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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.

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush - with quite a hangover.

"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, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

"Sus relatos captan un destello de vida en un punto crucial de transición, cuando la juventud se desvanece" Patrick O´Donnell "El gominola", trata de un ser anodino, uno de tantos fracasados que no esperan de la existencia mucho más que dos o tres rutinas manejables. Jim Powell tendrá, no obstante, la oportunidad de atisbar otros mundos distintos y, con ellos, la posibilidad de una redención. Pero acaso su condición de gominola, de haragán de los billares y los bares de mala muerte, sea más fuerte que todas las promesas de felicidad, igualmente fútiles.

Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity.Also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists, this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgeralds development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.________''He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.'' The New York Times

"A tragedy backlist by beauty." "-- Daily Express""For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of Tender: A beautiful novel about failure." "-- Independent""It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift... the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence -- it is so beautiful." "--" Sam Taylor-Wood

Navona rescata esta obra, descatalogada, en la única edición en castellano autorizada por los herederos del autor. La edición cuenta con un esclarecedor prólogo de Edmun Wilson y con numerosas notas y riguroso epilogo de la traductora Dolors Ortega, en el que se explica el proceso de traduccion contrastando las versiones de Wilson (1941 y de Bruccoli (1993).

"Winter Dreams"descriu lascens social dun jove i, sobretot, les desafeccions de lamor, tema recurrent en lobra de Fitzgerald. A Bernice Bobs her Hair, una jove ingenua intenta fer tot el possible per sentir-se socialment acceptada."Bob haircut"o"a la garçonne", era el tall de cabell propi de les escandaloses vampiresses del cinema. El bo i millor del narrador nord-america ho trobem en els relats protagonitzats per les flappers i pels sad young men, retrats fidels de les noies modernes i dels joves afligits que formaven part de la generacio del jazz que va viure entre dues guerres.

"Francis Scott Fitzgerald es uno de los escritores norteamericanos más importantes del siglo XX, gracias a obras como «El gran Gatsby», «A este lado del paraíso» o «Hermosos y malditos». Basil Duke

Der permanente amerikanische Traum von Ruhm, Macht und Geld, das standige Streben nach personlichem Erfolg, die Mystifikation des Lebens, rauschende Feste und Geldsorgen, Hohenfluge und Absturze ins Bodenlose das waren die wichtigesten Themen seines Lebens und seines Werks. Bei F. Scott Fitzgerald nimmt die exaltierte Welt der Reichen und Schonen und der Emporkommlinge mitunter bizarre Formen an, das zeigen aufs Unterhaltsamste die hier versammelten Kurzgeschichten. Es sind zehn kleine Meisterwerke aus der Feder eines Hauptvertreters der amerikanischen Moderne, sie fangen die Stimmung der Roaring Twenties ein, gipfeln schlielich in der Depression der 30er Jahre und bestechen stets durch ihre sprachliche Ausdruckskraft.

El gran Gatsby es «La Gran Novela Americana», el símbolo de una época en la que pareció que todo era posible, un tiempo de felicidad entre el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la barbarie de la S

The Great Gatsby is one of the most recognized texts by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, considered a classic of American literature, whose exquisite work maintains all its relevance and freshness.Gatsby, the gentleman who reigns over West Egg, the host of the restless nights, but also the winner marked by the tragic fate of an unintended loneliness, is the archetype of those twenties that began with Prohibition and ran through the gangsterism and organized political corruption. Protagonist of a decade that would culminate in the catastrophe of 1929, his image of splendor does nothing but announce an inevitable drama.The Great Gatsby has been made into films, with great success and popularity.

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, "Tender is the Night" 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. In "Tender is the Night", 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.