Bøger af F. Scott Fitzgerald

A bestselling stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel.

The Cut-glass Bowl and Other Stories is an adapted Upper level reader written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Five interesting short stories set in America in the 1920s and 1940s. The stories include 'Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'Gretchen's Forty Winks', 'Magnetism' and 'Three Hours Between Planes'.

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald's final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

This volume in the authoritative critical edition of Fitzgerald's works reproduces his second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age, together with several uncollected stories from the early 1920s. This edition includes a full record of variants, tracing Fitzgerald's extensive revisions, detailed historical notes, references and glosses.

Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. This book presents a collection of correspondence between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald originally submitted the novel as Trimalchio, and virtually rewrote it at galley-proof stage, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby.

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world.

Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgerald's intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, "Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safe-when he cuts himself, you will bleed."Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dick draws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerous path where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite, lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his own life; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shattered idealism and broken dreams.

Though most widely known for the novella "The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. This work includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history.

Den store Gatsby anses for et af amerikansk litteraturs hovedværker og er et fuldendt og indsigtsfuldt portræt af overklassemiljøet i de brølende 20’ere. Gennem fortælleren Nick Carraway bliver man taget med til det overfladiske, glitrende liv i palæerne langs Long Islands kyst i 1920’erne. Her bor den mystiske hovedperson Jay Gatsby, der er kendt for sine vilde, overdådige fester for hundredvis af mennesker. Alligevel er der ikke rigtig nogen, der kender ham eller ved, hvor hans formue stammer fra. Rygterne om ham er mange – er han krigshelt, spritsmugler, tysk spion eller måske Kejser Wilhelms nevø? Alle folk higer efter en invitation til en af hans ekstravagante fester, men Gatsby ænser dem ikke. Han bekymrer sig kun om én person – den legendariske skønhed Daisy Buchanan, som er hans ungdomskærlighed, og som han vil gøre alt for at vinde tilbage.”Den store Gatsby er en lille roman, kun 188 sider, men dens format er uendeligt, dels som uforløst kærlighedshistorie, dels som identitetsmysterium, dels som et kritisk tidsportræt, og dels som en kriminalistisk fortælling med et gennemtænkt mesterplot. Alle, der følger med i tv-kultserier som Boardwalk Empire om forbudstidens USA eller Mad Men om den mystiske reklamemand og identitetstyv Don Draper i 50’erne og 60’erne, må nødvendigvis (gen)læse Den store Gatsby fra jazztiden. Serierne står på alle måder i dyb gæld til romanen, ja de kunne næppe være udviklet, hvis ikke F. Scott Fitzgerald havde lagt hovedsporet ud i forvejen.” – Klaus Rothstein, Weekendavisen”Den store Gatsby bør være obligatorisk læsning på alle skrivekurser inklusive forfatterskolen, hvis man vil have et klart indblik i, hvor snedigt en roman kan konstrueres og hvor få armsving og eksperimentelle gebærder, der skal til for at føre litteraturen videre.” – Klaus Rifbjerg, Information”Denne Scott Fitzgeralds bedste roman er også en af de helt store i amerikansk litteratur, skrevet i den prosa, som skulle udvikle sig til den hårdkogte, og som indrammer de blødeste og ømmeste følelser.” – Thomas Bredsdorff, Politiken

Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, `Bernice Bobs Her Hair‘ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald‘s first short story collection. In another, `The Off-Shore Pirate‘, a girl gets captured by pirates and falls in love with the captain. It was adapted into a romantic comedy and starred silent movie actress Viola Dana. `Flappers and Philosophers‘ (1920) are tales about young dreamers whose dreams get broken, tales which perfectly encompass thezeitgeist of the 1920s.F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and author of the classics `Tender is the Night‘ and `The Great Gatsby‘. His writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and wife Zelda Fitzgerald were in the centre of.

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy in Tender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald – forfatteren til Den store Gatsby - er en af mellemkrigstidens markante romanforfattere, men også en af det 20. århundredes store amerikanske novellister, der bedre end nogen andre fanger jazztidens hidsige puls med de pludselige omslag og dramaet under overfladen. Denne bog præsenterer 11 af hans bedste noveller - udvalgt, oversat og med forord af Hans Hertel. Det er fortællinger fra de brølende 20’ere med hektisk livsudfoldelse, smukke sydstatspiger og rastløse sjæle på jagt efter succes og evig ungdom. Og det er beretninger fra 30’ernes kriseår, tømmermændenes tid, da vemoden og rodløsheden blev til tragedie og eftertænksom smerte. Novellen "Det sære tilfælde Benjamin Button", som fik en renæssance med David Finchers storfilm fra 2008, foreligger her for første gang på dansk. Udvalget præsenterer også den posthume kortnovelle "Tak for ilden", der blev trykt – for første gang - i The New Yorker i 2012.