Francis Scott: 161 books

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...

Waren de roaring twenties het toneel van De grote Gatsby, in deze roman uit 1934 richt Fitzgerald zijn blik op het decennium daarna. De gevierde psychiater Dick Diver en zijn steenrijke echtgenote Nicole hebben een indrukwekkende villa in Zuid-Frankrijk. Hun huis staat gastvrij open voor een aantal...

Se mio figlio sarà un uomo migliore di me, un giorno verrà a dirmi: «Papà, ti sbagliavi riguardo alla vita». Possa io allora avere il buonsenso di rispondere: «Buona fortuna e arrivederci. Prendi la tua strada, battiti strenuamente, e lasciami qui, in mezzo a tutte le cose sbagliate che ho amato»....

Nous sommes au lendemain de la Grande Guerre. Le mal du siècle envahit les âmes. C'est l'époque de la Prohibition et des fortunes rapides. En 1922, Jay Gatz, devenu Gatsby, se retrouve fabuleusement riche. Personnage mystérieux, installé à Long Island dans une somptueuse propriété il est l'objet...

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz est l'émouvant témoignage d'un écrivain charismatique, chef de file de la célèbre " génération perdue ". Non seulement ce recueil révèle un Fitzgerald extravagant, tendre et mélancolique, mais il évoque aussi une période très ancrée dans l'imaginaire...

Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre...

C'est en vain qu'à deux reprises Scott Fitzgerald proposa à son éditeur et ami Maxwell Perkins de réunir en volume un certain nombre de ses écrits personnels. Le petit nombre de ceux qui furent publiés après sa mort par Edmund Wilson dans The Crack-up a témoigné, pourtant, de leur qualité...

Innovation numérique pédagogique : adaptation de la série BILINGUE de Pocket-Langues Pour Tous ! Une nouvelle rendue encore plus célèbre par son adaptation hollywoodienne. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose : • une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes •...

Tender Is the Night is a classic romance novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in 1933 and it is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the...

While "The Great Gatsby" is a highly specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, its story is also one that has been told hundreds of times, and is perhaps as old as America itself: a man claws his way from rags to riches, only to find that his wealth cannot afford...

   A room in the down-stairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and so on....

The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran from the Midwest – who serves as the novel's narrator – takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the (fictional) village of West Egg,...

Originally published in the periodical The Metropolitan, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write...