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Alison Morretta
Learn about the exciting life and times of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the era of the Jazz Age, and its influence on Fitzgeralds greatest works.
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A. Hook
Scott Fitzgerald’s literary life was a roller-coaster ride from early success in the 1920s to oblivion by the end of the 1930s. This study focuses on Fitzgerald’s struggle to sustain…
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Ronald Berman
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers. Each chapter elaborates on a crucial aspect of F…
An adapted and illustrated edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, at an easy-to-read level for all ages!
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F Scott Fitzgerald
This handsome jacketed hardback brings together the celebrated short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald - one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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This volume of commissioned essays explores topics concerning the historical context of Fitzgerald’s writings. Its topics include the literary marketplace of the 1920s and 1930s, the influence of public figures…
Kirk Curnutt (Troy State University Montgomery, Alabama)
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s reputation as a society figure of the 1920s continues to overshadow his art. This introduction shows readers why he deserves his preeminent place in literary history, for…
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2nd edition, provides authoritative critical insight into Scott Fitzgerald's life and writings for both new readers and long-time fans. It features seven new…
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This critical edition of The Great Gatsby draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald’s subsequent revisions to key passages to provide the first authoritative…
This critical edition of The Great Gatsby draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages to provide the first authoritative…
Murray Sinclair
This humorous, historical, epistolary novel explores whether F. Scott Fitzgerald was recruited to assassinate Marshal Phillipe Petain in 1940. The protagonist is double-agent Henri Duval during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Spanning the author’s entire career, this collection of 43 of Fitzgerald’s short stories present Fitzgerald’s craftmanship, versatility, originality, and his gift for conveying the emotional tenor of characters and situations…
Elizabeth A Weston
F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Europe for a period during the 1920s and 1930s. His stories, based on this experience, show striking thematic similarities to other literary works regarding the…
Eva Weisbrod Geertz,Gerald Newman
Describes the life and work of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald –
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
Jaime Clarke
Author Jaime Clarke examines The Great Gatsy, one of the most important books in twentieth century literature.
In the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper’s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten…
Dave Page
Fitzgerald’s sensitivity about wealth and position–later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night–was bred of his St. Paul family and associations.
David S. Brown
Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation’s shifting mood and manners after WWI. Placing…
John Kuehl
This study analyzes Fitzgerald’s entire short story canon. It argues that the main themes that pervade them are lost illusion and emotional bankruptcy. It draws attention to various aspects of…
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the…
An unfound short story by the author of The Great Gatsby read in Korean and English.
"About Anson Hunter" is a translated version of the short story "The Rich Boy"…
This beautiful hardback edition presents F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel, The Great Gatsby, with brand-new, full-colour illustrations by Ludovic Salle. Whether you're approaching this work for the first time, or…
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Illustrated edition containing illustrations, a detailed summary, author biography, and a complete characters list
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an intriguing tale about a…
Illustrated Edition Includes a detailed summary of the novel Features an author biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald Provides a comprehensive list of key characters
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby…
Adaptive Reader Modern Editions: Bringing Classics to All Readers
The Great Gatsby - Adapted for Struggling Readers
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The Great Gatsby - Accessible for Everyone
Our goal is to make classic literature accessible to readers of all abilities. Adaptive…
Flame Tree Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged…
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all, yet he yearns for the one thing that will always be out of his reach, the absence of…
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Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island…
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Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. Their…
For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his…
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A one-of-a-kind, beautifully packaged and illustrated gift edition of the original 1925 printing of The Great Gatsby.
A beautiful jacketed hardback edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel, The Great Gatsby, with brand-new, full-color illustrations by Ludovic Salle.
Jay Gatsby is a mystery to Nick. On the…
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the…
Nicolas Tredell
This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald’s major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical…
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A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within…
Presents essays that examine class conflict and other related issues in The Great Gatsby, discussing such topics as class snobbery and education, the universality of class divisions, and humor and…
John T. Irwin
Irwin seamlessly ties together details from Fitzgerald’s life with elements from his entire body of work and considers central themes connected to wealth, class, work, love, jazz, acceptance, family, disillusionment…
Kim Becnel
Known for his work The Great Gatsby , a searing criticism of American society during the 1920s, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed the distinction of creating what many readers and scholars…
This new edition offers a selection of contemporary critical commentary on this classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also in this volume is an introductory essay by Yale literature…
Jarom McDonald (Brigham Young University)
Examining the ways F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community and nationhood, this book shows how narratives of attending sports and being…
Anthony J. Berret
Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature through his entire writing career, from his early Triangle Club…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s A New Leaf, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
