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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'.
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F Scott Fitzgerald
Celebrate an unforgettable classic, with this Special Edition of The Great Gatsby!
Only this CLASSICS MADE EASY(TM) edition includes a comprehensive 340-WORD GLOSSARY. Now you can fully UNDERSTAND the historical…
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The story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby’s effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic…
The Great Gatsby, published in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a classic novel set in the opulent, fast-paced world of the Roaring Twenties.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of the Jazz Age.
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York…
All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald was disillusioned and having money problems when wrote the stories. He believed…
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald delves into the glittering yet tumultuous world of Amory Blaine as he navigates love, ambition, and disillusionment in post-World War I America…
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…
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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 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…
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Crazy Sunday, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Jarom McDonald (Brigham Young University),Jarom McDonald
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Andrew Shaffer
Jay Z. Catsby is a furry who spends his days and nights in a cat costume, pining away for Dick’s cousin Dandelion, a manic-pixie Brooklynite with a brutish husband. Will…
Jay Z. Catsby throws the sickest parties on the Jersey Shore…but will his romantic obsession cost him all nine of his lives? An outrageous parody from NYTimes bestseller Andrew Shaffer…
Tony Buttita
Chris Messenger
Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sentimental Identities is a major examination of Fitzgerald’s 1934 masterpiece as the clearest exemplar of Fitzgerald’s sentimentalism, a mode that shaped his…
Horst H. Kruse
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work probes the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing of the novel, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,Kirk Curnutt
Gathered to commemorate the centennial of both Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s 1920 marriage and the beginning of the Jazz Age they symbolize, All of the Belles captures all the winsome…
Arthur Mizener
The Far Side of Paradise was the first ever biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, widely acclaimed as a sensitive, scholarly appraisal of the writer’s life and work. Arthur Mizener has…
Scott F. Fitzgerald
When F. Scott Fitzgerald was fourteen and living in St. Paul, he began keeping a short diary of his exploits among his friends, friendly rivals, and crushes. The Thoughtbook includes…
James L. W. West III
A collection of eleven essays on the career and texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the delicate balance in Fitzgerald’s career between money and literary respectability.
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Tobias Bumm
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Stuttgart, 29 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction […] I…
