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

Gatsby est un jeune millionnaire au passe trouble, issu d'une famille pauvre du Middle West. Dans une luxueuse propriete de Long Island, il donne de somptueuses receptions qui reunissent la haute societe New Yorkaise. Son voisin Nick va chercher a savoir qui est exactement cet homme, qui deviendra bientot son ami."

Gatsby Le Magnifique

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

»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)

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

"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...

«"J'adore les bijoux, renchérit Percy, enthousiaste. Naturellement, je ne voudrais pas que cela se sache à l'école, mais j'en ai moi-même une collection intéressante. J'en faisais la collection avant de me mettre aux timbres. - Et des diamants, reprit John, avec exaltation. Les Schnlitzer-Murphy avaient des diamants gros comme des noix¿ - Ça, ce n'est rien." Percy s'était penché vers lui et avait baissé la voix au point qu'elle n'était plus qu'un simple murmure. "Ce n'est rien du tout. Mon père a un diamant plus gros que l'hôtel Ritz-Carlton."» Pièce maîtresse de l'œuvre fitzgéraldienne, Le diamant gros comme le Ritz déplie singulièrement l'un des grands thèmes de son auteur : le faste et ses fantômes.

Le diamant gros comme le Ritz

Beautiful and rebellious, young aristocrat Ardita Farnam finds herself at the mercy of pirates when her uncle's yacht is taken over by musicians-turned-armed robbers, Curtis Carlyle and his Six Black Buddies. Fleeing south with Curtis and his band, Ardita, egotist though she is, finds she is more interested in the pirate leader than in her own precarious situation."The Offshore Pirate" was included in author F. Scott Fitzgerald's first collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers and, in 2013, was the basis for a short film of the same title set in the Cook Islands. 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.

The Offshore Pirate - Short Story

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

Gatsby le magnifique

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