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Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, these essays present a middle-aged Fitzgerald looking back on the era he came to epitomize. This book of five confessional essays from the 1930s follows Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda from the height of their celebrity as the darlings of the 1920s to years of rapid decline leading to the self-proclaimed "Crack Up" in 1936. The poetics of Fitzgerald's style are not lost in nonfiction, and these p...

A gripping morality tale, a meditation on love and money, and an acute social statement, The Beautiful and the Damned is a semi-autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy and despair. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent. As with all of Fitzgerald's other novels, it is a brilliant character study and ...

Born with the appearance of a 70-year-old man, Benjamin Button grows physically younger with each passing year, until, in the end . . . Well, you'll just have to read it for yourself. A masterful story from the master storyteller of the Jazz Age. The author wrote, "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 ex...

This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, " in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally vanishes from the earth.

Scholarly edition of Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories and other previously uncollected stories.

This work is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, the book examines the days and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a striking Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has the book's theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. The work is written in three parts. "Book One: The Romantic Egotist" outlines Blaine's time at Princeton and the rejection by his love Isab...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' is F. Scott Fitzgerald's 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 end of his life he is a baby.

This early collection of short stories, originally published in 1922, is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. The author, Francis Scott Fitzgerald numbers among the best regarded writers of the twentieth century and is most famous for his celebrated novel The Great Gatsby. A fascinating read from the Jazz Age that artfully conjures up the atmosphere of the 1920s flapper generation. Contents Include: The Jelly-Bean, The Camel's...

This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby series. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs and includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings.

This morality tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a devastating satire of the nouveaux riches and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, and a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth.

Dick y Nicole Diver, una pareja norteamericana, llega a la Riviera francesa en los años en que allí se citaba la beautiful people de todo el mundo. Son ricos, inteligentes, elegantes, irresistiblemente atractivos. Pero hay algo que no es perfecto. Nicole tiene un secreto, Dick una debilidad, y juntos se dirigen irremediablemente hacia las rocas contra las que su aventura puede estrellarse. Suave es la noche es una de la mejores novelas de Fran...

Published in 1920, Fitzgerald's classic first novel about an eager, aimless youth who comes of age during World War I includes a Modern Library Reader's Guide along with commentaries by noted authors.

An authoritative edition of these stories from 1928 36, with a critical introduction, full textual apparatus and explanatory notes.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" - Americans born in the 1890's who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories. The 1920's proved the most influential decade of Fi...

The latest volume in this critically acclaimed scholarly edition.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" - Americans born in the 1890's who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories. The 1920's proved the most influential decade of Fi...

Das berühmte Sittengemälde der Roaring Twenties in Amerika.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" - Americans born in the 1890's who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories. The 1920's proved the most influential decade of Fi...

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