The Last Tycoon

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 Fizgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading 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 Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work). Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. Zusammenfassung Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it.

Product details

• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Edmund Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780141194080
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119408-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection; Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary