Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

Enjoying a spectacular surge in popularity, F. Scott Fitzgerald is more widely read than ever and this collection of three of his novels is a valuable addition to the Fitzgerald library. Harvard-educated Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather's death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and is destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of fiascoes—first in hilarity, and then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a devastating portrait of the nouveaux riches, New York nightlife, reckless ambition, and squandered talent, was published in on the heels of Fitzgerald's first novel.

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It signaled his maturity as a storyteller and confirmed his enormous talent as a novelist. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of "a modern Orpheus.

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Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation.

Peter Pan Collins Classics J. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father.

At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. The screenplay differs greatly from the short story. Only the title, Benjamin's name, and most aspects of the aging process are retained in the screenplay. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the s. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Tell us what you're going to be when you grow up.

The Best Early Stories of F. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition. Written between and , when F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon.

Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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