The Great Gatsby

Informationen zum Autor Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age . His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned , The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940. Klappentext F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up , a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. Zusammenfassung 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 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'.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780241951477
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95147-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Essential Penguin; essentials; Penguin Essentials; VIKING FIC PB; Penguin Essentials; VIKING FIC PB; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary