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Allows today's reader to observe the development of Fitzgerald's great novel.

In this study the author challenges the theoretical underpinnings of Cuban studies - the elite/mass perspective. He offers a major reinterpretation of the revolutionary process which focuses on the rise and fall of different types of social actors at the intermediate level of Cuban society.

Even in its incomplete form, The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western has achieved a reputation as the best Hollywood novel. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the "unfinished novel" was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years that edition, which disguises the state of Fitzgerald's work in progress, has be...

This new critical edition brings into being an accurate, fully annotated text based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript.

The authorized text which restores all the language of Fitzgerald's 1920's classic story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper's historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that...

Scott Brandon has the assignment to uncover a plot with a war over the Big Bear oil fields that will draw him into the hellish past as a Vietnam Vet . Scott discovers one key man interconnects Washington and the war, Jacques Du Pries. To find him, Scott goes to Southeast Asia to see a mad Marine Lt. Colonel.Others, such as Sean Ryan and David Darrow are spurred on to fulfill their dreams as Marines.To pick up Du Pries' trail, Ernst is chosen b...

Fitzgerald's best known text brought to life with contemporary illustrations.

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The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 comedic short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They first appeared in Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, but in 1962 they were collected into a single book and published posthumously. Pat Hobby is a once successful screenwriter in Hollywood, but now an alcoholic and broke, who spends his time hanging around the studio, hoping for work. The stories generally revolve around him...

Taps at Reveille brings together a group of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best stories from the 1920s and 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', 'Babylon Revisited', and the previously unknown story 'Thank You for the Light', discovered among Fitzgerald's papers and published for the first time in The New Yorker in 2012.

The mysterious Jay Gatsby uses his fabulous wealth to create an enchanted world fit for his former love, Daisy Buchanan, now married to Tom. Daisy, though, is a romanticised figment of his own imagination, and the extraordinary world that he creates is equally illusory.He gives lavish, legendary, parties where the guests and gate-crashers enjoy free-flowing champagne and cocktails and carefree hospitality. It is easy for modern readers to forg...

First published in 1922, this was Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores New York café society during the Jazz Age as is widely considered to be based on Fitzgerald's own relationship with his wife Zelda.

CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable. These volumes are rich in historical content, yet remain relevant to canon lawyers today. Topics covered include such issues as abortion, excommu...

Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald series of lavishly produced editions with flaps and 4 b&w, plates, 'Babylon Revisited' is presented here with a selection of other tales published in the same period, such as 'Crazy Sunday' - an account of alcoholism and infidelity in Hollywood - which showcase the author at his creative best.

Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald series of lavishly produced editions with flaps and 4 b&w, plates, The Pat Hobby Stories offers a vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies.

Here are five stories from one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century: Head and Shoulders, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.

As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. As of the first session of the Conference of the Parties, 128 nations had ratified the Convention. Among their other c...