Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

Il diamante grande come il Ritz, lo strano caso di Benjamin Button, Primo Maggio e altri ancora. Undici storie di un grande autore, undici racconti ironici, amari, romantici, surreali, commoventi, buffi, irriverenti ma soprattutto... jazz. Molto, molto jazz

Nous sommes au lendemain de la Grande Guerre, le mal du siecle envahit les ames, c'est l'epoque de la Prohibition et des fortunes rapides. En 1922, Jay Gatz, desormais Gatsby, se retrouve fabuleusement riche. Personnage mysterieux installe a Long Island dans une somptueuse propriete, milles legendes courent sur son compte. Elles n'empechent pas les gens chic, et moins chic, de venir en troupes boire ses cocktails et danser sur ses pelouses."

"Flappers and Philosophers" from Francis Scott Fitzgerald. American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age (1896-1940).

"Tales of the Jazz Age" from Francis Scott Fitzgerald. American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age (1896-1940).

"The Beautiful and Damned" from Francis Scott Fitzgerald. American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age (1896-1940).

"This Side of Paradise" from Francis Scott Fitzgerald. American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age (1896-1940).

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general hysteria of that spring which inaugurated the Age of Jazz, but in my story I have tried, unsuccessfully I fear, to weave them into a pattern-a pattern which would give the effect of those months in New York as they appeared to at least one member of what was then the younger generation.

This short story was first published in the "Metropolitan," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "When this was written I had just completed the first draft of my second novel, and a natural reaction made me revel in a story wherein none of the characters need be taken seriously. And I'm afraid that I was somewhat carried away by the feeling that there was no ordered scheme to which I must conform. After due consideration, however, I have decided to let it stand as it is, although the reader may find himself somewhat puzzled at the time element. I had best say...

The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your...