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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor ...

En este relato, Scott Fitzgerald nos demuestra cómo la perspectiva es fundamental a la hora de concluir lo que se ha visto. Benjamín es un hombre que nace viejo pero a medida que pasan los años va recuperando la juventud, lo cual le va a permitir ver a la sociedad que le rodea con los ojos con gran capacidad crítica, que le permite una perspectiva completamente diferente.

El gran Gatsby es el libro más famoso del escritor estadounidense F. Scott Fitzgerald. Se trata de una novela sobre el amor, la riqueza y las diferencias sociales. Relata la historia de Jay Gatsby y su deseo de recuperar a su gran amor, así como el lado oscuro de la vida de los nuevos ricos y la clase aristocrática de Estados Unidos a principios del siglo XX, específicamente en la Nueva York de los años veinte.

Often described as the great American novel, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of the Jazz Age - has become one of the most beloved and revered books of the 20th century. Narrated by the enigmatic Nick Carraway, the story takes place in the well-to-do section of Long Island, New York, where socialites and millionaires cavort about on their yachts and hydroplanes, oblivious to the day-to-day drudgery of the working-class drones they motor past each day.

Often considered one of the greatest novels in American classic literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the story about a young man named Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island in pursuit of his dream of becoming a bond salesman, and his next door neighbor, a self-made millionaire named Jay Gatsby, a man who lives a lavish lifestyle, and likes to throw extravagant parties every weekend. As the two get better acquainted, Carraway is thrust into Gatsby’s world of over the top parties, and his love and desire for a married woman he once knew named Daisy Buchanan.

The American Classics Collection: Volume II is a century-spanning collection of 15 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Adam Sims; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton; and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Herman Melville; Upton Sinclair; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Thornton Wilder; Edith Wharton; Jack London; amongst a host of others.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 10 of the greatest classic novels ever written, from British, Irish, American, and German authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Keeble, David Rintoul, and many more.

Book Two: The Education of a Personage Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, believes that he has a great destiny, but the precise nature of this destiny eludes him. He attends a preparatory school where he becomes a football quarterback. He grows estranged from his eccentric mother Beatrice Blaine and becomes the protégé of Monsignor Thayer Darcy, a Catholic priest. During his sophomore year at Princeton, he returns to Minneapolis over Christmas break and falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy debutante whom he first met as a boy. Amory and Isabelle embark upon a romance.

This Side of Paradise is a 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of unfulfilling romances with young women. The novel explores themes of love warped by greed and social ambition.

Book One: The Romantic Egotist. Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, believes that he has a great destiny, but the precise nature of this destiny eludes him. He attends a preparatory school where he becomes a football quarterback. He grows estranged from his eccentric mother Beatrice Blaine and becomes the protégé of Monsignor Thayer Darcy, a Catholic priest. During his sophomore year at Princeton, he returns to Minneapolis over Christmas break and falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy debutante whom he first met as a boy. Amory and Isabelle embark upon a romance.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Erstes Buch): Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Viertes Buch): Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Tender is the Night) ist ein Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers F. Scott Fitzgerald, der 1934 veröffentlicht wurde. Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Fünftes Buch): Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Drittes Buch): Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

Zärtlich ist die Nacht (Zweites Buch): Der autobiographisch geprägte Roman handelt vom Psychiater Richard, genannt Dick, und seiner vermögenden, psychisch labilen Gattin Nicole Diver, die sich als US-amerikanische Auswanderer an der Südküste Frankreichs mit Strandpartys und Einkaufstouren vergnügen. Dort verliebt sich Dick in die junge Schauspielerin Rosemary, doch angesichts seiner auf ihn angewiesenen Gattin Nicole führt er die Beziehung nicht fort.

The Camel's Back - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don't go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides to drown his sorrows and soon ends up attending the same costume party as Betty, dressed in an elaborate camel costume.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.

The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."