Bøger af F. Scott Fitzgerald

For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To F. Scott Fitzgerald's bemused narrator, Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have emerged out of nowhere, evading questions about his murky past and throwing dazzling parties at his luxurious mansion. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing in the intensity of his new neighbor's ambition, and his fascination grows when he discovers that Gatsby is obsessed by a long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. But Daisy and her wealthy husband are cynical and careless people, and as Gatsby's dream collides with reality, Nick is witness to the violence and tragedy that result. The Great Gatsby's remarkable staying power is owed to the lyrical freshness of its storytelling and to the way it illuminates the hollow core of the glittering American dream.With a new introduction by John Grisham.

A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020sA Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionYoung, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party never seems to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay.A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream.

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Als F. Scott Fitzgeralds famoser Roman 'The Great Gatsby' 1925 erschien, erntete sein Autor von zahlreichen Schriftstellerkollegen hymnische Kritiken, doch erst die Nachkriegsjahrzehnte bescherten seinem Meisterwerk die weltweite Anerkennung, die es verdient. Ergreifend und mit subtiler Finesse erzählt Fitzgerald die Geschichte des schillernden Emporkömmlings Jay Gatsby, der auf seinem Anwesen rauschende Feste feiert, um seine einst verlorene Liebe zurückzugewinnen - eine Geschichte über die Macht großer Gefühle und das schmerzhafte Scheitern eines romantischen Traums. Diese Ausgabe präsentiert den grandiosen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe Englisch und Deutsch.

Cuando todo es perfecto, ¿qué puede salir mal? Dick y Nicole lo tienen todo: son ricos, inteligentes y elegantes. Viajan a la Riviera francesa, epicentro de la clase alta mundial. Pero tras tan imponente carta de presentación se esconden secretos y debilidades que acaban convirtiéndose en un caballo desbocado imposible de domar, haciendo que la perfección de Dick y Nicole no sea más que un espejismo.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald nació en 1896 en Estados Unidos el seno de una familia católica irlandesa. Estudió en la prestigiosa universidad de Princeton, aunque no llegó a graduarse. Con el estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial se alistó en el ejército. Fue el máximo exponente de los gloriosos años veinte y testigo del esplendor de París durante dicha década. Su obra más célebre es «El gran Gatsby».

A este lado del paraíso es la ópera prima del autor F. Scott Fitzgerald. Se centra en la psicología de Armory Blane, estudiante adinerado de la universidad de Princeton, durante la Gran Guerra. Sus preocupaciones, obsesiones y desengaños amorosos le servirán al autor para hacer una profunda reflexión sobre su generación.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Francis Scott Fitzgerald fue un autor nacido en Saint Paul (Minesota, Estados Unidos) en 1896 y fallecido en Hollywood (California, Estados Unidos) en 1940. Es autor de obras capitales de la literatura americana contemporánea, como El gran Gatsby o Suave es la noche, que lo han colocado en una posición privilegiada entre los mejores narradores americanos de la historia.

Den store Gatsby är ansedd som en av tidernas mest framstående romaner och skildrar det flådiga livet på Long Island under det glada tjugotalet. Romanen kretsar kring den mystiska miljonären Jay Gatsby och hans besatthet av den vackra Daisy Buchanan. Men vad döljer sig bakom hans överdådiga fester, den strida strömmen av alkohol och jazzmusiken? Kasta dig in jazzålderns glamorösa leverne och ta reda på det själv. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) är en av 1900-talets främsta amerikanska författare och har bland annat skrivit de klassiska romanerna Den store Gatsby och Natten är ljuv. Scott Fitzgerald satte i sina verk tonen för 1920-talets "Jazz Age", som han och hans fru Zelda var en viktig del av.

NOT FOR SALE IN THE U.S. An oddity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's career, his play 'The Vegetable' was a satirical attack on the presidency of Warren Harding. An ordinary, incompetent man, taunted for his lack of ambition by his family, realises his dream of ruling the United States of America. One biographer described it as "inspired by the pervasive stupidity, gross cronyism and rampant corruption [of the] administration of the philistine president". With appalling timing, the play was first staged just after Harding's sudden death, when the mood of national mourning meant that few were ready for a savage indictment of the dead president. It closed after one week. Bootleggers, political machinations, romance and a man on the run combine in this bizarre story from the side of of Fitzgerald which wrote 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Out of print for decades, The Vegetable is a strange and significant work by one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers.

