АСТ Прекрасные и обреченные. The Beautiful and Damned. Уровень 4 Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт

When Tudy’s first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in France. After she and her benefactor become close, she agrees to marry him in Provence later that year. But as the wedding approaches, Tom discovers that his fiancee has become involved with Riccard, a dashing French pilot and his near-double • A tale of broken trust and infidelity based on Zelda Fitzgerald’s own dalliance with a French pilot, ‘Image on the Heart’ is here presented with other lesser-known stories written by Fitzgerald in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which develop many of the themes found in his novels and his more famous works of short fiction • Contains: ‘Zone of Accident’, ‘Fate in Her Hands’, ‘Image on the Heart’, ‘Too Cute for Words’, ‘Inside the House’, ‘Three Acts of Music’, ‘An Author’s Mother’, ‘“Trouble”’, ‘The Guest in Room Nineteen’, ‘In the Holidays’, ‘The End of Hate’, ‘On an Ocean Wave’, ‘The Woman from Twenty-One’ and ‘Discard (Director’s Special)’

A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river • A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are central to many of Fitzgerald’s novels and stories, ‘The Love Boat’ is here presented with other lesser-known pieces which he wrote in the 1920s and explore the many facets of his creative talents • Contains: ‘The Smilers’, ‘Myra Meets His Family’, ‘Two for a Cent’, ‘Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar’, ‘Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman’, ‘The Third Casket’, ‘The Unspeakable Egg’, ‘John Jackson’s Arcady’, ‘The Pusher-in-the-Face’, ‘One of My Oldest Friends’, ‘Not in the Guidebook’, ‘Presumption’, ‘The Adolescent Marriage’, ‘Your Way and Mine’ and ‘The Love Boat’

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again – against the wishes of her in-laws – and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about • A poignant tale of thwarted love, ‘The Intimate Strangers’ explores many of Fitzgerald’s favourite themes, such as the constraints of society on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night

The classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda-from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, The Beautiful and Damned depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw "with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries • "By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted "will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour and debauchery • Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896—1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, «The Beautiful and Damned» is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche and New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition

Подарочное издание романа «Прекрасные и проклятые» Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда • Энтони Пэтч – яркий представитель общественной элиты 1920-х годов и предполагаемый наследник огромного состояния. Он и его жена Глория молоды и красивы, богаты и изнежены, и посвящают свою жизнь бесшабашной погоне за счастьем. Однако их истории суждено стать несчастливой, ведь их брак распадается под весом их ожиданий, разнузданности, ревности и бесцельности • Фицджеральд мастерски изображает элиту восточного побережья США на заре эпохи джаза, объединяя все общественные классы в то, что вскоре будет известно как общество кафе. Как и остальные романы Фицджеральда, «Прекрасные и проклятые» – блестящее исследование человеческой натуры, написанное изумительной авторской прозой

Роман "По эту сторону рая" рассказывает историю Эмори Блейна, единственного ребенка богатых родителей, чей путь от юности к взрослой жизни следует за ним от подготовительной школы до Принстонского университета, где его литературные таланты процветают, в отличие от его академических неудач • "Прекрасные и проклятые" - это более мрачная версия разрушительной силы богатства и его привилегий, одной из постоянных тем Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда. Энтони Пэтч, наследник огромного состояния, чей брак с красивой и праздной Глорией все больше омрачается из-за того, что Энтони впадает в алкоголизм. Хотя он выигрывает судебный процесс, чтобы получить свое наследство в миллионы долларов, это пиррова победа, поскольку теперь он физически и морально сломленный человек

‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ • John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age • In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence • Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries

The magnificent attitude of not giving a damn ... and to seek the moment's happiness as fervently and persistently as possible • It's New York during the Jazz Age. Anthony and Gloria Patch are a rich and beautiful couple who drink and dance away their days in glorious decadence as they wait for an inheritance to materialize. Gloria has always relied on her beauty to get her everything she wants (including a wealthy husband), while Anthony is Harvard-educated with a yen for the finer things of life. Blinded by the notion of future wealth, they push the boat out further and further until they find themselves far from shore and baling fast • This is a brilliant study of a marriage that begins to reel under the effects of too much booze as the doomed couple fall into indolence and out of love

Победителю принадлежит вся добыча • Энтони и Глория Пэтч - яркие представители нью-йоркской модной тусовки 1920-х годов, ведущие жизнь в роскоши, праздности и потакании своим желаниям. Но гламур эпохи джаза имеет свою цену, и из-за неопределенности с наследством Энтони декадентский образ жизни пары начинает разваливаться. Энтони не может удержаться на работе, и пара впадает в алкоголизм и депрессию по мере того, как их финансы и брак рушатся. Увлекательная повесть Фицджеральда о растраченном таланте "Прекрасные и обреченные" - классический рассказ о так называемом потерянном поколении • Книга на английском языке • The victor belongs to the spoils • Anthony and Gloria Patch are the bright lights of the 1920s New York smart set and lead a life of luxury, idleness and indulgence

Энтони Пэтч и его жена Глория – наглядный пример гламура в эпоху джаза. Прекрасная, притягательная пара, они живут ярко и энергично. Нью-Йорк – их бар и танцевальная площадка, а их брак – страстная театральная постановка. Они молоды, богаты, живы и полны сил, а весь мир принадлежит им. Но стоит кошельку истощиться, их брак вдруг становится немыслимо хрупким. Теперь им придётся встать лицом к лицу с жестокой реальностью и осознать, что пусть они и прекрасны, но они так же прокляты • В истории Американской литературы Фицджеральд стал почти мифологической фигурой, а его роман «Великий Гэтсби» многими считается величайшим американским романом. В 1920 году он женился на Зельде Сейр, звезде ранней американской эмансипации. Их нездоровый брак и прогрессирующее безумие жены оказали ключевое влияние на творчество писателя и легли в основу этого романа