F. Scott Fitzgerald
Filtruj po kategorii
Filtruj po formacie
Filtruj po cenie
Liczba pozycji: 10
Powieść sławnego prozaika F. Scotta Fitzgeralda, który ukazywał życie amerykańskiej socjety w latach dwudziestych i trzydziestych XX wieku: bogactwo i utracjuszostwo, namiętności, miłości, romanse i zdrady, zabawy i przyjęcia, ale także nałogi, intrygi i konflikty. Bohaterami są psychiatra Dick Diver i jego żona Nicole, która choruje na schizofrenię. Para wraz z dwójką dzieci spędza lato 1925 roku...Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- The definite collection of Fitzgerald’s short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author’s fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. This essential collection is ample testament to that statement,...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- „Taps at Reveille” (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935 and dedicated to Fitzgerald’s agent Harold Ober. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including „Crazy Sunday”, and „Babylon Revisited”, a story considered...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Entertainingly artless and insensitive; by turns lazy and scheming, Hobby keeps his head just above water as the decades leave silent film behind. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of 17 humorous...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather’s fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- „The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. The story follows the enigmatic and mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby as he chases the object of his hopeless desire, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The result is a chronicle of the drama and deceit that swirl around the lives of the wealthy, which cemented Fitzgerals’s reputation as the voice of his generation....
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, „Tales of the Jazz Age” includes two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s better-known short stories, „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald’s own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection of early 11 short stories shows a comic genius at...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel „This Side of Paradise”, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three, „Flappers and Philosophers” was the author’s first iconic collection of short fiction. In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
- „All the Sad Young Men” is a collection of nine short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes two of his most famous – the beautifully elegiac „The Rich Boy” and „Winter Dreams” which feature wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – who struggle to come to terms with lost love. As with his other collections, its release was timed to...
Data dostępności:
Data publikacji:
Filtruj wyniki wyszukiwania
Filtruj po języku
Filtruj po formacie
Filtruj po cenie
Kontakt
Z naszymi konsultantami możesz skontaktować się od poniedziałku do piątku w godzinach 9:00-17:00.