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Con la inevitabilidad de una brújula giró la cabeza hacia la mesa de la acusada y volvió a mirar fijamente la cara enorme e inexpresiva de la asesina, adornada por unos ojos que parecían dos botones rojos. Era la señora Choynski, de soltera Delehanty, y el destino había dispuesto que un día agarrara un hacha de carnicero y partiera en dos a su amante, un marinero. Las manos hinchadas que habían blandido el arma no dejaban de darle vueltas a un tintero; varias veces miró hacia el público con una sonrisa nerviosa.

Basil Duke Lee cerró la puerta de la calle a sus espaldas y encendió la luz del comedor. La voz de su madre le llegó soñolienta a través de las escaleras. "Basil, ¿eres tú?" "No, mamá, es un ladrón." "No creo que las doce sean horas de volver a casa para un chico de quince años." "Hemos ido a Smith, a tomar un refresco." Cuando una nueva responsabilidad recaía sobre Basil, entonces era "un chico de casi dieciséis años", pero, cuando se le discutía algún privilegio, sólo era "un chico de quince años".

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Part II of The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald pushes Anthony Patch and Gloria further into a world where privilege can no longer protect them from disappointment. Money, marriage, ambition, and expectation begin to collide as their...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert as love, privilege, and ambition collide with the seductive excess of early twentieth-century New York. Part I introduces their glamorous world of wealth...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Part III of The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald brings Anthony Patch and Gloria to the final stage of their decline. The glamour that once defined their lives gives way to frustration, damaged ambition, and the consequences of years shaped...

This short story begins on a yacht anchored off the Florida coast where a young woman, Ardita, and her Uncle are engaged in a heated discussion about her dating decisions. Ardita, independent and stubborn, is set on marrying a young man who her uncle believes does not have the highest character...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert through the glittering excess of Jazz Age New York, where privilege, pleasure, and expectation gradually give way to disillusionment. As wealth replaces purpose...

Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since married for money. Holding on to his illusion of Daisy as perfect...

It is 1925, and Richard Diver is the high priest of the good life on the white sands of the French Riviera. The Beautiful People – film stars, socialites, aristocrats – gather eagerly and bitchily around him and his wife Nicole. Beneath the breathtaking glamour, however, is a world of pain, and there is at the core of their lives a brittle hollowness. Beautiful, powerful and tragic, Tender is the Night is one of the great works of American fiction.

In the early 20th century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite. Self-absorbed and vain, Gloria Gilbert jumps at the chance to marry Anthony, and the pair embark on a downward spiral that illustrates their selfishness and leaves them both unfulfilled.

Narración del ajetreado viaje de F.S. Fitzgerald y su mujer Zelda, en un viejo Marmon de 1917 de segunda mano, desde Westport Connecticut a Montgomery (Alabama).

L'idea di un racconto con protagonista un uomo dalla vita al contrario non era un'idea originale di Fitzgerald. Come ammise lo stesso scrittore statunitense nella nota introduttiva a "Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button": "Questo racconto fu ispirato da un'osservazione di Mark Twain: cioè, che era un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita venisse all'inizio e la peggiore alla fine."

"¡Me acuerdo de cómo venías a buscarme desesperada cuando Josephine tenía unos tres años!" - exclamó la señora Bray. George estaba de mal humor porque aún no había decidido a qué dedicarse, y solía darle unos azotes a la pequeña Josephine. "Sí, me acuerdo", dijo la madre de Josephine. Y aquí esta Josephine. En efecto, allí estaba Josephine. Miró a la señora Bray y sonrió, y la mirada de la señora Bray se hizo imperceptiblemente más dura. Josephine siguió sonriendo. "¿Cuántos años tienes, Josephine?" "Acabo de cumplir dieciséis."

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the summer of 1922 on Long Island, Nick Carraway narrates his encounter with the mysterious, fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby, whose glittering parties hide an obsessive love for the elusive Daisy Buchanan. A...

The American Classics Collection: Volume II is a century-spanning collection of 15 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Adam Sims; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton; and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Herman Melville; Upton Sinclair; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Thornton Wilder; Edith Wharton; Jack London; amongst a host of others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald published this captivating short story in 1926, a year after The Great Gatsby. One of his most famous short stories, Fitzgerald wrote “The Rich Boy” about one of his friends in the guise of a wealthy, old-money protagonist, Anson Hunter, and the effects of wealth on his...

Nick Carraway has moved to start a new life in New York. His neighbour is the mysterious Gatsby – a man who seems to have everything. But the thing he desires above all is his lost love. Daisy leads a joyless married life but will she be willing to leave it behind for Gatsby?

Experience five defining masterpieces of American literature—novels of love and war, ambition and illusion, family and ruin, crime and consequence. The Great American Classics Audio Collection gathers Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Dashiell Hammett into one essential library of American storytelling, performed by acclaimed narrators Grover Gardner and Sean Pratt. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms remains the premier American novel of World War I. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as the defining portrait of the Jazz Age.

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mystiers - puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries. With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and...

The Great Gatsby, a work that seriously examines the theme of aspiration in an American setting, defines the classic American novel. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.