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Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive...
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned,...
Il romanzo esce nel 1920 e provoca subito scalpore. Siamo all'indomani della Prima Guerra Mondiale. La società sta cambiando, una nuova generazione sale alla ribalta e Francis Scott Fitzgerald è pronto...
Un viaggio compiuto da Fitzgerald con la moglie Zelda si trasforma, in questo testo precursore di tutta la letteratura "on the road", in un'avventura travolgente. Il loro intento è quello di fare una...
Un mondo giovane che vuole sottrarsi alle regole della tradizione nella sfavillante “età del jazz” è protagonista di questa raccolta di racconti pubblicati nel 1920 sulla scia del grande successo di Di...
The Great Gatsby is a tormenting love story, the pursuit of an impossible dream, a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel is a great portrait of the so-called “Jazz Age”. The past in not repeatable:...
Raconté par un voisin devenu son ami, le roman tourne autour du personnage de Gatsby, jeune millionnaire charmant au passé trouble qui vit luxueusement dans une villa toujours pleine d'invités. Par certains...
Dans le Long Island des années vingt, la fête est bruyante et la boisson abondante. Surtout chez Jay Gatsby. Aventurier au passé obscur, artiste remarquable par sa capacité à se créer un personnage de...
The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest. Who serves as the novel's narrator.Takes a job in New York...
This Side of Paradise is a novel that influenced an entire American generation, and not only. Published in 1920, it represents very well the young people that lived between the two World Wars. The age...
Nel mondo fastoso e frivolo degli anni Venti Jay Gatsby consuma il sogno americano di quegli ‘anni ruggenti’ tra jazz e champagne, feste favolose in ville mozzafiato, truffatori colossali e signore sempre...
La storia è tra le più famose della letteratura mondiale, riportata all'attualità dal grande successo del film del 2008 interpretato da Brad Pitt. Nel 1860, in un giorno d'estate, Benjamin Button viene...
Tra tutte le opere di Fitzgerald, questa è probabilmente la più ambiziosa, sofferta e tormentata. Gli ci vollero infatti nove anni per completare questo romanzo, del quale non fu completamente soddisfatto...
C'est en vain qu'à deux reprises Scott Fitzgerald proposa à son éditeur et ami Maxwell Perkins de réunir en volume un certain nombre de ses écrits personnels. Le petit nombre de ceux qui furent publiés...
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the...
All night in the Pullman it was very cold. She rang for the porter to ask for another blanket, and when he couldn't give her one she tried vainly, by squeezing down into the bottom of her berth and doubling...
Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January and April 1934 in four...
Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine...
In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Prince-ton University and received the Grade A—excellent—in Cæsar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer,...
There's little comfort in the wise. Rupert Brooke. Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde / To SIGOURNEY FAY Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except...
SOME of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was...
The Great Gatsby is one of the most recognized texts by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, considered a classic of American literature, whose exquisite work maintains all its relevance and freshness. Gatsby,...
This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published...
From the visionary genius of Francis Scott Fitzgerald comes this extraordinary story of madness and wonder, dealing with the blurred boundaries between reality and illusion. In the heart of New Orleans,...
'Flappers' is an obsolete term now, but in the 1920s it designated the young women with masculine haircuts who were the protagonists of the first feminine revolution. Daughters of an America that was...
The Jazz Age: lights, parties, beautiful cars and cocktail dresses, but behind the tenderness of the night lies its darkness, its harshness, the sense of loneliness. Young Nick Carraway moves to New York...
Young Dexter Green falls in love, while still a teenager, with a rich and beautiful maiden, Judy Jones. He attends a famous university, plays golf on the courses of St. Paul, becomes a prominent businessman...
The Beautiful and Damned is the story of a couple and their gradual moral decay. Anthony, a handsome and bored young man, orphaned of both mother and father, who after a degree from Harvard spends a few...
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