F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel is the story of movie mogul Monroe Stahr. Through Stahr's struggles, Fitzgerald depicts the glamour and greed of 1930s Hollywood. This text, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, restores the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the original edition, giving new luster to a literary gem, and offering a rare glimpse into the process of one of America's greatest writers." --From jacket...
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"The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. Anthony and Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured and they dedicate their lives to the pursuit of happiness and we follow the intimate story of their marriage as it disintegrates under the weight of their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 20
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Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her mother. Rosemary becomes infatuated with Dick and becomes close to Nicole. Dick toys with the idea of having an affair with Rosemary. Rosemary senses something is wrong with the couple, which is brought to light when one of the...
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"Known not only for his brilliant novels bur also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espírtu de la generación de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sí mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su país: la combinación de dinero, ambición y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta de moraleja--sobre...
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Library of America volume 353
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"It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's voice is "full of money"), its dominance of high school and...
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The Vegetable, or From President to Postman is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that he developed into a play. In the original publication of The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (1923), F. Scott Fitzgerald included the following quotation on the title page: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has-he's...