F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers : the collected short stories

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 A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade".

Product details

• Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2010
• EAN: 9780141194103
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119410-3
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 805 g
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection; Penguin Classics; Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection; PENGUIN F SCOTT
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary