This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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The Definitive Edition of This Side of Paradise
- Carefully selected period photos illustrating the text
- Complete and unabridged edition

‘Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers’ Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian

‘The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale’ New York Times

‘A memorable and deeply moving piece of work’ Richard Church

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel and was a massive success on its release, its first print run sold out in three days.

It resonated with the bright and brittle young things of the Jazz Age and launched Fitzgerald on his legendary career. It is a classic coming of age tale written with the passion and verve of a young man desperate for wealth and fame so that he can marry the woman he loves.

This is the definitive, complete, original version in a stylishly presented edition with ten carefully selected pictures of the period. The images put the text in context as well as illustrate the story. It also includes a linked table of contents so you can quickly go to the part you want.

Synopsis

Amory Blaine’s adolescence and youth are described, as he evolves into a ‘personage’. His mother is a rich and eccentric woman who raises him in an unorthodox manner. The handsome young man attends St Regis prep school, followed by a period at Princeton University. He pursues literature and love with idle brilliance. After a spell in the army, he works in advertising and falls in love with a New York debutante called Rosalind.

Other books by F. Scott Fitzgerald available in the Classic Books Editions featuring period photographs

THE GREAT GATSBY
http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/
http://www.amazon.com/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp /B00AY4OM74/

WATER, A Novel/Dark/Funny Romance by Jasper Joffe

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WATER-Novel-Funny-Romance-ebook/dp/B00AKCEWZM/

http://www.amazon.com/WATER-Novel-Funny-Romance-ebook/dp/B00AKCEWZM/


'A page turner.’ -- Matthew Collings

'I love this book because it is so true. The argument scenes feel real; they are bruising. But the book is also funny. It is written in a breathless, bitty style which reminds me of Dunthorne's Submarine. The main character is egotistical but somehow you love him because he tries so hard to please others around him and is so aware (and yet unaware, too) of his faults.' Paloma

'A sort of absurdist, amoral fable ... There is something exquisitely tragic about Water's life, a repetitive parade of posh restaurants, press views and disinterested flings. Ultimately, he's a tad boring - not something you could say about the novel he stars in.' Richard Godwin, Literary Review

“Hilarious reading ... it's hard not to like him.” Dogmatika.com

Can success buy happiness or is love more important?

Find out in this quirky funny novel written and illustrated by the acclaimed artist Jasper Joffe.

Meet Nathaniel Water
A young artist with a complicated love life and a character you won’t forget once you’ve got to know him. While his career is taking off, his love life descends into an ever-deepening mess. First he proposes marriage to his beautiful Slovak girlfriend, Jelena, with whom he fights constantly. But they split up almost as soon as they’re engaged. He then meets Harriet, Jelena's opposite, and marries her instead. But that’s not the end of it. Both women become pregnant at different stages, he leaves each of them at least once, and deserts both when they most need him. This wryly comic novel reveals the dangers of celebrity, and some complicated problems you'll enjoy seeing Nathaniel Water try to work out.

Flappers & Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.amazon.co.uk/FLAPPERS-PHILOSOPHERS-illustrated-Fitzgerald-ebook/dp/B00BIUA8PI/

http://www.amazon.com/FLAPPERS-PHILOSOPHERS-illustrated-Fitzgerald-ebook/dp/B00BIUA8PI/



FLAPPERS & PHILOSOPHERS
-illustrated with beautiful period photos
-complete and unabridged edition of the original stories
-formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-linked table of contents to reach your story quickly

‘Flappers and Philosophers is an excellent short story collection from a writer who was in the early years of his career. It's a treat for fans of Fitzgerald's novels and a good starting point for those who have not yet read his brilliant prose.’ Literary Lindsey

‘Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers’ Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

‘With the skill of a reporter and ability of an artist he captured the essence of a period when flappers and gin and "the beautiful and the damned" were the symbols of the carefree madness of an age.’ New York Times

FLAPPERS & PHILOSOPHERS is Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories including 8 classics such as ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ and ‘Dalyrimple Goes Wrong.’

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre.

His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously.

In 1922 Scribners published ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, of which The New York Times reviewer said that the ‘general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.’

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote his masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael, France.

His fourth novel ‘Tender is the Night’ received a poor critical reaction when it came out in 1934. Fitzgerald was eventually forced to try to earn a living as a screenwriter.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon’ (unfinished).

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Virginia Woolf

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BF0JOLU/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BF0JOLU/

The Definitive Edition of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
-Illustrated with period photos
-Complete and unabridged text
-Active table of contents to quickly go to the chapter you want

“To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” –Margaret Drabble

“One of the hundred best novels published since 1923” Time Magazine

“Once you've settled into it, you'll discover a wonderful book, a tale of everyday life lived. Both intensely personal and incredibly universal, this book is life itself” William Krischke

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is Virginia’s Woolf’s masterpiece which she described as “easily the best of my books”

Synopsis

‘TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is a book in three parts, in three movements. All of it is laid at the Summer home of an English family named Ramsay in the Hebrides, the first portion occupying an afternoon and evening, the second portion constituting an interlude of ten years during which the house remains unoccupied, the third portion occupying a morning at the end of these ten years. The Ramsays are a middle-aged couple, when the book opens, with eight children, who have with them at their Summer place about half a dozen friends. Husband and wife, though very different, are in love with each other. Mrs. Ramsay, who though fifty is beautiful, has charm, intelligence, understanding; also she is a little anxious to have a hand in things, a little anxious to be liked, a little anxious to keep her illusions and have others keep theirs. Her children love her; they do not love their father--she works harder to hold their love. The best minds about her seemingly mistrust her a little, dislike her a little, for her charm is persuasive rather than compelling. She watches those about her without mingling too much; both because she chooses a vantage point--symbolized by the window--and because of her personality she becomes the dominant and focal figure of the group.’ New York Times

About Virginia Woolf

“Virginia Woolf was a multifarious creature - fluent, iconoclastic, vulnerable, savage, high-minded, low-minded, and intermittently insane.” Edna O’Brien, New York Times

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882, into a distinguished intellectual family. In 1905 she started meeting with friends to discuss literary and artistic topics, they would later become known as the Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912 when she was 30, and they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Having struggled with depression all her life, she drowned herself in 1941.

Her novels are:
The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob's Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
The Waves (1931)
The Years (1937)
Between the Acts (1941)

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MRS-DALLOWAY-illustrated-ebook/dp/B00BE5PD0M/

http://www.amazon.com/MRS-DALLOWAY-illustrated-ebook/dp/B00BE5PD0M/

-Illustrated with period photos
-Complete and unabridged text

“One of the hundred best novels published since 1923” Time Magazine

"Mrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English . . . It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

MRS DALLOWAY is Virginia’s Woolf’s innovative masterpiece which takes you into the head of the eponymous character in a way that will leave an unforgettable impression on you.

Synopsis

Written without chapters in a long stream of consciousness narrative, Mrs. Dalloway is set on a single day in June 1923. We follow Clarissa Dalloway, the elegant wife of a Member of Parliament and the perfect London hostess, through the course of this day which is will culminate in the party she is throwing that evening.

About Virginia Woolf

“Virginia Woolf was a multifarious creature - fluent, iconoclastic, vulnerable, savage, high-minded, low-minded, and intermittently insane.” Edna O’Brien, New York Times

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882, into a distinguished intellectual family. In 1905 she started meeting with friends to discuss literary and artistic topics, they would later become known as the Bloomsbury Group. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912 when she was 30, and they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Having struggled with depression all her life, she drowned herself in 1941.

Her novels are:
The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob's Room (1922)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
The Waves (1931)
The Years (1937)
Between the Acts (1941)

The Complete Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.amazon.co.uk/COMPLETE-NOVELS-SCOTT-FITZGERALD-ebook/

http://www.amazon.com/COMPLETE-NOVELS-SCOTT-FITZGERALD-ebook/




THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Complete and unabridged collection of all his novels, with beautiful period photos and easy navigation.

Includes:
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
THE GREAT GATSBY
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
THE LAST TYCOON

'Great value and wonderful reading' Literary Classics

‘Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers’ Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

‘With the skill of a reporter and ability of an artist he captured the essence of a period when flappers and gin and "the beautiful and the damned" were the symbols of the carefree madness of an age.’ New York Times

Read all five of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novels in this stunning collection of the great American writer. Fitzgerald defined his time and is widely considered to be one of the most important and readable authors of the twentieth century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously.

In 1922 Scribners published ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, of which The New York Times reviewer said that the ‘general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.’

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote his masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael, France.

His fourth novel ‘Tender is the Night’ received a poor critical reaction when it came out in 1934. Fitzgerald was eventually forced to try to earn a living as a screenwriter.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon’ (unfinished).

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-of-War-ebook/dp/B009WA0HRK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009WA0HRK


Sun Tzu's classic text is given an overhaul for the digital generation in this new edition with an accessible introduction by Erik Empson, editor of generation-online and breathtaking new illustrations by RCA artist, Simeon Banner.
The essay questions the appropriateness of applying Sun Tzu's lessons to the modern business world and offers an engaging reevaluation of how this timeless work has been used and abused. This British English edition is edited to read as straightforward prose and is ideal for reading on the go. The book will appeal to a wide general audience as well as students of history, politics and business and management. The illustrations offer an exciting new visual dialogue with Sun Tzu's legendary words.

"This new edition stands Sun Tzu back on his feet after having been upended by convenient readings in both business and politics. Restored in its original context and textual continuity, the Art of War, as the insightful introduction makes clear, is much more applicable today to the war of the corporation against the consumer and the planet, than it is to the conspiracies of shared power amongst so many corporations and politicians."

Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Lee Kong Chain School of Business, Singapore Management University

**Erik Empson and Simeon Banner have also collaborated on a beautiful new edition of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings.**

Download it here: www.amazon.com/The-Book-Five-Rings-ebook/dp/B00AO8Q6EW/

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B8Z0Y5C/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B8Z0Y5C/

The Definitive Edition of This Side of Paradise
- Carefully selected period photos illustrating the text
- Complete and unabridged edition

‘Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers’ Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian

‘The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale’ New York Times

‘A memorable and deeply moving piece of work’ Richard Church

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel and was a massive success on its release, its first print run sold out in three days.

It resonated with the bright and brittle young things of the Jazz Age and launched Fitzgerald on his legendary career. It is a classic coming of age tale written with the passion and verve of a young man desperate for wealth and fame so that he can marry the woman he loves.

This is the definitive, complete, original version in a stylishly presented edition with ten carefully selected pictures of the period. The images put the text in context as well as illustrate the story. It also includes a linked table of contents so you can quickly go to the part you want.

Synopsis

Amory Blaine’s adolescence and youth are described, as he evolves into a ‘personage’. His mother is a rich and eccentric woman who raises him in an unorthodox manner. The handsome young man attends St Regis prep school, followed by a period at Princeton University. He pursues literature and love with idle brilliance. After a spell in the army, he works in advertising and falls in love with a New York debutante called Rosalind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously.

In 1922 Scribners published ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, of which The New York Times reviewer said that the ‘general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.’

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote his masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael, France.

His fourth novel ‘Tender is the Night’ received a poor critical reaction when it came out in 1934. Fitzgerald was eventually forced to try to earn a living as a screenwriter.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon’ (unfinished).

Other books by F. Scott Fitzgerald available in the Classic Books Editions featuring period photographs

THE GREAT GATSBY
http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/

http://www.amazon.com/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp /B00AY4OM74/

The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B9PCMT2

http://www.amazon.com//dp/B00B9PCMT2

THE LAST TYCOON
Also known as ‘The Love of the Last Tycoon’
Fitzgerald’s unfinished final novel with period photos

‘It would have been Fitzgerald's best novel…it is the best piece of creative writing that we have about one phase of American life - Hollywood and the movies’ New York Times

‘Reading this book will remind you of Fitzgerald's genius and make you mourn the novels he might have written.’ Literary Lindsey

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD died before he could complete THE LAST TYCOON, also known as ‘The Love of the Last Tycoon’. Even unfinished it is one of the great pieces of writing on Hollywood, and magically condenses Fitzgerald’s experiences as a screenwriter.

