F. Scott Fitzgerald

Library of America presents the definitive novel of the Jazz Age in an authoritative new text--along with a quartet of brilliant stories that explore variations on the theme of desperate longing for an unattainable someone or something Boats against the current, we are borne back ceaselessly to The Great Gatsby. Its unforgettable characters--the conflicted narrator Nick Carraway, the golden girl Daisy Buchanan, and the mysterious Jay Gatsby--its indelible symbols and soaring prose, and its large themes of money, class, and American optimism have an enduring fascination and make The Great Gatsby a frequent candidate for "the Great American novel." Now readers can experience F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece in an edition that brings us closest to his original vision for the work. Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald's collected writings, this deluxe paperback presents a new, corrected text of The Great Gatsby by preeminent Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III, incorporating emendations the author made on galley proofs and in his personal copy of the book. Fitzgerald's masterpiece is joined here by four contemporary stories--the "Gatsby cluster"--in which he explores variations on the theme of desperate longing for an unattainable someone or something: "Winter Dreams," "The Rich Boy," "Absolution," and "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les." Essential reading for fans of the novel, these, too, are presented in newly corrected texts. Rounding out this special edition is a selection of thirteen letters between Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, about the composition, editing, and publication of The Great Gatsby, offering a fascinating glimpse into the genesis of an American classic. Other features include a preface by the editor, a detailed chronology of Fitzgerald's life and career, and helpful explanatory and textual notes.

This original version of The Great Gatsby is published in Noah Text(R), a proprietary evidenced-based method of presenting text. Noah Text(R) highlights critical word patterns to help struggling readers, striving readers, those with dyslexia, and English language-learners read with increased fluency, accuracy, and stamina. The Great Gatsby, read and revered by millions throughout the world since it was first published in 1925, is riveting from beginning to end. It is the story of an ultra-rich young man named Jay Gatsby who owns a mansion on Long Island, where he throws wildly extravagant parties. No one knows how he earned his wealth, so the rumors swirl. A timeless classic, the story explores the nature of social class in America during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. It has been adapted for the screen several times, including a 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (Note to Educators: This unique print presentation enables students to see critical word patterns that make the text more accessible and help them improve their reading skills. Thus, this book can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with audio support for multisensory, immersive learning.)

This original version of The Great Gatsby is published in Noah Text(R), a proprietary evidenced-based method of presenting text. Noah Text(R) highlights critical word patterns to help struggling readers, striving readers, those with dyslexia, and English language-learners read with increased fluency, accuracy, and stamina. The Great Gatsby, read and revered by millions throughout the world since it was first published in 1925, is riveting from beginning to end. It is the story of an ultra-rich young man named Jay Gatsby who owns a mansion on Long Island, where he throws wildly extravagant parties. No one knows how he earned his wealth, so the rumors swirl. A timeless classic, the story explores the nature of social class in America during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. It has been adapted for the screen several times, including a 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (Note to Educators: This unique print presentation enables students to see critical word patterns that make the text more accessible and help them improve their reading skills. Thus, this book can be used as a stand-alone or in conjunction with audio support for multisensory, immersive learning.)

