Una de las ventajas de leer los libros es que uno se da cuenta de los detalles que no vienen en la película. En esté caso, el libro no tiene NADA que ver con la película. ¿En dónde está la criada que lo adopta? ¿El padre que lo rechaza? ¿La chica por la que él lucha? El libro es más triste y crue...
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and afte...
At last I have read all the novels of Fitzgerald and now I can officially say that this novel is my favourite. Yes that is true, many professional literary critics consider it to be the most immature and imperfect work of Fitzgerald, but still I like it and nothing will change my opinion. This n...
*4,5 stars* Tender Is the Night is my first attempt at reading one of Fitzgerald’s works. Before I started this book, I knew very little about Francis Scott Fitzgerald. I knew he was probably the most important American author of the 1920’s. His books were about rich, privileged people that turn...
Casual, self-absorbed decadence, the evaporation of social grace, money calling all the shots and memories of the past holding people hostage from the future that lies before them. Yes, Mr. Fitzgerald has nailed it and written one of THE great American novels. This book was a surprise. I LOVED it...
As you may know, Reader, I struggled to get through George Eliot's masterpiece (cue massive eyeroll) Middlemarch. Refer to my review for a detailed explanation, or just read the next sentence of this one. It was boring, basically. There isn't really a plot, it's just a description of some people ...
“Babylon Revisited”: A Portrait of the Vulnerable ManF. Scott Fitzgerald has a great talent to portray the inner world of human beings. He explores the subconscious elements of the human mind in his story, and the reader can contemplate how one can be strong and vulnerable at the same time. In “B...
Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew...
It is hard not to agree with great writers and critics, like Gertrude Stein and T.S. Eliot, who have maintained that nobody embodied and epitomized the voice of his own generation like Fitzgerald, after reading his work. 'Flappers and Philosophers', Fitzgerald's first short story collection, is n...
This collection contains all 19 stories from Fitzgerald's first two published collections - Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age:Flappers and PhilosophersThe Offshore Pirate The Ice PalaceHead and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl Bernice Bobs Her Hair Benediction Dalyrimple Goes Wrong ...
I have now read all of Fitzgerald's major published works. After finishing The Love of The Last Tycoon, the incomplete manuscript on his desk when he died, I ask immediately wonder how this novel differs from his other works. Did he know he had this one last chance to voice his ideas? Did he comp...
"Der große Gatsby" (1925) führt den Leser direkt ins New York der Goldenen Zwanziger. Jazzmusik, Wolkenkratzer, unerhörter Reichtum, finanzielle Leichtfertigkeit, Intrigen und grenzenlose Liebe - nichts fehlt in diesem meisterhaften Gesellschaftsportrait. Vor dem Hintergrund der lauten, wilden am...
Scott Fitzgerald UK (Illustrated) /**/ PRINCETON This essay was originally written for a series on American colleges printed in College Humor in 1927. In preparatory school and up to the middle of sophomore year in college, it worried me that I wasn’t going and hadn...
He wept because the afternoons were warm and long, and he was unable to attain a complete mystical union with our Lord. Sometimes, near four o’clock, there was a rustle of Swede girls along the path by his window, and in their shrill laughter he found a terrible dissonance that made him pray alou...
The windows in the living-room of the gray house are wide open, patiently exchanging the tainted inner atmosphere of liquor and smoke for the fresh drowsiness of the late hot dusk. There are dyingflower scents upon the air, so thin, so fragile, as to hint already of a summer laid away in time. Bu...
Some of them had been freshmen, and wild freshmen, with Amory; some were in the class below; and it was in the beginning of his last year and around small tables at the Nassau Inn that they began questioning aloud the institutions that Amory and countless others before him had questioned so long ...
This is Rags talking to you, don't you understand, John? I want you to sit here and not move until I come back!" A minute later she had crossed the room under cover of the darkness. "Baron Marchbanks," she whispered softly, standing just behind his chair. He motioned her to sit down. "Have you ro...