F. Scott Fitzgerald

Natten är ljuv är F. Scott Fitzgeralds första roman efter Den store Gatsby. Den utspelar sig på franska rivieran under 1920-talet där Dick och Nicole Diver lever ett glamoröst och spännande överklassliv tillsammans med andra rika amerikaner. I paret Divers fantastiska villa går konstnärer och andra excentriker in och ut, däribland den vackra artonåriga skådespelerskan Rosemary Hoyt. När hon får för sig att förföra Dick brister den ömtåliga struktur som håller ihop Dicks äktenskap med Nicole, och mörka hemligheter avslöjas. I Natten är ljuv har F. Scott Fitzgerald vidareutvecklat den granskning av rikedomens förödande effekt på den mänskliga naturen som blev så hyllad i Den store Gatsby. Han hämtar material och idéer från sin tids senaste rön i psykologi och psykiatri men också från sitt eget liv på ett sätt som gör Natten är ljuv till en djupt självbiografisk bok. Natten är ljuv är också den av hans böcker som han tyckte bäst om. ”Gatsby var ett kraftprov”, skrev han, ”men detta är en trosbekännelse”. Och Ernest Hemingway, som han lärde känna på Dingo Bar i Paris, menade att Natten är ljuv är en bok som bara blir bättre och bättre med åren. Idag betraktas Natten är ljuv som ett av den amerikanska litteraturens mest betydande verk, inte minst på grund av det lyriskt mättade språket. Meningar som ”Det var en klar, svart natt som hängde som i en korg från en enda matt stjärna” och ”Nicole hade blivit skapad för omväxling, för att flyga, med pengar som fenor och vingar” har blivit bevingade.

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general hysteria of that spring which inaugurated the Age of Jazz, but in my story I have tried, unsuccessfully I fear, to weave them into a pattern-a pattern which would give the effect of those months in New York as they appeared to at least one member of what was then the younger generation.

'The Rich Boy' is a key document for understanding Fitzgerald's much-discussed and much-misunderstood attitudes toward the rich. He was not an envious admirer of the rich, who believed they possessed a special quality. In 1938 he observed: 'That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton... I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.' He knew the lives of the rich had great possibilities, but he recognized that they mostly failed to use those possibilities fully. He also perceived that money corrupts the will to excellence. Believing that work is the only dignity, he condemned the self-indulgent rich for wasting their freedom."

Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.

"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear." The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Caf Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy in Tender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald. La novela proporciona un retrato de la lite oriental durante la era del jazz, explorando la sociedad del caf de Nueva York. Al igual que con sus otras novelas, los personajes de Fitzgerald son complejos, especialmente en su matrimonio e intimidad, muy parecido a c mo trata la intimidad en Tender Is the Night. Se cree que el libro se basa principalmente en la relaci n de Fitzgerald y el matrimonio con Zelda Fitzgerald.

Last Kiss brings together some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career. Included in this volume are Fitzgerald's Thoughtbook, a revealing adolescent diary; an amusing self-interview, written in the early days of his initial fame; The Vegetable, his only published play; the five poems that he published after becoming a full-time author; twelve early book reviews, published between 1921 and 1923; seven short stories from the last decade of his career; seventeen public letters; six items of journalism, four of which attempt to explain the 'flapper' phenomenon; and unusual miscellaneous pieces. The texts, many of which are based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts, are fully annotated and are supported by an apparatus that records all emendations and editorial adjustments.

Fans of The Great Gatsby are in for a treat. Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists.

Fans of The Great Gatsby are in for a treat. Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists.

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known. I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself.

Flappers and Philosophers By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story tells of John T. Unger, a teenager from the town of Hades, Mississippi, who was sent to a private boarding school in Boston. During the summer he would visit the homes of his classmates, the vast majority of whom were from wealthy families. In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington was placed in Unger's form. He would speak only to Unger, and then very rarely, but invited him for the summer to his home, the location of which he would only state as being "in the West", an invitation Unger accepted. During the train ride Percy boasted that his father was "by far the richest man in the world", and when challenged by Unger boasted that his father "has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."

The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Caf Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy in Tender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald

The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. ""This was not art"" Pat Hobby often said, ""this was an industry"" where whom ""you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office."" Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish (excerpt) It was Christmas Eve in the studio. By eleven o'clock in the morning, Santa Claus had called on most of the huge population according to each one's deserts. Sumptuous gifts from producers to stars, and from agents to producers arrived at offices and studio bungalows: on every stage one heard of the roguish gifts of casts to directors or directors to casts...