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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…
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F Scott Fitzgerald
Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan.Over…
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When It Came To Loving… He Knew Which Daisy To Pick To a backdrop of popping champagne corks and orchestral jazz, Gatsby bids to buyout his old adversary, perennial jock…
The Great Gatsby , which F Scott Fitzgerald knew to be his masterpiece, has come be seen as perhaps the great 20th century American novel, and its protagonist, Jay Gatsby…
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the…
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For use in schools and libraries only. A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married.
All the glamour and cynicism of the dawning of the Jazz Age are on display in Fitzgerald’s debut story collection. Flappers and Philosophers contains some of his most famous early…
F. Scott Fitzgerald,F Scott Fitzgerald
Taitulo original: The Great Gatsby –Title page verso.
This, the author’s first novel, tells the story of a spoilt child in search of happiness. Wealthy, pampered and brilliant at school, Amory Blaine looks for the love of others…
Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby’s romantic dream which founders on the reality of…
Translations of: The great Gatsby, and, The curious case of Benjamin Button.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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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Tony Buttita
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…
F Fitzgerald Scott
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious…
A collection of stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz , a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby…
The novel's new incarnation, "This Side of Paradise", a largely autobiographical story about love and greed, was centered on Amory Blaine, an ambitious Midwesterner who falls in love with, but…
Covering some of the very best of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes…
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…
Dave Page
A look at the life of the Great American Novelist in St. Paul
A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character…
Tilman Hoss,Tilman Heoss
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Keoln Universiteat, 1994.
