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Tales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Tales of the Jazz Age

Official Film Edition including an interview with Baz Luhrmann Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have. The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece; a tragic love story played out in a world of dangerous illusion amidst the famous decadence of the roaring twenties. The perfect companion to the DVD, Blu-ray and soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

The Great Gatsby Film tie-in Edition - Official Film Edition including interview with Baz Luhrmann

»It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water. I lived at West Egg, the less fashionable of the two, though it is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards away from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand for a season. the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard. It was Gatsby's mansion.«

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Un diamant gros comme le Ritz / Le palais de glace

Contient : La Coupe de cristal tailléBérénice se fait couper les cheveuxLe Palais de glaceGuimauveLa Lie du bonheurLe Premier maiUn diamant gros comme le RitzRêves d'hiverC'est plus raisonnableUn goûter d'enfantsLe Garçon richeLa DanseLe NouveauLa Dernière jolie filleUn voyage à l'étrangerA votre âgeRetour à BabyloneUn dimanche de fousUne famille dans la tourmenteUn cas d'alcoolismeLa Longue fuiteLa Décade perdueTrois heures entre deux avionsLa Mère d'un écrivainLe Locataire de la chambre 19Mise au rencartLa Fêlure

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz et 26 autres nouvelles

"Gatsby le magnifique" (1925) est le chef-d'oeuvre de Francis Scott Fitzgerald.Au début des années 1920, dans une débauche de luxe, d'alcool et d'argent, un mystérieux personnage s'installe à Long Island dans un domaine incroyable d'extravagance. Qui est ce charmant et légendaire Gatsby, incarnation du pouvoir et de la réussite, dont les fêtes attirent toute la société locale? Les rumeurs les plus folles circulent. Un espion? Un gentleman anglais? Un héros de guerre? Un mythomane? Une vérité plus profonde se cache derrière l'orgueil et la magnificence de Gatsby, celle d'un ancien adolescent pauvre et d'un amant trahi qui ressemble beaucoup à Fitzgerald lui-même. Le vingtième siècle ne fait que commencer mais la fête semble déjà finie...

Gatsby le magnifique

Un couple à l'image de la société dans laquelle il vit (celle des États-Unis entre les deux guerres) se désagrège, malgré les richesses dont il dispose.

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