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The Essential Fitzgerald - 45 Short Stories & Novels in One Edition: Jazz Age Classics of Wealth, Romance, Disillusionment, and Roaring Twenties Society - Couverture souple

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

 
9788027385539: The Essential Fitzgerald - 45 Short Stories & Novels in One Edition: Jazz Age Classics of Wealth, Romance, Disillusionment, and Roaring Twenties Society

Synopsis

The Essential Fitzgerald gathers forty-five works that display the full range of F. Scott Fitzgerald's art, from glittering novels of aspiration and disillusion to short stories shaped by wit, lyricism, and social exactitude. Across portraits of flappers, dreamers, expatriates, debutantes, and self-made men, Fitzgerald refines the idiom of the Jazz Age: luminous prose, dramatic irony, and an elegiac awareness that beauty and success are often shadowed by loss. Read together, these works illuminate American modernism's fascination with money, performance, romance, and moral exhaustion. Fitzgerald's fiction drew deeply on his own life: his Midwestern beginnings, Princeton ambitions, marriage to Zelda Sayre, celebrity in the 1920s, financial pressures, and later struggles in Hollywood. Born in 1896, he became both chronicler and casualty of the era he named. His intimate knowledge of privilege, insecurity, artistic ambition, and emotional extravagance gave his writing its distinctive mixture of enchantment and critique. This edition is ideal for readers seeking more than a single masterpiece. It offers a capacious introduction to Fitzgerald's recurring concerns and stylistic brilliance, rewarding both first-time readers and scholars with a fuller sense of his achievement.

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