeraldek, dirua erraz egin eta errazago gastatzen duen aberatsen gizarte fribolo, axalekoa. Arinak eta alaiak dira haren istorioak, esku abil batek idatziak, baina estetizismo horren eta itxurazko aisetasunaren azpian halako behera-behar baten zantzuak ageri dira, salaketa morala eta amerikar ametsaren porrota.

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.

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.

Taps at Reveille (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgeralds agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including Crazy Sunday, and Babylon Revisited, a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre.