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Alma Books The Pat Hobby Stories Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт

Alma Books The Pat Hobby Stories Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт

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A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes – such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive – to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts • A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories – which draw from Fitzgerald’s own travails as a screenwriter – were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume подробнее
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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
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Бенджамин Баттон, с его морщинами, седой бородой и тростью, – действительно загадочный ребёнок. Пока он взрослеет, становясь всё более молодым, его семья пытается понять, почему же он обречён жить свою жизнь наоборот. В этом и других рассказах Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда заключается немалая доля личных переживаний автора, яркого представителя эпохи джаза • 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 • Издание сборника «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, входящее в серию «Penguin Modern Classics» от издательства Penguin, станет отличным подарком поклонникам творчества автора
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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
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Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст психологического романа Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда "Ночь нежна" (1934). Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нём
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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
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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
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