New York, années folles… Dans sa somptueuse demeure de Long Island, Jay Gatsby organise de fastueuses réceptions où les invités se pressent en foule. Mais leur hôte ne cherche à éblouir qu’une seule personne : Daisy Buchanan. Elle est élégante, riche, séduisante, mais elle est la femme d’un héritier millionnaire… Avec ce texte devenu un classique, Fitzgerald, sur un air de jazz et une coupe de champagne à la main, met à nu le Rêve américain et écrit l’un des plus beaux romans du XXe siècle.

Gatsby le Magnifique

The bestselling Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald's final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, depth and ultimate destruction of love between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre, who was at the time of his writing confined in a mental institution. A deliberately ambitious work, Tender is the Night is the compelling story of Dick Diver, a gifted psychoanalyst at the beginning of his career, his wife Nicole, one of his patients, and their holiday encounter with Rosemary Hoyt. In his narrative Fitzgerald experimented with point of view and chronology, and drew on psychiatric practices and experimentation as they related to his characters' experiences. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Tender is the Night

John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts, Percy boasts about his family's wealth, claiming that his father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz Carlton Hotel. But Percy's strange behaviour and outlandish claims are just the first in a mysterious chain of events, the start of which dates back all the way to the days of George Washington. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

The Diamond As Big As The Ritz - Short Story

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

THE CRACK-UP

"Head and Shoulders" is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarbox-the "head"-answers the door to Vaudeville star Marcia-the "shoulders." Marcia's performance is but the first step in an astonishing role reversal that will prove, ".when you [open] the door at the rap of life, you let in many things.""Head and Shoulders" was collected in Flappers and Philosophers (1920), and is resonant with many of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most popular themes including mismatched lovers, the sacrifices made for love, and romantic disappointment. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Head And Shoulders - Short Story

O Russet Witch! is a short story by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and was first published in the "Metropolitan," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 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. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair. Fitzgerald's work has inspired writers ever since he was first published. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "[I]t seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...." Don Birnam, the protagonist of Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend, says to himself, referring to The Great Gatsby, "There's no such thing ... as a flawless novel. But if there is, this is it." In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald's work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as "Fitzgerald's successor." Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, called The Great Gatsby "the most nourishing novel [he] read ... a miracle of talent ... a triumph of technique." It was written in a New York Times editorial after his death that Fitzgerald "was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation ... He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction."

La sorcière rousse

This collection, originally assembled by the author in 1922, features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most impressive and recognized pieces of short fiction. Divided into three parts, the tales are a diverse assortment, including the whimsical "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, " the visceral "May Day, " and the adventurous "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz."Although he is better known for novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald was also a skilled short-story writer, and Tales of the Jazz Age includes some of the best examples of the author's writing in this genre. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Tales Of The Jazz Age

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.

Gatsby le Magnifique

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