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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

"Gatsby le Magnifique" (titre en anglais : "The Great Gatsby") est le troisième roman de l'écrivain américain Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Publié en 1925 aux États-Unis, il a été traduit en français à partir de 1926 sous ce titre (hormis la retraduction "Gatsby" de 2011). L'histoire se déroule à New York dans les années 1920. Il a souvent été décrit comme le reflet de l'époque du jazz dans la littérature américaine.

Gatsby le Magnifique

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz / Le palais de glace

A gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring an afterword by Ned Halley. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness. Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose.

The Beautiful and Damned

Bernice se coiffe à la garçonne précédé de Le Pirate de la côte.

Bernice se coiffe à la garçonne

MY LAST FLAPPERS THE JELLY-BEAN. Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent Jelly-bean and he grew lazily all during Jelly-bean season, which is every season, down in the land of the Jelly-beans well below the Mason-Dixon line. Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole. If you Call a New Orleans man a Jelly-bean he will probably grin and ask you who is taking your girl to the Mardi Gras ball. The particular Jelly-bean patch which produced the protagonist of this history lies somewhere between the two—a little city of forty thousand that has dozed sleepily for forty thousand years in southern Georgia occasionally stirring in its slumbers and muttering something about a war that took place sometime, somewhere, and that everyone else has forgotten long ago. Jim was a Jelly-bean. I write that again because it has such a pleasant sound—rather like the beginning of a fairy story—as if Jim were nice. It somehow gives me a picture of him with a round, appetizing face and all sort of leaves and vegetables growing out of his cap. But Jim was long and thin and bent at the waist from stooping over pool-tables, and he was what might have been known in the indiscriminating North as a corner loafer. "Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular—I am idling, I have idled, I will idle. Jim was born in a white house on a green corner, It had four weather-beaten pillars in front and a great amount of lattice-work in the rear that made a cheerful criss-cross background for a flowery sun-drenched lawn. Originally the dwellers in the white house had owned the ground next door and next door to that and next door to that, but this had been so long ago that even Jim's father, scarcely remembered it. He had, in fact, thought it a matter of so little moment that when he was dying from a pistol wound got in a brawl he neglected even to tell little Jim, who was five years old and miserably frightened. The white house became a boarding-house run by a tight-lipped lady from Macon, whom Jim called Aunt Mamie and detested with all his soul

Contes de l'âge du jazz

Fitzgerald schafft ein treffendes Porträt von schönen, eigensinnigen jungen Frauen und ausschweifenden, vagabundierenden jungen Männer, die das ausmachten, was man die "Verlorene Generation" nannte. Mit ihren gegelten Haaren und den baumelnden Zigaretten sind seine Figuren raffiniert, witzig und vor allem modern.

Diese ikonische Sammlung von acht Geschichten enthält zum ersten Mal in deutscher Übersetzung einige von Fitzgeralds berühmtesten Erzählungen, darunter "Bernices Bubikopf", "Der Eispalast", "Kopf und Schultern" und "Der Offshore-Pirat". Sie ist heute ein fester Bestandteil der großen amerikanischen Literatur der Moderne und zeichnet das Amerika der 1920er Jahre.

Insgesamt ein einzigartiges Werk des Autors von "Der große Gatsby" und ein treffendes Porträt der sogenannten "Roaring Twenties", den von wirtschaftlichem Wachstum, Prohibition, Kriminalität, Jazz und Flappern geprägten 1920er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten.

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