Scott Fitzgerald - Libros y biografía

Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid,...

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...

Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the “calendar blues.” But, as a friend advises, there isn’t time to drift into romance, so she must instead “pick out the best thing in sight…and...

When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship...

"Der Offshore-Pirat" ist eine Geschichte, die 1920 von F. Scott Fitzgerald geschrieben wurde. Es ist eine von acht Geschichten, die in Fitzgeralds erster veröffentlichter Sammlung "Flappers and Philosophers"...

Die modernistische Geschichte Der Eispalast ("The Ice Palace"), geschrieben von F. Scott Fitzgerald und veröffentlicht in The Saturday Evening Post, 22. Mai 1920 ist eine von acht Geschichten, die ursprünglich...

As the May Day Riots of 1919 are breaking out, a group of Yale alumni gather for a jazz dance, revealing the disparate backgrounds, existence, and expectations of the American upper and lower classes....

This collection, originally assembled by the author in 1922, features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most impressive and recognized pieces of short fiction. Divided into three parts, the tales are a diverse...

The bestselling Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, depth and ultimate destruction of love between...

Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams—to one day be as elite as the “old-money” families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once...

Beautiful and rebellious, young aristocrat Ardita Farnam finds herself at the mercy of pirates when her uncle’s yacht is taken over by musicians-turned-armed robbers, Curtis Carlyle and his Six Black...

“Head and Shoulders” is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarbox—the “head”—answers the door to Vaudeville star Marcia—the “shoulders.” Marcia’s performance is but the first step...

When Benjamin Button was born he had the appearance of seventy-year-old man, and he was already able to speak. Stunned, his parents nevertheless try to raise him as they would any normal baby. By the...

Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in...

Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in...

John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts,...

Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt’s house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she’s putting...

Sally Carrol is looking for a bigger life than the one she leads in her small-town home of Tarleton, Georgia. When she tells her friends about her engagement to a man from a Northern town, they are concerned...

Jim Powell can’t help but be defined as a “jelly-bean”—a man who spends his life in a state of idleness. Not particularly sociable and ill at ease around women, Jim decides to dedicate his life to his...

The Beautiful and Damned is the story of socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch, heirs presumptive to a fortune and fixtures of 1920s New York Café Society. Anthony and Gloria’s future is disrupted by Anthony’s...

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 experiment upon only...

"Kopf und Schultern" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von F. Scott Fitzgerald, die 1920 geschrieben und in der Saturday Evening Post veröffentlicht wurde. Später erschien sie in seiner Kurzgeschichtensammlung...

Bernices Bubikopf ("Bernice Bobs Her Hair") ist eine Geschichte von F. Scott Fitzgerald, die 1920 geschrieben und erstmals im Mai desselben Jahres in der Saturday Evening Post veröffentlicht wurde. Kurz...

Die Kristallglasschale ("The Cut-Glass Bowl") ist eine Geschichte des amerikanischen Autors F. Scott Fitzgerald, die erstmals in der Mai-Ausgabe 1920 des Scribner's Magazine veröffentlicht und später...

Der Segen ("Benediction") ist eine Geschichte des amerikanischen Autors F. Scott Fitzgerald, die erstmals 1920 in Fitzgeralds Geschichtensammlung Flappers and Philosophers veröffentlicht wurde. Sie erzählt...

Dalyrimple läuft unrund ("Dalyrimple Goes Wrong") ist eine Geschichte aus der Geschichtensammlung Flappers and Philosophers von F. Scott Fitzgerald über einen jungen Kriegsveteranen, der sich dem Verbrechen...

"Die vier Fäuste" ("The Four Fists") ist eine Erzählung aus F. Scott Fitzgeralds Buch "Flappers and Philosophers", das 1920 nach seinem Debütroman "This Side of Paradise" veröffentlicht wurde. Die Hauptfigur,...

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...

A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life. In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, de son nom complet Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, né le 24 septembre 1896 à Saint Paul (Minnesota) et mort le 21 décembre 1940 à Hollywood, est un écrivain américain. Chef de file...