Plongez au coeur des tincelantes soir es de l'Am rique des ann es folles avec "Gatsby Le Magnifique", l'oeuvre intemporelle et envo tante de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. travers les ruelles pav es de l'imaginaire village de West Egg, ce roman vous transporte dans un tourbillon de luxe d cadent, de myst re enivrant et d'amours interdites. Au centre de ce conte envo tant se trouve Jay Gatsby, un homme au pass obscur mais la r putation l gendaire, dont les soir es somptueuses attirent les lites de la soci t . Sa somptueuse demeure, symbole d'opulence et de r ves insaisissables, abrite un homme en qu te de la myst rieuse et insaisissable Daisy Buchanan. Cette beaut th r e, mari e Tom Buchanan, incarne la quintessence du r ve am ricain, un id al clatant et inaccessible que Gatsby tente d sesp r ment d'atteindre. Au-del des fastes et des paillettes de ces festivit s grandioses, Fitzgerald tisse une toile complexe de d sirs inassouvis, de trag dies cach es et de r alit s d form es. travers les yeux de Nick Carraway, le narrateur observateur, le lecteur est plong dans un univers de faux-semblants et de contradictions, o les masques sociaux se fissurent pour r v ler les mes bris es des personnages. "Gatsby Le Magnifique" n'est pas simplement un roman sur l'opulence et les extravagances de l'Am rique des ann es 1920; c'est une exploration profonde des illusions du r ve am ricain et de la poursuite insaisissable du bonheur. Les festivit s d cadentes dissimulent les blessures du pass , les amours perdus et les espoirs trahis, offrant ainsi une r flexion poignante sur la nature humaine et sur la mani re dont les r ves peuvent se transformer en trag dies. Avec sa prose l gante et envo tante, Fitzgerald capture l'essence m me d'une poque tumultueuse et fascinante, tout en explorant les th mes intemporels de l'amour, de l'illusion et de la qu te de sens. "Gatsby Le Magnifique" vous entra ne dans un tourbillon de passions br lantes, de secrets inavou s et de drames d chirants, laissant une empreinte ind l bile sur votre esprit et votre coeur. Plongez dans ce chef-d'oeuvre litt raire captivant et d couvrez pourquoi il continue de fasciner les lecteurs travers les g n rations.

''. . . Those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.''An electric and fantastical depiction of the Jazz Age and the dark side of the elusive American dream, The Great Gatsby is one of the twentieth century's most iconic and widely read novels. Rediscover this beloved classic in an elegant yet affordable Masterpiece Library keepsake edition, honoring the Peter Pauper Press founding tradition of publishing beautiful books. Deluxe hardcover volume. Gold foil-stamped cover. Reinforced cloth quarter-binding for durabilityPremium, cream-colored acid-free archival-quality paper for longevity and reading comfort under harsh lighting. Font, type size, and line spacing chosen for a luxurious reading experience. A classic addition to any home library.160 pages. American novelist Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is renowned for his portrayal of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his most famous novel, was published in 1925.

The Vegetable or From President to Postman, more commonly known simply as The Vegetable, is a 1923 play by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is his only play and is based on one of his short story that he developed into a play. n the original publication of The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (1923), F. Scott Fitzgerald included the following quotation on the title page: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has-he's nothing more or less than a vegetable." Fitzgerald used this quotation, which he claimed came "from a current magazine," as a springboard for his only published play. This comic romp satirizes the ambitions of an ordinary man who wants to be President of the United States-that is, if he cannot make it as a postman. The play concerns the misadventures of the middle-class striver Jerry Frost. He is a 35-year-old "clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them." He is stereotypically henpecked (i.e., constantly criticized) by his wife Charlotte, and their marriage is dull. We learn in the first act that Jerry wanted to be a postman, but that he somehow blames his wife for missing out on this ambition. Following The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald hoped to secure financial wealth for him and his wife. The play's text was published in book form by Scribners on April 27, 1923, in a print run of 7,650 copies, each sold for $1.50. In his youth, Fitzgerald had written and acted in plays (cf. The Captured Shadow), and his work was generally recognized for qualities that should have translated to the stage: "he wrote commercially successful stories; he knew how to frame a scene; and his dialogue, at least in his best fiction, was smart, sophisticated, evocative." However, according to some critics, the play lacked focus. Its premiere, in a single preview (Nov. 19, 1923) at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was widely regarded as a disaster. Zelda Fitzgerald later wrote in a letter that the audience were "so obviously bored" and some walked out during the second act. Fitzgerald himself wrote that "I wanted to stop the show and say it was all a mistake but the actors struggled heroically on." During the second intermission, Fitzgerald and Ring Lardner asked the lead actor, Ernest Truex, "Are you going to stay and do the last act?" The actor replied that he was, at which the pair of writers retorted that they were heading to a bar down the street. While Fitzgerald claimed to be proud of the work, and had hoped it would succeed, the critical and public reaction to the first and only performance left the author in a deep depression, followed by a drinking binge. It was, however, revived years later and produced by Lenox Hill Players, Inc., at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, April 10, 1929. It ran for only thirteen performances. As a work first published in 1923, The Vegetable entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019 and is now freely available online. (wikipedia.org)

