This Side of Paradise examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I and explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking. Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who tries to keep a long distance relationship with his beloved Isabelle Borgé and writes her ever more flowery poems. But inevitably, Amory and Isabelle become disenchanted with each other after meeting again at his prom. Following their break-up, Amory is shipped overseas to serve in the army in World War I where he serves as a bayonet instructor. After the...

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Essential Fitzgerald - 45 Short Stories & Novels in One Edition". This book has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: - This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909), Reade, Substitute Right Half (1910), A Debt of Honor (1910), The Room with the Green Blinds (1911), A Luckless Santa Claus (1912), Pain and the Scientist (1913), The Trail of the Duke (1913), Shadow Laurels (1915), The...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in 1925. It follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Flappers and Philosophers' is a collection of short stories that beautifully encapsulate the ethos of the Jazz Age. Through his prose, Fitzgerald explores themes of youth, love, and the pursuit of happiness, portraying the vibrant and carefree lifestyle of the 1920s. His writing style is characterized by vivid imagery, intricate symbolism, and a keen eye for human emotion, making each story a mesmerizing journey for the reader. Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, the stories in this collection reflect the societal changes and cultural shifts of the time,...

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age". Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression, and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. The story Babylon Revisited is based on a true incident regarding Fitzgerald, his daughter "Scottie", his sister-in-law Rosalind and her...

The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Excerpt: "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun? Isolated during the European War, we had begun combing the unknown South and...

The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Zärtlich ist die Nacht - Neu editierte 2024er-Ausgabe, mit erklärenden Fußnoten | »Das heimliche Meisterwerk Fitzgeralds.« (DIE ZEIT') | Der begabte amerikanische Psychiater Richard Diver, kurz Dick, lernt beim Besuch in einem Schweizer Sanatorium Nicole Warren, die psychisch kranke Tochter eines reichen Industriellen kennen und verliebt sich in sie. Dick heiratet Nicole, um ihr als Arzt und Ehemann beizustehen. Sie bekommen zwei Kinder und pflegen in den folgenden Jahren einen luxuriösen Lebensstil an der Côte d'Azur. Die Idylle wird gestört, als die 18jährige...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Der große Gatsby | 2022er Neuausgabe | Wir befinden uns an der Ostküste der USA, im Jahre 1922. Es ist die aufregende Zeit der 'Roaring Twenties', als in New York Wolkenkratzer aus dem Boden wachsen und die Menschen lebenshungrig den Tanz auf dem Vulkan üben. Auf Long Island lebt man in mondäner Dekadenz, die harten Seiten des Lebens haben hier keinen Platz. Der junge Börsenmakler Nick Carraway bezieht auf der Halbinsel, die New York vorgelagert ist, ein kleines Haus, das er sich mit seinem schmalen Salär gerade noch leisten kann. In der Villa seines Nachbarn werden...