Dès sa naissance, loin d'être un beau poupon joufflu, Benjamin Button ressemble à un vieillard voûté et barbu ! Ses parents découvrent peu à peu qu'il rajeunit chaque jour : de vieillard il devient un homme mûr, un jeune homme, un enfant... Bénédiction ou malédiction ?

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Magnétisme & Autres Nouvelles

The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 comedic short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They first appeared in Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, but in 1962 they were collected into a single book and published posthumously. Pat Hobby is a once successful screenwriter in Hollywood, but now an alcoholic and broke, who spends his time hanging around the studio, hoping for work. The stories generally revolve around him hatching a plan to earn money or glory in some way, but they usually end in further humiliation. The introduction to the book states, "while it would be unfair to judge this book as a novel, it would be less than fair to consider it as anything but a full-length portrait. It was as such that Fitzgerald worked on it, and would have wanted it presented in book form, after its original magazine publication. He thought of it as a comedy."

Histoires de Pat Hobby

Nouvelles 49: édition bilingue français/anglais

Nouvelles 49: Absolution/Le Premier Mai/Retour à Babylone

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.

Tendre Est La Nuit

All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The volume contains nine stories, Fitzgerald wrote at a time of disillusionment.

All the Sad Young Men

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, ici présenté dans la traduction de référence, par Jacques Tournier.

Gatsby le Magnifique

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

"Der Offshore-Pirat" ist eine Geschichte, die 1920 von F. Scott Fitzgerald geschrieben wurde. Es ist eine von acht Geschichten, die in Fitzgeralds erster veröffentlichter Sammlung "Flappers and Philosophers" enthalten sind.

Die Story handelt von Ardita Farnam, die auf einer Reise nach Florida ist. Ihr Boot wird schließlich von Piraten gekapert, sie verliebt sich in deren Kapitän.

In der Ausgabe der Saturday Evening Post vom 27. Mai 1920 wurde die Erzählung zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht, dies war die dritte Veröffentlichung seines Werkes in der Zeitschrift in diesem Monat. Sie zeigt seine rasante Entwicklung als vielseitiger Belletristiker. Es ist die erste Geschichte, die Fitzgeralds immer wiederkehrende Handlungsidee einer Heldin entwickelt, die durch die Ausführung einer außergewöhnlichen Heldentat ihres Geliebten gewonnen wird.

Die Handlung wurde 1921 als Der Off-Shore-Pirat mit Viola Dana in der Hauptrolle als Ardita verfilmt. Im Jahr 2010 hatte eine Opernversion von Joel Weiss an der Christopher Street Opera in New York City Premiere.

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