Fitzgerald's beloved account of the devastating costs of the American dream gets a fittingly gorgeous update in this high-end art-book edition, elaborately decorated by the famed Italian illustrators known at the Balbusso Twins. Featuring more than fifty full color illustrations that combine jazz age decadence with a sleek, almost futuristic sensibility, this elegantly designed volume brings the roaring twenties straight into the 2020s. Anna and Elena Balbusso are celebrated graphic artists with over 80 international awards to their name. They specialize in literary illustration, with several works for The Folio Society including their much-lauded take on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. They continue their string of stunning illustrated editions of literary classics with an American classic that remains potent and relevant for today's economic divide. Whether you're a fan of classic literature, a lover of beautiful illustration and design, or a collector of exceptionally gorgeous books, this edition will please the eye as much as Fitzgerald's story challenges the status quo.

Long regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby expresses many of the central themes of the American myth: romance, love, the quest for wealth and status, loneliness, and corruption.The novel follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious self-made man, in his desperate quest for the love of the beguiling Daisy Buchanan-and for a place in the highest ranks of society. Gatsby's fate reflects the emptiness and disappointment that come from his search.First published in 1925, Gatsby is regarded as the epitome of the spirit of the Roaring Twenties: the fast life, new wealth, and a glamour and a frivolity that prove to be hollow. Fitzgerald's genius portrays this world with humor, insight, and the profound sympathy that is the hallmark of all great fiction.F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century. His works include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and Tender Is the Night. The Great Gatsby is by far his best-known and most beloved novel.

F. Scott Fitzgeralds store roman om New Yorker-liv i årene omkring første verdenskrig.Anthony Patch og Gloria Gilbert lever det søde overklasseliv med fester, lediggang og drømmerier. Mens deres venner begynder at tage livet alvorligt og gøre karriere, flyder det smukke par sorgløst af sted i forventningen om en kolossal arv fra Anthonys bedstefar. Men da denne lader vente på sig, begynder problemerne at melde sig – og mens festerne fortsætter, er de to unge godt på vej til at miste kontrollen over deres liv."De smukke og fortabte" er en grum, satirisk fortælling om mennesker, som har alle muligheder, men som ikke formår at tage ansvar for deres eget liv. En rystende og forbløffende aktuel roman om en generation, som ikke kan blive voksen.romanen "På denne side af Paradis". Med denne roman etablerede Fitzgerald sig i 1920 som sin tids stemme, og bogens hovedperson, Amory Blaine, blev identifikationsfigur for generationen i den amerikanske mellemkrigstid, som Fitzgerald døbte "Jazz Age". F. Scott Fitzgerald udgav et væld af noveller og fire romaner, hvoraf "Den stor Gatsby" mere end nogen anden har skaffet ham en plads som en af USA’s største forfattere nogensinde.

What happens when love is warped by greed and status seeking? This a look into contemporary American adolescence and young manhood."e;This Side of Paradise"e; is the first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, exploring the difficult lives and values of the American youth after the First World War. It is written in a semi-autobiographical tone, presenting the handsome and idealistic student Amory Blaine, coming from a well-to-do family. The narrative strictly follows his ups and downs, love episodes, and interior life in such a way as to use him as a symbol of a whole generation. It is the novel that skyrocketed Fitzgerald's fame and made possible his marriage to Zelda. An extremely lyrical and passionate tale, "e;This Side of Paradise"e; is a must-read for fans and scholars of Fitzgerald and American literature.-

Known today primarily as the author of "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections, "Flappers and Philosophers" and "Tales of the Jazz Age", came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines. He portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.

'This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his ideas a fair trial.' Fitzgerald's thought-provoking tale, 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON' is a fantastical satire about aging. It is the strange and haunting story of Benjamin Button who is born as an old man and ages backwards so that at the beginning of his life he is an old man and at the end of his life he is a baby.

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author ofThe 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 Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this Lost Generation been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

Josephine Perry, tenía la estatura perfecta para sus diecisiete años y una belleza que florecía maravillosamente. Sin embargo, a pesar de su juventud, ha vivido demasiado y no ha sido sensata con el manejo de su capital emocional. Cuando conoce al joven aviador francés, héroe de guerra, todo parece perfecto, pero cuando se besan ella no siente nada. Vuelven a besarse y nada, otra vez. Herido en su orgullo, el héroe francés, se marcha para siempre. Josephine, angustiada y cansada, era terriblemente consciente de que las frases hechas son verdad: nadie puede gastar y poseer a la vez. Había tenido al amor de su vida al alcance de la mano, pero no encontró nada para ofrecerle...Este cuento es uno de los más célebres de Fitzgerald donde trata sobre las ambiciones de la juventud, el miedo al fracaso, las diversas y dolorosas maneras de desperdiciar una vida, las relaciones amorosas, el desamor, la soledad y lo irrecuperable.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) fue un escritor estadounidense, conocido por ser uno de los escritores más aclamados del país durante el siglo XX, cuya obra es paradigmática a la era del jazz.