Short Stories Scott Fitzgerald - Couverture rigide

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 035619678X ISBN 13 : 9780356196787

Editeur : Little, Brown, 1991

Synopsis

A collection of 43 short stories by the author of "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night". The text contains tales such as "May Day" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Short Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his best known), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair.

Contents

Table of Contents

1.            Winter Dreams

2.            Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar

3.            Gretchen’s Forty Winks

4.            Absolution

5.            Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les

6.            “The Sensible Thing”

7.            The Baby Party

8.            Love in the Night

9.            The Rich Boy

10.         Jacob’s Ladder

11.         A Short Trip Home

12.         The Bowl

13.         Magnetism

14.         The Scandal Detectives

15.         A Night at the Fair

Présentation de l'éditeur

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. 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. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks." These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context.
Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, "Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms." This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 035619678X
• ISBN 13: 9780356196787
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 800
• Éditeur: Bruccoli Matthew J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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