Une vie parfaite suivi de L'accordeur

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

Seize nouvelles et textes autobiographiques qui résument à eux seuls la vie brillante et fertile en désastres du grand romancier américain des années vingt. On va ainsi des charmantes histoires d'adolescence dont le héros, Basil Duke Lee, ressemble fort au jeune Scott, à la sombre expérience de La fêlure, un texte à l'accent pascalien, plein d'ironie et de détresse, où Fitzgerald arrive même à écrire sur son impuissance d'écrire. Il pensait que sa vie, ses passions, ses souvenirs, ses malheurs devaient servir son œuvre, car il n'avait pas d'autre foi que la littérature. C'est pourquoi tout ce qu'il raconte, avec tant de charme, fait de lui un écrivain exemplaire.Basil. [1]. Basil. Une soirée à la foire --Il se croit merveilleux --Une vie parfaite --À la sueur de son front --Basil et Cléopâtre. [2]. Joséphine. Premier sang --Un coin bien tranquille --L'Accordeur --Trente-six mille dollars par an --Vivre de rien --"Conduisez M. et Mme F. au no..." --Un voyage à l'étranger --Veiller, dormir --L'après-midi d'un écrivain --La fêlure.

La fêlure

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

"S'il faut dire la vérité, Jay Gatsby, de West Egg, Long Island, naquit de la conception platonicienne qu'il avait de lui-même. Il était fils de Dieu - expression qui ne signifie peut-être rien d'autre que cela - et il lui incombait de s'occuper des affaires de Son Père, de servir une beauté immense, vulgaire, clinquante. Aussi inventa-t-il la seule sorte de Jay Gatsby qu'un garçon de dix-sept ans était susceptible d'inventer, et il demeura fidèle à cette conception jusqu'à la fin.Le chef-d'œuvre de F. Scott Fitzgerald paraît ici dans une traduction inédite de Philippe Jaworski.

Gatsby le magnifique

"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

Quelques semaines après la sortie de Gatsby le magnifique, F Scott Fitzgerald entreprend de rassembler les neuf nouvelles qui constituent ce recueil. Les thèmes qu'il aborde alors sont récurrents dans son oeuvre : les problèmes de couple, le jeune homme pauvre et la jeune fille riche, la construction de la personnalité, les rapports entre l'argent et l'amour. Mais l'approche de ces personnages est sensiblement différente de ses précédents textes. La coquette épouse frivole, la vamp ne règnent plus sur la scène mondaine et domestique du théâtre fitzgéraldien. Dans le couple constitué ou en voie de formation, c'est l'homme désormais qui détient le pouvoir et détermine le cours des choses, usant de vertus simples mais efficaces : la candeur, la sincérité du sentiment, le bon sens, la bonté ou encore la fidélité. Dans les histoires de ce recueil, ces attributs suffisent à venir à bout, sans violence, des égoïsmes les plus ravageurs des jolies jeunes femmes comme des aléas du destin.

Tous les jeunes gens tristes

Lettres à Zelda et autres correspondances

"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.

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