"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Tarquin of Cheapside" "Oh Russet Witch!" "The Lees of Happiness" "Mr. Icky" "Jemina"

Les enfents du jazz

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 Segen ("Benediction") ist eine Geschichte des amerikanischen Autors F. Scott Fitzgerald, die erstmals 1920 in Fitzgeralds Geschichtensammlung Flappers and Philosophers veröffentlicht wurde. Sie erzählt von einem jungen Mädchens, Lois, die auf dem Weg zu einem Stelldichein mit ihrem Geliebten Howard ist und einen Zwischenstopp einlegt, um ihren viel älteren Bruder Kieth zu treffen, der sich in einem Priesterseminar befindet und kurz davor ist, Priester zu werden.

Der Segen - Kultige Story aus 'Flappers and Philosophers' 6

Anthony et Gloria, beaux, jeunes et doués, forment un couple obsédé par l'argent, prêt à tout pour recueillir la fortune de leur grand-père milliardaire, ancien «requin» de Wall Street. Dans l'atmosphère insouciante du New York de 1914, dans la frénésie de l'ivresse, la mélancolie des fêtes luxueuses, l'amour de ces deux jeunes «dieux», qui ressemblent étrangement à Fitzgerald et Zelda, se dégrade lentement... Deuxième roman de Fitzgerald, Beaux et damnés est l'histoire d'un couple à la dérive. Et le portrait mordant d'une société en proie aux mirages de la consommation.

Beaux et damnés

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

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

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

Publiée en 1922, la nouvelle Rêves d’hiver est un concentré de l’œuvre de Scott Fitzgerald. On y retrouve les relations binaires qui tourmentèrent l’imagination littéraire de l’écrivain : la pauvreté et la richesse, le passé et le présent, les illusions et les désillusions, l’attente et la nostalgie. Dexter Green, l’enfant pauvre qui devient un homme riche, anticipe la figure tragique de Gatsby, alors que Judy Jones évoque immanquablement Daisy, son amour impossible. Ces dernières correspondent au prototype des héroïnes de Fitzgerald, femmes fatales à l’existence dorée qu’on pourrait résumer au ton séducteur de leur voix "pleine d’argent" et à leur indifférence affichée aux conséquences de leurs actes. Rêves d’hiver explore une des faces cachées du rêve américain.

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