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A sumptuously illustrated adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel of the 1920s, in a vivid and accessible new format.F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece roars into life in this sweeping, dreamy graphic novel - among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolours, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, and excerpts from the original text weave themselves through the illustrations. Prepare to be carried off on a cloud of whimsical romance with Daisy and Gatsby, in a reading experience reminiscent of Hollywood classic movies.The graphic novel format makes it an ideal teaching tool to engage GCSE and higher level Literature students of Gatsby, and the art-deco gift design will prove irresistible to existing fans and collectors. With its timeless critique of class, power and obsession, The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel captures the energy of an era and the enduring resonance of one of the world's most beloved books.

This attractively designed edition of the classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties is bound in genuine bonded leather, with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon marker.

Includes stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "May Day", "The Rich Boy", "Crazy Sunday", "An Alcoholic Case", "The Lees of Happiness", "The Lost Decade" and "Babylon Revisited". The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work.Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected eleven forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.

There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'. Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. As the tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing consequences. A brilliant evocation of 1920s high society, "The Great Gatsby" peels away the layers of this glamorous world to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'.A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it. The sharpness of Fitzgerald's prose, the steely simplicity of his style, give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties, from which Fitzgerald draws a painfully bitter-sweet love affair and bids his own poignant farewell to the Great American Dream.

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Escrito en 1920 (cinco años antes de la publicación de El gran Gatsby) «El pagaré» es un relato que estaba inédito hasta que en 2017 The New Yorker lo descubrió y publicó. Parece ser que estaba destinado a ser publicado en Harper's Bazaar, pero Francis Scott Fitzgerald se lo quedó para su y nunca lo envió para su publicación.Este relato narra la historia de un editor que acaba de contratar un exitoso libro, las memorias de un médico convertido en espiritualista, titulado La aristocracia del mundo espiritual. Después de un exitoso lanzamiento de medio millón de copias, el editor decide visitar al autor para firmar su próximo libro…

F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, celebrated for his penetrating and moving depiction of the American Jazz Age. This beautiful hardback collection brings together some of Fitzgerald's finest and most iconic novels, novellas and short stories, presented in a beautiful hardback treasury.Includes: The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned Flappers and Philosophers The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Other Tales of the Jazz Age

Escrita por F. Scott Fitzgerald y publicada en 1925, El Gran Gatsby es la gran novela del denominado sueño americano surgido a partir de 1920. Ofrece una demoledora disección de la época del jazz y a la vez es una seductora historia de amor y de egoismo, de lo que es igualmente capaz el ser humano. Se trata de una de las obras maestras de la narrativa norteamericana escrita por uno de los autores pertenecientes a la generacion perdida, en la que figuran escritores de la talla de Hemingway o Dos Passos. El volumen incluye los relatos: El extraño caso de Benjamin Button , Volver a Babilonia , La tarde de un escritor y El ultimo beso . La presente edicion contiene ilustraciones de Katherine Silva y esta presentada en formato de 13,5 x 19 cms, con encuadernacion tapa dura y marca paginas de hilo.

«Les nits d?estiu, de la casa del meu veí brollaven onades de música. Als seus jardins blaus, homes i noies anaven i venien com papallones nocturnes entre els xiuxiueigs i el xampany i les estrelles»

"El gran Gatsby tiene pocos rivales como la gran novela americana del siglo XX. Al volver a leerla, una vez más, mi inicial y primera reacción es de renovado placer". Harold BlommEn los felices años veinte, en la era del jazz, la ciudad de Nueva York es el centro del universo. Hay musica desenfrenada, noches en blanco y champan a raudales; hay contrabando, tiroteos y bonanza economica; y ademas esta Gatsby. Jay Gatsby, enigmatico, millonario y hecho a si mismo, que organiza fiestas de ensueño en su babilonica mansion de Long Island, bailes a los que acude el mundo entero. Y eso incluye a la arrebatadora Daisy Buchanan, la mujer que una vez lo amo, antes de que la abandonase para luchar en Europa, antes de que permitiera que se casara con otro, tan deslumbrante, tan imposible de recuperar como lo es todo tiempo pasado...Una de las grandes novelas de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX que se ofrece aqui en una nueva traduccion, una obra unica que, como escribe Jesus Ferrero en su esclarecedor prologo, "hay que abordar como quien se adentra en un espacio oscilante y magico, donde todo esta matizado y sugerido hasta el dolor y la extenuacion, y donde el lenguaje discurre como musica de jazz, emitiendo en cada p