This is the original published version of ‘The Last Tycoon’ in a stylishly presented edition with ten carefully selected pictures of the period. The images put the text in context as well as illustrate the story. It also includes a linked table of contents so you can quickly go to the part you want.

Synopsis

The character of Monroe Stahr was inspired by the life of film producer Irving Thalberg. Stahr is a Hollywood tycoon who has conquered the silver screen. The narrator of ‘The Last Tycoon’ is Cecelia, daughter of a Hollywood movie producer. Her father’s business partner is Stahr. Cecelia falls is in love with him, but her rival is an Englishwoman, Kathleen, who reminds Stahr of his dead wife Minna.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously.

In 1922 Scribners published ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, of which The New York Times reviewer said that the ‘general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.’

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote his masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael, France.

His fourth novel ‘Tender is the Night’ received a poor critical reaction when it came out in 1934. Fitzgerald was eventually forced to try to earn a living as a screenwriter.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon’ (unfinished).

Other books by F. Scott Fitzgerald available in the Classic Books Editions featuring period photographs

THE GREAT GATSBY
http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/
http://www.amazon.com/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp /B00AY4OM74/

First Love, Ivan Turgenev

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BC0IKNG/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BC0IKNG/

FIRST LOVE
-illustrated with beautiful period photos
-complete and unabridged novella
-original translation

“Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written.” H. Matar

“One of the thousand novels everyone should read” The Guardian

“In so much of Turgenev's finest fiction, love fades, slips away, vanishes before it can even flower.” New York Times

A young man falls in love with his beautiful new neighbour only to discover that she is his father’s mistress. First Love is widely considered to be one of the greatest love stories of Russian literature. Ivan Turgenev’s classic novella is presented with beautiful period photos and in the original 1897 translation.

“There was in the girl's movements something so enchanting, imperious and caressing, so mocking and charming, that I nearly cried out with wonder and delight... I forgot everything; my eyes devoured the graceful figure, the lovely neck, the beautiful arms, the slightly dishevelled fair hair under the white kerchief—and the half-closed, perceptive eye, the lashes, the soft cheek beneath them..." from First Love by Ivan Turgenev

The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Definitive Edition of The Beautiful and Damned

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B37ET42/

http://www.amazon.co.uk//dp/B00B37ET42/

Complete and unabridged edition of the original text with period photos

‘Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers’ Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian

‘Fitzgerald writes beautifully of both the decadence of wealth and the despair of having only change in your pocket’ Literary Lindsey

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED is the story of Anthony and Gloria, a glamorous New York couple at the beginning of the Jazz Age. Despite the privileges of wealth and position they squander everything on drink and parties. They may be beautiful but are they also damned?

This is the definitive, complete, original version in a stylishly presented edition with ten pictures of the Jazz Age and beyond. The images put the text in context as well as illustrate the story. It also includes a linked table of contents so you can quickly go to the part you want.

Synopsis

Anthony Patch is a young man waiting for his inheritance. He goes to Harvard in 1905 and graduates in 1909, shortly before he turns twenty one. He meets the beautiful Gloria Gilbert in 1913, and he marries her the year after. He is drafted into the army in 1917 and is discharged in November 1918. Prohibition comes in 1919 but does not reduce Anthony’s drinking. He and Gloria live in Manhattan where they party for days on end, until money becomes tight and the strains of their stormy marriage begin to show. Finally they embark on the Berengeria, a luxury liner, and the novel ends

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously.

In 1922 Scribners published ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, of which The New York Times reviewer said that the ‘general atmosphere of the book is an atmosphere of futility, waste and the avoidance of effort, into which the fumes of whisky penetrate more and more, until at last it fairly reeks with them.’

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote his masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael, France.

His fourth novel ‘Tender is the Night’ received a poor critical reaction when it came out in 1934. Fitzgerald was eventually forced to try to earn a living as a screenwriter.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon' (incomplete at his death).

Other books by F. Scott Fitzgerald available in the Classic Books Editions featuring period photographs

THE GREAT GATSBY
http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/
http://www.amazon.com/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-ebook/dp /B00AY4OM74/