F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard's exquisite graphic novel--among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraways unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise.
A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
'The love of the last tycoon' was left in draft form at the time of Fitzgerald's death. After these notes were edited by the literary critic Edmund Wilson, the novel was published in 1941 as 'The last tycoon'. It is inspired by the life of film producer Irving Thalberg, on whom its protagonist Monroe Stahr was based. The story follows Stahr's rise to power in Hollywood, and his conflicts with rival Pat Brady, a fictionalised Louis B. Mayer. This is...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Known not only for his brilliant novels buT also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 117
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1,082 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a Hollywood producer who finds himself not only struggling to find love and success in a world of cut-throats, but who is in the ultimate struggle for his own life. The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's final work, a novel he was working on at the time of his death. The novel was published after editing by fellow writer and friend, Edmund Wilson, with the aid of Fitzgerald's notes and outlines. The...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 427 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the title story about the curious case of a baby, born in 1860, who begins life as an old man and who proceeds to age backward, accompanied by eighteen other stories set against the backdrop of Jazz Age America.
12) El gran Gatsby
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, el anfitrión de las noches sin tregua, pero también el triunfador marcado por el trágico sino de una soledad no pretendida, es el arquetipo de esos años veinte que se iniciaron con la Prohibición y discurrieron en el gangsterismo y la corrupción política organizada. Protagonista de una década que culminaría con la catástrofe de 1929, su imagen de esplendor no hace sino anunciar un drama...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
537 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned explores the world of America's upper class during World War I and the beginning of the Jazz Age. Loosely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda, the novel centers around Anthony Patch, a young East Coast socialite who is heir to his grandfather's fortune and lacks motivation to pursue a meaningful career. In his attempt to find his place in society while waiting for his inheritance,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xiii, 204 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A revelatory anthology of 19 personal essays and articles by the 20th-century literary master spans his career and includes a 1920 article written shortly after This Side of Paradise made him famous and a 1940 assessment of the times in which he lived.