The Vegetable or From President to Postman, more commonly known simply as The Vegetable, is a 1923 play by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is his only play and is based on one of his short story that he developed into a play. n the original publication of The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (1923), F. Scott Fitzgerald included the following quotation on the title page: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has-he's nothing more or less than a vegetable." Fitzgerald used this quotation, which he claimed came "from a current magazine," as a springboard for his only published play. This comic romp satirizes the ambitions of an ordinary man who wants to be President of the United States-that is, if he cannot make it as a postman. The play concerns the misadventures of the middle-class striver Jerry Frost. He is a 35-year-old "clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them." He is stereotypically henpecked (i.e., constantly criticized) by his wife Charlotte, and their marriage is dull. We learn in the first act that Jerry wanted to be a postman, but that he somehow blames his wife for missing out on this ambition. Following The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald hoped to secure financial wealth for him and his wife. The play's text was published in book form by Scribners on April 27, 1923, in a print run of 7,650 copies, each sold for $1.50. In his youth, Fitzgerald had written and acted in plays (cf. The Captured Shadow), and his work was generally recognized for qualities that should have translated to the stage: "he wrote commercially successful stories; he knew how to frame a scene; and his dialogue, at least in his best fiction, was smart, sophisticated, evocative." However, according to some critics, the play lacked focus. Its premiere, in a single preview (Nov. 19, 1923) at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was widely regarded as a disaster. Zelda Fitzgerald later wrote in a letter that the audience were "so obviously bored" and some walked out during the second act. Fitzgerald himself wrote that "I wanted to stop the show and say it was all a mistake but the actors struggled heroically on." During the second intermission, Fitzgerald and Ring Lardner asked the lead actor, Ernest Truex, "Are you going to stay and do the last act?" The actor replied that he was, at which the pair of writers retorted that they were heading to a bar down the street. While Fitzgerald claimed to be proud of the work, and had hoped it would succeed, the critical and public reaction to the first and only performance left the author in a deep depression, followed by a drinking binge. It was, however, revived years later and produced by Lenox Hill Players, Inc., at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, April 10, 1929. It ran for only thirteen performances. As a work first published in 1923, The Vegetable entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019 and is now freely available online. (wikipedia.org)

På Long Island utanför New York avlöser de överdådiga festerna varandra. Nykomlingen Jack Carraway dras in i den mystiske miljonären Jay Gatsbys strävan att vinna tillbaka sin ungdomskärlek, Daisy Buchanan. Till de rika amerikaner som sökt sig till franska rivieran hör Dick och Nicole Driver. Bjudningarna i deras fashionabla villa frekventeras av alla betydande, så även av den unga filmstjärnan Rosemary Hoyt. Collegestudenten Cecilia Brady, dotter till en inflytelserik Hollywood-producent, gör sig redo att resa till Los Angeles. På flygplatsen springer hon på en av sin fars gamla vänner, i sällskap med en misslyckad producent som lämnar ett meddelande han vill att Cecilia ska framföra. I Tre romaner - som i en volym samlar Den store Gatsby [The Great Gatsby, 1925], Natten är ljuv [Tender Is the Night, 1934] och den postuma Den siste magnaten [The Last Tycoon, 1941] - blottlägger F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920- och 30-talens lika spritindränkta och glamorösa som desillusionerade jazz-era. I översättning av Gösta Olzon, Arne Hägglund och Gunnar Barklund. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] var en amerikansk författare, född i St. Paul, Minnesota. Äktenskapet med Zelda Montgomery är legendariskt, så även parets bekantskaper med till exempel Gertrude Stein och Ernest Hemingway och deras livsstil i Paris på tjugotalet. Mästare i novellgenren som F. Scott Fitzgerald också var, är det logiskt att den mest berömda romanen är den kortaste: Den store Gatsby.

The great Gatsby, f Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the Supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the jazz age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on long island at a time when the new York Times noted "gin was the National drink and sex the National obsession," It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the great American novel ever written.