Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Presents the title story about the curious case of a baby, born in 1860, who begins life as an old man and who proceeds to age backward, accompanied by twenty-four other stories set against the backdrop of Jazz Age America.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories

Pubblicato nel 1934 dopo quasi dieci di stesure e diverse rielaborazioni, il romanzo conobbe una strana vicenda editoriale. Fitzgerald difatti, convinto di avere commesso un errore strutturale, raccontando “il vero inizio” retrospettivamente, decise di rimettere mano alla struttura del libro, riordinando gli eventi in senso cronologico sulla sua copia cartacea. Pur pubblicata nel 1948, questa versione sarebbe stata in seguito dichiarata “apocrifa”, per infine ritornare alla versione del 1934. Il libro, come un grande affresco, abbonda di episodi e personaggi, ma ha al centro la vicenda di corruzione morale dei coniugi Diver. Lui, Dick, psichiatra, incontra nel corso della sua attività clinica una giovane donna, Nicole Warren, sofferente di manie di persecuzione per aver avuto rapporti incestuosi con il padre. Nonostante il parere contrario di molti suoi colleghi, decide di sposarla, ripromettendosi di “restaurarle l’universo”. Passano alcuni anni, lui, godendo della ricchezza della moglie, progressivamente perde interesse per la sua attività professionale. Si ritrovano sulla Costa azzurra assieme a una strana coorte di personaggi, alcuni dei quali innamorati della donna. Tra questi una giovane interessata invece a Dick, Rosemary. Sarà la “storia” che fa precipitare il precario equilibrio della coppia. Un libro bellissimo in cui i grandi temi di Fitzgerald: la felicità, lo spreco, il fascino, il danaro trovano il loro scenario più adatto, in un contesto linguistico fastoso e spettrale.

Tenera è la notte

Czuła jest noc

José Luis López Muñoz

Hermosos y malditos

John Dos Passos

Arthur Mizener

Autoportrait sarcastique et tendre à la fois d'un scénariste confronté au réalisme brutal des nababs de Hollywood... (le monde du cinéma).

Histoires de Pat Hobby

The best writing to come from the pen of Fitzgerald. "I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." -F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." -F. Scott Fitzgerald. "One of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century." - Financial Times. Tender is the Night displays Fitzgerald's astonishing descriptive powers and being fraught with emotion it holds the reader in intense psychological tension. It delves into similar themes as his other novels, is similarly autobiographical, but is set in the south of France. Fitzgerald considered Tender is the Night to be his best work. This edition, set in a large 11 point font, will be a pleasure to read. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century American novelists. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. His works feature towards the top of any list of the best novels. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner "The Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since."

Tender is the Night

Blake Hazard

romance gráfico

O grande Gatsby

گتسبى بزرگ

Tendre est la nuit, largement autobiographique, est l'histoire d'un être fait pour être aimé, trop romantique pour pouvoir résister à son époque, trop tendre, malgré son apparente désinvolture, pour savoir sagement vieillir. C'est plus particulièrement l'histoire de l'amour de Dick et de Nicole, dont nous faisons connaissance à travers les yeux émerveillés d'une jeune actrice qui ne résiste pas au charme de Dick. Ce couple très uni cache un secret. Nicole a été soignée par Dicl, médecin psychiatre. L'amour qu'elle a porté à Dick a fait de leur union une nécessité. Un jour viendra pourtant où il devront se séparer... Mais le lecteur aura vécu avec eux les plus belles années d'une vie de loisir rendue magique par la richesse, les voyages. C'est un extraordinaire témoignage sur la vie d'entre les deux guerres qui nous est offert, un témoignage qui ne va pas sans une douloureuse nostalgie, un livre ensorcelé. Ce roman domine, avec Gatsby le Magnifique, l'œuvre de F. Scott Fitzgerald, l'émouvant représentant de la fameuse " génération perdue ".

Tendre est la nuit

A collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

A Selection of 28 Stories

The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michal Prokop

Velký Gatsby

Széles körben ajánlható beszerzésre, nemcsak Fitzgerald-rajongóknak. "www.kello.hu © minden jog fenntartva"

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.

The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald

James Joyce

Charles Dickens

Virginia Woolf

Jack London

H.G. Wells

Daniel Defoe

Alexandre Dumas

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oscar Wilde

Friedrich Nietzsche

H.P. Lovecraft

Charles Darwin

Marcel Proust

G.K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

Frances Hodgson Burnett

William Shakespeare

E. M. Forster

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lewis Carroll

Edgar Allan Poe

Jules Verne

Sigmund Freud

Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy

Louisa May Alcott

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert William Chambers

Wilkie Collins

J.M. Barrie

Andrew Lang

Vatsyayana

Margaret Deland

B. M. Bower

William Strunk Jr.

Hermann Hesse

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins] - On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] - Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe] - The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland] - David Copperfield [Charles Dickens] - Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens] - A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens] - The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky] - The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] - A Room with a View [E. M. Forster] - Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud] - Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy] - Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse] - Dubliners [James Joyce] - The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang] - The Sea Wolf [Jack London] - The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] - Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery] - Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche] - The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe] - Swann's Way [Marcel Proust] - Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare] - Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson] - The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.] - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain] - The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain] - The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana] - A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne] - The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne] - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne] - The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells] - The Time Machine [H. G. Wells] - The Star [H.G Wells] - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde - The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (2024 Edition)

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby---young, handsome, and fabulously rich---always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

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