This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation."

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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

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz est unanimement considéré comme son plus grand recueil. Bienvenue dans l'Amérique des années folles, fascinée par le faste, le clinquant, les exilés millionnaires de l'après-guerre ou les luxueux rivages européens. Les vingt-sept nouvelles, écrites entre 1920 et 1940, qui composent ce livre nous offrent le plus émouvant témoignage sur la vie des écrivains américains, leur solitude et leurs deux démons, les femmes et l'alcool.Et, en filigrane, un magnifique portrait de Fitzgerald dont toute la vie, les souvenirs, les passions et les malheurs ont servi à nourrir l'œuvre. Envoûtants, reflets d'un âge d'or, dont chacun conserve - le plus souvent en secret- la nostalgie, ces récits en forme d'éternels adieux à la jeunesse ont le pouvoir immuable de faire naître l'émotion.

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz

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

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

Der amerikanische Psychiater 'Dick' Richard Diver lernt die Industriellentochter Nicole kennen. Durch seine Liebe und auch ärztliche Kunst kann er ihr helfen. Die beiden gründen eine Familie und führen dank des Vermögens von Nicoles Familie ein mehr als angenehmes Leben. Das dekadente Leben wird zunehmend zur Prüfung und zur Belastung für alle Beteiligten.

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Official Film Edition including an interview with Baz Luhrmann Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have. The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece; a tragic love story played out in a world of dangerous illusion amidst the famous decadence of the roaring twenties. The perfect companion to the DVD, Blu-ray and soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

The Great Gatsby Film tie-in Edition - Official Film Edition including interview with Baz Luhrmann

Der Psychiater Dick Diver führt mit seiner wohlhabenden aber psychisch kranken Frau Nicole ein luxuriöses Leben an der Côte d'Azur. Die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary macht auf einer Urlaubsreise an der Riviera die Bekanntschaft der Divers und zwischen ihr und Dick entspinnt sich eine leidenschaftliche Romanze, die jedoch von Dick beendet wird. Während seine Frau sich langsam erholt, verfällt er immer mehr dem Alkohol.

Fitzgerald selbst bezeichnete autobiographisch geprägte nRoman als sein bedeutendstes Werk.

«"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.

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