F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned is Fitzgerald`s Jazz Age Morality Tale featuring Anthony Patch, who is a 1920s socialite, his wife Gloria, alcoholism, high society, fast lifestyles, and even a semi-autobiographical look into the author`s own life. Through it all we get Fitzgerald`s thoughts on marriage, love, decadence, greed, and humanity. It`s Fitzgerald at his best and a classic literary tale that should not be missed.

Дата выхода: январь 2010

Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

Издательство: Книга по требованию

Книга на английском языке Сборник знакомит читателя с наиболее значительными произведениями известного американского прозаика XX века Ф.С.Фицджеральда, яркого представителя литературы `потерянного поколения`. Издание рассчитано на широкий круг лиц, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся американской литературой.

Издательство: Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2000

Scott Fitzgerald blends wit and cynicism in his satirical portraits of the swinging Jazz Age. The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. `The Bowl` isa clear metaphor for this cold and brittle works, as a beautiful woman is made to suffer for the cruelty of her youth, her punishment ironically taking the shape of a cut - glass punch - bowl. The amusing `Bernice Bobs Her Hair` depicts a dull girl striving at all coasts to enter society, where the competition and jealousy wrought between women leads to bitter vengeance and a quirky twist in the tale. However, the powerful and destructive influence of money is never more stunningly...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2000

Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendarily glamorous affairs. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only one person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken charisma and `a full of money`. As Gatsby pursues shady deals and his doomed obsession with Daisy, Fitzgerald distills the essence of the Jazz Age, and probes to the empty heart of the American Dream.

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002

In a Swiss sanatorium, a brilliant psychiatrist encounters a rich young patient whose problems exert a seductive fascination. After their marriage, they live on the French Riviera. There, set against the sun-baked stone houses and the drama of the sea, Dick and Nicole Diver\'s glamour and wealth suggest a fabled existence - the charmed lives of the seriously and breathtakingly frivolous. But, as with all confidence tricks, luck can run out. It is to the theme of money, its corruption and destructive power, that F. Scott Fitzgerald returns in this, his most tantalizing and ambitious novel. The story of Dick and Nicole *s disintegrating marriage and spoilt promise reflects Fitzgerald\'s own dive into drink and despair - and, of course,...

Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002