«"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

When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don't go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides to drown his sorrows and soon ends up attending the same costume party as Betty, dressed in an elaborate camel costume."The Camel's Back" was published in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age, and, according to the author, was written so that he could earn enough money to buy a new diamond wristwatch. 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 Camel's Back - 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

"First you take a drink, " F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush - with quite a hangover.

On Booze

Der junge amerikanische Nervenarzt und Wissenschaftler Richard ( »Dick« ) Diver kümmert sich intensiv um seine Patientin Nicole. Aus dem starken Engagement wird Zuneigung, aus der Zuneigung Liebe. Nicole und Dick heiraten und ziehen an die französische Riviera, wo sich ein Kreis snobistischer Exilamerikaner angesiedelt hat. Die Atmosphäre der High Society tut Dick nicht gut: Seine Schaffenskraft versiegt. Nicole und Dick entfremden sich zunehmend. Dick sucht nach einem Neuanfang. Er nimmt den Vorschlag eines Kollegen an, in der Schweiz gemeinsam eine Nervenklinik zu führen. Um sich in die Klinik einzukaufen, begibt sich Dick in finanzielle Abhängigkeit von Nicoles Schwester. Diese hofft, Dick dadurch weiter an ihre Schwester Nicole zu binden. Doch Dick spürt, dass er nicht mehr frei ist. Er sucht nach einem Ausweg. 

Der Roman »Zärtlich ist die Nacht« von F. Scott Fitzgerald, der psychologisch subtil die destruktiven Auswirkungen von Reichtum und Sinnverlust darstellt, erschien erstmals 1934. Er wurde mehrfach verfilmt. »Zärtlich ist die Nacht« (engl. Originaltitel: Tender is the night) enthält zahlreiche Parallelen zu F. Scott Fitzgeralds eigenem Leben (1896-1940). Auch Fitzgerald, der Erfolgsautor des Romans »Der große Gatsby« . führte ein aufwendiges Leben in den USA und Frankreich.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht

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

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

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

Un amant éconduit a offert à la ravissante Evie Piper « un présent aussi dur, aussi beau, aussi vide, aussi transparent » qu'elle, une coupe en cristal taillé. Mais quelle étrange malédiction pèse sur cette coupe ?Merlin Grainger, un libraire new-yorkais, est envoûté par une jeune femme « aux cheveux roux ombrés de violet » qui semble toujours surgir aux moments importants de sa vie pour semer le trouble. Qui est-elle vraiment ? Le fantôme d'une vie rêvée ?

Le diamant gros comme le Ritz

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