Les enfants du jazz

»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.«

The Great Gatsby (English Edition)

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 toute pièce, Gatsby, figure solaire par son rayonnement, lunaire par le mystère qu'il génère, est réputé pour les soirées qu'il donne dans sa somptueuse propriété. L'opulence, de même que la superficialité des conversations et des relations humaines, semblent ne pas y avoir de limites. C'est pourquoi l'illusion ne peut être qu'éphémère. Parmi les invités de cet hôte étrange se trouve Nick Carraway, observateur lucide qui seul parvient à déceler une certaine grandeur chez Gatsby, incarnation de multiples promesses avortées. Ce roman visuel qui se décline dans des tons d'or, de cuivre et d'azur, s'impose également comme la chronique d'une certaine époque vouée, telle la fête qui porte en elle son lendemain, à n'être magnifique que le temps d'un air de jazz. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

Gatsby le magnifique

"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Tarquin of Cheapside" "Oh Russet Witch!" "The Lees of Happiness" "Mr. Icky" "Jemina"

Les enfents du jazz

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Pocket Book's Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further read, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.

Les heureux et les damnés

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

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

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.

Tendre est la nuit

"First you take a drink, " F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush - with quite a hangover.

Les enfants du jazz

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