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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Evoking the mood of the American Twenties, and wealthy lives filled with excess and illusion, this is the story of Jay Gatsby's yearning for the beautiful Daisy.

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Please note this title can not be sold to customers in North America, due to copyright restrictions 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' 'F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was first published on April 10, 1925. Set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922, it is the story of an attractive young man, hopelessly in love, who, having worked so hard to imp...

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Psychological Theory of Reasoning, Showing the Relativity of Thought to the Thinker, of Recognition to Cognition, the Identity of Presentation and Representation, of PerceptionObject of t/ze Work - The object of this work has not been to present to the public a literary work as suck, but to elaborate the theory of the principles of thought or intuitive mental representation which...

Excerpt from Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston: On the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1896 Otis was a ¿ame of fire. With a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid sum mary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away eve...

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Philosophy of Self-Consciousness: Containing an Analysis of Reason and the Rationale of Love As the author is suffering from weakness of sight, is engaged in preparing other essays for publication, is in delicate health, and dreads any further delay in giving to the public what is felt to be an important truth, I am intrusted to prepare this essay for the press. What the important truth referred to is I give in th...

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Excerpt from The Beautiful and DamnedHis memories of the Boston Society Contralto were nebulous and musical. She was a lady who sang, sang, sang, in the music room of their house on Washington Square - sometimes with guests scattered all about her, the men with their arms folded, balanced breathlessly on the edges of sofas, the women with their hands in their laps, occasionally making little whispers to the men and always clapping very briskly...

Excerpt from This Side of Paradise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the origi...

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair"This story was Fitzgerald's fourth Saturday Evening Post story and provided the subject for the dust-jacket illustration when it was collected in Flappers and Philosophers. In the story, Bernice's long flowing hair is one of her greatest treasures. When her cousin Marjorie suggests she "bob" it, life changes for both of them. "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest work is generally thought to be The ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some amazing short stories--everything from romances to mind-boggling fantasies. This collection includes five of his most famous and most imaginative stories. They are: "The Offshore Pirate, " "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, " "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, " "Bernice Bobs Her Hair, " and "Head and Shoulders." This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpi...

Excerpt from Protest Against Agnosticism: The Rationale Philosophy of Belief The content of consciousness is thus seen to be the sense of Being, or feeling, the sense of relativity of Being, or of the identity of cause and effect, and the sense of the tendency of Being, or of spontaneous self determination in action, whilst the function of con sciousness is the recognition or perception of similare, the apprehension of causative relations, an...

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.

Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it's a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald's ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald's hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its prom...

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner-turned-New-York-bond sale...

Excerpt from Flappers and PhilosophersThe second half - lemon was well-nigh pulpless and the golden collar had grown astonishing in width, when suddenly the drowsy silence which enveloped the yacht was broken by the sound of heavy foot steps and an elderly man topped with orderly gray hair and clad in a white - fiannel suit appeared at the head of the companionway. There he paused for a moment until his eyes became accustomed to the sun, and t...

The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be understood, and conflict prevented, in the context of global economic and cultural forces