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Lasciami l'ultimo valzer" è l'unico romanzo che Zelda Fitzgerald abbia mai scritto. Ambientato tra l'Alabama, New York, la Francia e l'Italia, è la storia di Alabama Beggs, bella e anticonvenzionale fanciulla del Sud che sposa un artista, viaggia con lui in Europa e conduce una vita relativamente infelice, cercando di mettere alla prova i suoi tormentati talenti artistici. In gran parte dolorosamente autobiografico, il romanzo di Zelda racchiu...

A new edition of the classic short story collection, with an Art Deco cover.

For use in schools and libraries only. A young man, newly rich, tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she is married.

Excerpt from Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey: One Hundred and Ninth Session, 1885 His volume of the Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey has been carefully revised, remodeled, set in new type, and is printed on an extra quality of paper. An improvement has also been made in the binding. Its contents present an array of facts, data and statistics which are of great value and interest to every J erseyman. Among the additions will be ...

Hermosos y malditos" es un brillante y ácido retrato de la juventud americana de la alta sociedad durante la "edad del jazz". En una atmósfera de vertiginosa y atolondrada prosperidad, consecuencia de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el soñador, hipersensible, indeciso, irónico y altanero Anthony Patch, protagonista de la novela, su esposa Gloria y los personajes que los rodean se ven agitados por la rebeldía y la desintegración del orden tradiciona...

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FRANCES SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and educated at Princeton, where he was a leader in theatrical and literary activities. He began writing his first novel, This Side of Paradise, while serving in the army. Its public

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When the young and nave Rosemary Hoyt comes to the French Riviera in the 1920s she is bedazzled by the glamorous lifestyles of Dick and Nicole Diver and their high-society set. Yet, beneath this polished veneer, the lives of the Divers are fraught with complexity and anxiety. As their mysterious, problematic past resurfaces, the struggle to keep up appearances takes its toll, and their seemingly perfect lives begin to deteriorate with alarming...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced. What ramifications that creates for Benjamin's relationship with his father first and then later w...

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great G...

Amory Blaine ist begabt und privilegiert. Von der Mutter hat er die Überzeugung, zu Höherem geboren zu sein. Er studiert in Princeton, und nach etlichen Flirts begegnet er Rosalind, seiner ersten großen Liebe. Als sie ihn für einen anderen verlässt, zerschellen Amorys jugendliche Ideale. Was bleibt, ist der Alkohol - aber trotz aller Trauer und Enttäuschung auch die Erkenntnis, dass das Leben, so pathetisch und lächerlich es oft scheint, doch ...

The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest pieces of short fiction.

FICTION / Classics

Flappers and Philosophersmarked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself "a master of the mechanism of short-story technique" (Boston Transcript). Several of his most well-known tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "Head and Shoulders, " with their particularly O. Henrylike twists, the poignant "Benediction" and "The Cut-Glass ...

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A collection of short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald - including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language