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This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twains 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 one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butlers "Note-books."The story was published in "Colliers" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati:"Sir--I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."

Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including "The Cut-Glass Bowl" in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family''s misfortunes, "The Four Fists" where a man''s life shaped by a series of punches to his face, and the revelry, mobs and anguish of "May Day" - F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.

Los relatos que componen esta antología tienen un denominador común: sus protagonistas son hombres apuestos, dispuestos a disfrutar de las desenfrenadas noches neoyorquinas de principios del siglo XX. Encabeza la antología la historia de Benjamin Button, un hombre que nace viejo y, a medida que pasan los años, recupera la juventud, lo que le permite ver la sociedad que lo rodea con ojos distintos y críticos. Otros relatos hablan de novios imposibles y padres incómodos con su condición, de jóvenes y ricos herederos que envejecen prematuramente un mundo de luces y sombras que deja un sabor amargo en los labios.

Benjamin Button ressemble dès sa naissance à un vieillard barbu et chenu. Il rajeunit un peu chaque jour, pour devenir peu à peu un homme mûr, un jeune homme, un enfant. Nouvelles extraites du recuei

O grande Gatsby (1925) é considerado a obra-prima de F. Scott Fitzgerald. É um perfeito retrato dos loucos anos 20, nos quais o choque da "nova" modernidade se refl etia numa juventude impactada pela guerra e pela revoluço industrial. O romance relata a historia do enigmatico Jay Gatsby, proprietario de uma luxuosa manso na zona mais rica das praias de Long Island, onde ele promove suntuosas festas, frequentadas por escritores, produtores de cinema, stars, esportistas, gangsteres e garotas bonitas em busca de ascenso social. O misterio que paira sobre Gatsby, um homem elegante e indecifravel, e seu interesse pela bela Daisy Buchanan foram imortalizados no cinema por Robert Redford e Mia Farrow, que com suas interpretaçes deram vida a essencia da Era do Jazz.

O diamante do tamanho do Ritz traz a história de John T. Unger, nascido na cidadezinha de Hades. Quando vai estudar em Boston, ele entra em contato com a classe alta da Nova Inglaterra, e sua crescente obsesso por status o levara as mais disparatadas desventuras. Em Bernice corta o cabelo, uma moça do interior passa uma temporada na cidade e faz de tudo para se aproximar da prima, uma jovem popular e sem escrupulos. E em O palacio de gelo, Sally Carrol, uma garota sulista, debate-se entre o noivado com um ianque e a fidelidade as tradiçes do Sul. Alem de figurar entre os mais famosos contos de Fitzgerald, estes textos so exemplares do autor, pela narrativa arrojada e por abordar a vida da juventude rica americana na primeira metade do seculo XX.

Suave é a Noite ( Tender is the Night ) é o quarto é último romance completo de F. Scott Fitzgerald e narra a trágica história de Dick Diver, um jovem e brilhante psiquiatra, cuja carreira é interrompida ao casar-se com a rica Nicole Warren, uma de suas pacientes. Nesta obra, Fitzgerald aborda temas como o alcoolismo, depravaço do homem, psicanalise, solido, adulterios... entre outros. Suave e a Noite e considerado por Scott Fitzgerald como a sua melhor produço literaria e em 1998, a Modern Library classificou Tender is the Night como 28o. em sua lista de 100 melhores romances da lingua inglesa do seculo 20.

Agora voce pode viver o sonho americano! Bem-vindo a manso de Gatsby! Depois de receber um convite para uma festa luxuosa e extravagante em Long Island, Nick Carraway, um jovem solteiro que acaba de se mudar para Nova York, fica curioso a respeito do anfitrio, o misterioso Jay Gatsby. Excentrico, porem reservado, Gatsby e um self-made man cujo passado e desconhecido e com negocios obscuros. A medida que Nick e Gatsby começam uma amizade improvavel, Nick descobre que nem tudo que reluz e ouro, e que tudo o que seu vizinho mais quer na vida e recuperar o amor de Daisy, prima de Nick. Considerado a obra-prima de F. Scott Fitzgerald, O grande Gatsby retrata os "loucos anos 20", periodo que se seguiu a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e conduz o leitor pelo universo brilhante e frivolo de Daisy, de seu marido, Tom Buchanan, e de Gatsby, com todo o misterio que o rodeia.Publicado originalmente em 10 de abril de 1925, O grande Gatsby descreve os excessos, as fantasias e a decadencia das personagens de Fitzgerald, e e uma critica atemporal ao sonho americano. Nesta nova ediço, a traduço primorosa de Bruno Cobalchini Mattos e fiel a espontaneidade e a sutileza de Fitzgerald, que desvela pouco a pouco a desiluso de seu heroi, Jay Gatsby.

ales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including '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 shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. F. Scott Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. This stunning Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tender is the Night features an afterword by Ned Halley.

n The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything from a German spy to a war hero. People clamour for invitations to his wild parties. But Jay Gatsby doesn't heed them. He cares for one person alone - Daisy Buchanan, the woman he has waited for all his life. Little does he know that his infatuation will lead to tragedy and end in murder. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Great Gatsby features an afterword by David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness. Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of Fitzgerald's novels, it is a brilliant character study written in breathtaking prose. It is also a gripping account of the complexities of marriage, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Primavera de 1922. Nick Carraway, veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial y graduado en Yale, se muda a Long Island desde el Medio Oeste para trabajar como vendedor de bonos. Una vez allí, conoce a su vecino, el multimillonario Jay Gatsby, obsesionado por conseguir el corazon de su prima: Daisy Buchanan.El Gran Gatsby constituye un fiel retrato de diferentes estratos de la sociedad neoyorkina durante la decada de 1920. Es una historia sobre la hipocresia, el desenfreno, el dinero, el amor y la lujuria. Desde la editorial Uve Books, presentamos esta edicion de arte, con nueva traduccion a cargo de Marino Costa e ilustrada por Helena Toraño. Ademas del libro, la edicion contiene un mapa plegado de la epoca y un tarjeton ilustrado.

Dick y Nicole Diver, una pareja norteamericana, llega a la Riviera francesa en los años en que allí se citaba la beautiful people de todo el mundo. Son ricos, inteligentes, elegantes, irresistiblemente atractivos. Pero hay algo que no es perfecto. Nicole tiene un secreto, Dick una debilidad, y juntos se dirigen irremediablemente hacia las rocas contra las que su aventura puede estrellarse. Suave es la noche es una de la mejores novelas de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, el autor de El gran Gatsby, y, segun se esposa, Zelda, hay mucho de su propia vida en este atormentado retrato de la opulencia destructiva y el idealismo malogrado. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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