"El gran Gatsby" (1925), tercera novela de su autor, constituye la cima de su carrera, pues en ella convergen a la perfección una prosa elegante de innegable aliento lírico, una amplia gama de símbolos e imagenes sumamente evocadores y un sagaz analisis de la sociedad estadounidense de la epoca. La novela aborda temas como los anhelos frustrados, el poder del dinero, el mito nacional del "sueño americano", el papel de la mujer moderna o el frenesi de Nueva York durante la "Ley Seca". Esta obra maestra casi centenaria, relativamente breve y muy conocida gracias al cine, resulta tan compleja como inagotable."El gran Gatsby" (1925), tercera novela de su autor, constituye la cima de su carrera, pues en ella convergen a la perfección una prosa elegante de innegable aliento lírico, una amplia gama de símbolos e imagenes sumamente evocadores y un sagaz analisis de la sociedad estadounidense de la epoca. La novela aborda temas como los anhelos frustrados, el poder del dinero, el mito nacional del "sueño americano", el papel de la mujer moderna o el frenesi de Nueva York durante la "Ley Seca". Esta obra maestra casi centenaria, relativamente breve y muy conocida gracias al cine, resulta tan compleja como inagotable.

Esta novela é, ante todo, unha crítica da sociedade norteamericana de comezos da década de 1920, unha sociedade despreocupada que gozaba do benestar económico da época e levaba unha vida onde o luxo era o elemento predominante. Tamén trata o tema da persecución do "american dream", o soño americano, que afirma que calquera pode conseguir o que desexa co seu esforzo.

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925, "The Great Gatsby" is the great novel of the so-called American dream that emerged from the Roaring Twenties. It offers a devastating dissection of the jazz era and at the same time is a seductive story of love, selfishness, wealth, lies and deception. It is one of the masterpieces of American literature written by one of the most famous authors of the Lost Generation, which includes writers such as Hemingway and Dos Passos. F. Scott Fitzgerald certainly made a mark on the world with his alter ego: Gatsby, a character that shared many of his own faults and dreams, and depicted with his story a timeless tale that will live on forever.

Una extraordinaria fábula sobre el sueño americano.Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, es el arquetipo de los legendarios años veinte en los que todo parecía posible, tiempo de felicidad entre el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la barbarie de la Segunda. Con los demas protagonistas, forma parte de la Generacion Perdida, los jovenes tristes que personificaron el mito de la pasion y el desafecto, la literatura que se funde con la vida.Publicada por primera vez en 1925,El gran Gatsby esta considerada La Gran Novela Americana. Simboliza el triunfo, la perpetua juventud y el deslumbramiento que desembocan en la tragedia, la decadencia y la caida, vicisitudes reflejadas con asombrosa precision en la propia vida de Fitzgerald.La critica ha dicho...El gran Gatsby es el primer paso adelante dado por la narrativa norteamericana desde Henry James.T. S. EliotEl tenia una de las cualidades mas raras en la literatura: encanto, encanto como Keats lo habia tenido ¿y quien lo posee hoy dia?Raymond ChandlerFitzgerald representa el estilo, la profundidad y la lucidez... Hay frases en sus libros que quedaran grabadas para siempre en tu memoria... Bienvenido sea cualquier pretexto cinematografico si sirve para que los lectores jovenes descubran a Fitzgerald. Los viejos nunca hemos dejado de releerlo. La adiccion que crea es para siempre.Carlos Boyero,BabeliaFitzgerald era el mejor de todos nosotros.Ernest HemingwayFitzgerald es mi autor favorito.Haruki MurakamiLe leeran cuando muchos de sus contemporaneos esten olvidados.Gertrude Stein