F. Scott Fitzgerald
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English
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Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth. But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant,...
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English
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"Set in Hollywood in the 1930s, The Last Tycoon tells the tragic story of a young film producer named Monroe Stahr. Exploring themes of ambition, power, and corruption, The Last Tycoon depicts Stahr's struggle to balance his personal life and professional goals with the challenges of running a successful movie studio. Based on the career of real-life producer Irving Thalberg, the head of MGM who was known as Hollywood's "boy wonder", The Last Tycoon...
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English
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"Head and Shoulders", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "The Ice Palace", "The Offshore Pirate", "May Day", "The Jelly-Bean", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Winter Dreams", "Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar", "Absolution", "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les", "The Sensible Thing", "Love in the Night", "The Rich Boy", "Jacob's Ladder", "A Short Trip Home", "The Bowl", "The Captured Shadow", "Basil and Cleopatra",...
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Publisher
Wordsworth Editionss
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
606 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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This side of Paradise tells the story of Anthony Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure.
The Beautiful and damned is a bleaker version of the corrosive power of wealth and its privileges. Anthony Patch is heir to a huge fortune, but his marriage to the beautiful and...
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English
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The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby
In the title story of this collection by one of America’s greatest writers, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era “a generation grown up to find all...
In the title story of this collection by one of America’s greatest writers, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era “a generation grown up to find all...
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Scribner
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English
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"On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel."--Back cover.
"Now available in a beautifully designed collector's edition, this modern classic set in the South of France after World War I is the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable patient who becomes his wife. Set in the south of France in the late...
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Scribner
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English
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"For a writer whose productive career lasted only twenty years and whose energy was prodigally expended on other things than writing, Scott Fitzgerald wrote an astonishing amount. Of the more than one hundred and fifty short stories he wrote during those twenty years, only about a quarter were collected during his lifetime; a few new ones were put together when Malcolm Cowley's selection was published by Scribner's in 1951. Of Fitzgerald's thirty...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
223 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Known not only for his brilliant novels bur also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as...
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Library of America volume 117
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1082 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
