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 (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Zusammenfassung Read F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion in one of the 20th century’s true contenders for the title of ‘Great American Novel’.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780099541530
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954153-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Literary, Long Island, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1919 to c 1929 (The Jazz Age)