Tales Of The Jazz Age Viii

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age V is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams, deal with wealthy protagonists - the old- money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - as they come to terms with lost love

F.S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. Tales of Jazz Age VI is a wonderful short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style. The collection contains six stories, including Absolution in which a boy confesses to a priest and The Sensible Thing, where George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories — all of them had been published earlier, independently. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, the collection includes one of the author's better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and other great works

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure • Tales of the Jazz Age features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’, as well as lesser-known sketches and tales, this diverse selection, compiled by Fitzgerald himself from material published in newspapers and magazines, showcases both the variety of his writing and early examples of the themes and characters which would find their way into his later novels

Подарочное издание сборника Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда • «Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона» повествует о том, как родившийся в 1860 году малыш проживает свою жизнь наоборот. Сам Фицджеральд намекал на сходство с этим персонажем, когда называл, что поколение его эпохи, «повзрослев, обнаружило, что боги мертвы, все войны окончены, а человек лишён всякой веры». Пожалуй, рассказы Фицджеральда отражают боль этого поколения лучше всего в американской литературе. В собранных в этом издании рассказах Фицджеральд описывает США эпохи джаза с присущей ему смесью восторга и разочарования • Издание сборника «Tales of the Jazz Age» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда станет отличным подарком поклонникам творчества автора • Книга на английском языке