Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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.

"Ledjanoj dvorets", "Zagadochnaja istorija Bendzhamina Battona", "Dve viny", "Zhozefina, zhenschina s proshlym", "Sumasshedshee voskresene" i drugie absoljutno raznye i neobychajno talantlivye rasskazy Frensisa Skotta Fitsdzheralda... Fitsdzherald, vladevshij iskusstvom "maloj" prozy v sovershenstve, s legkostju eksperimentiroval s raznymi ee stiljami i napravlenijami. V etot sbornik voshli proizvedenija, napisannye im v raznye gody i pozvoljajuschie chitatelju sostavit polnoe predstavlenie o mnogogrannosti ego talanta v zhanre rasskaza - ot izyskannogo magicheskogo realizma i groteska do glubokogo psikhologicheskogo realizma i ostroj satiry.

It's summertime, and the young, popular crowd, home from prep school and college, are looking to have fun. Unfortunately for Marjorie Harvey, her dull cousin Bernice is visiting for a month. Even though Marjorie is one of the most popular girls in town, nobody wants to hang out with poor Bernice, whose conversation is mostly limited to painfully awkward inquiries about the weather.

Jacobs Ladder was written in 1927 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. A man falls in love with a girl but does not realize it until it's too late. She thinks of him as nothing more than a close friend, but he loves her in ways that words can not describe. She falls in love with someone else and leaves him heartbroken...

The Perfect Life, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is a short story published in 1929. "He planned out the years of waiting, each one helping the other to lead the perfect life, neither of them ever kissing anybody else-he would insist on that, absolutely insist on it; she must promise not even to see Skiddy De Vinci-and then marriage and a life of service, perfection, fame and love..."

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.

Amerika 1920-kh godov, "vek dzhaza", vremja stremitelnykh vzletov i padenij, slovno passazhej neistovogo saksofona, improvizirujuschego gde-to posredi nochnogo Mankhettena; vremja geroev, svobodnykh ot predrassudkov, stremjaschikhsja vverkh, ne zadumyvajas o posledstvijakh, i tam, na vershine uspekha, otchajanno i beznadezhno pytajuschikhsja najti svoe schaste... Genialnyj roman Skotta Fitsdzheralda, schitajuschijsja vershinoj amerikanskoj literatury, nepremenno vkhodjaschij vo vsevozmozhnye spiski "luchshikh iz luchshikh", adaptirovan v nastojaschem izdanii po metodu Ili Franka: snabzhen transkriptsiej, doslovnym perevodom na russkij jazyk i neobkhodimym leksiko-grammaticheskim kommentariem. Unikalnost metoda zakljuchaetsja v tom, chto zapominanie slov i vyrazhenij proiskhodit za schet ikh povtorjaemosti, bez zauchivanija i neobkhodimosti ispolzovat slovar. Posobie sposobstvuet effektivnomu osvoeniju jazyka, mozhet sluzhit dopolneniem k uchebnoj programme. Dlja shirokogo kruga lits, izuchajuschikh anglijskij jazyk i interesujuschikhsja anglijskoj kulturoj.