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 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. Zusammenfassung For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tony Tanner
• Assisted by: Tony Tanner (Introduction), Tanner Tony (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780141194059
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119405-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 204 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection; Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection; PENGUIN F SCOTT
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Long Island, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age)