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This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, and many more. This superlative treasury includes "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Piece of String" by Guy Le Maupassant; "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin; "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf; "Nuns at Lunch" by Aldous Huxley, and many more!

Esta novela corta, enfrenta dos mundos irreconciliables: el lujo, el optimismo y el dinero contrapuestos a la desdicha, la pobreza y la apatía vital. Gordon Sterrett, como Jim Powell en "El gominola", buscará su absolución en un ensueño de juventud y encanto que le rechaza: el infierno no cabe en el paraíso. Por su lado pasan fugazmente personajes como Edith Bradin, hermosa encarnación de cuanto Gordon ha perdido; los soldados Key y Rose, reverso patético del fulgor del grand monde, y los grotescos señor Entrada y señor Salida, figuras bufas cuyas cómicas intervenciones contribuirán a resaltar la magnitud del dramático desenlace.

"Cuentos rebeldes" es una antología de relatos cortos de Francis Scott Fitzgerald en la que el autor nos muestra su lado más mordaz y a la vez juguetón a la hora de aproximarse a sus reflexiones sobre el alma humana, sobre la sociedad estadounidense de su época y sobre el desencanto de toda su generación.

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.

Elegant, enigmatic Jay Gatsby yearns for his old love, the beautiful Daisy. But she is married to the insensitive if hugely successful Tom Buchanan, who won’t let her go despite having a mistress himself. In their wealthy haven, these beguiling lives are brought together by the innocent and entranced narrator, Nick – until their decadent deceits spill into violence and tragedy. Part morality tale, part fairy tale, The Great Gatsby is the consummate novel of the Jazz Age. Its tenderness and poetry make it one of the great works of the 20th century.

La historia comienza con una joven aristócrata, Ardita, en un yate anclado cerca de la costa. Ella está leyendo La revuelta de los ángeles de Anatole de France. Ella discute con su tío exasperado que intenta casarla con un joven llamado Toby.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald nació en Saint Paul, Minnesota, el 24 de septiembre de 1896. Su obra refleja los problemas de la juventud de su país en los años subsiguientes a la Primera Guerra Mundial.  

Y un día que fui a Tarleton a cortarme el pelo me encontré a un tal Bill Knowles, un antiguo compañero de Harvard, muy simpático. Había formado parte de la división de la Guardia Nacional que nos había precedido en el campamento; a última hora se había pasado a la aviación y se había quedado en Tarleton. "Me alegro de verte, Andy", dijo con excesiva seriedad. "Te pasaré toda la información que tengo antes de irme a Texas. Sabes, en realidad aquí sólo hay tres chicas..." "Me interesaba el asunto: era algo místico que sólo hubiese tres chicas. ... y ahora mismo vas a conocer a una."

Obra que retrata la decadencia y la rebeldía de un escritor frente a los poderosos estudios de cine de los años treinta. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, 24 de septiembre de 1896) fue un escritor estadounidense, conocido por ser uno de los escritores más aclamados del país durante el siglo XX, cuya obra es paradigmática a la era del jazz.

At the urging of his darling Ms. Harmon, Talbot finds himself on a Christmas Eve mission to give away all the money in his pockets. Not quite as easy to do as one might think, Talbot soon realizes, as his generosity is rebuffed with scorn and a punch in the nose. The wry, touching ending is filled with charity and optimism as Talbot returns home sans money, but with two new acquaintances.

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family. Includes F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Luckless Santa Claus", "A Christmas Dinner" by Charles Dickens, O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi", the hilarious "Reginald on Christmas Presents" by Saki (H.H. Munro), and a tender scene exerpted from Little Women.

Carefree, party loving Amory Blaine leaves his home in Minnesota for Princeton University, with his sight set on a high-energy career in New York City. At Princeton, the ambitious and self-centered Amory longs to be included with the popular crowd, and become one of those he views as entitled, but along the way, he indulges in a string of romances with beautiful, young women. While chasing his golden dream, Amory's youth is slipping away, along with the past. Will young Amory understand how fleeting life is before it is too late?

La vida de Scott Fitzgerald, el autor de El Gran Gatsby daria para una novela casi igual a las que escribio. Bohemio, exitoso, con una vida conyugal accidentada, Scott Fitzgerald supo plasmar en sus pocas obras a esos personajes cinicos y brutales que surgieron despues de la primera guerra mundial.

A Baltimore, nel 1860, una coppia della buona borghesia dà alla luce il primo figlio, ma l'atteso lieto evento porta con sè una sorprendente...

Un tema caro a Fitzgerald, la corruzione e l’immoralità che si accompagnano alla ricchezza, viene svolto in questo racconto in modo fantastico e simbolico, in uno scenario da sogno.

"Il diamante grande come il Ritz", tratto dalla raccolta ''Racconti dell'età del jazz'', è un racconto dall'atmosfera surreale che riassume benissimo lo stile e la bravura di Fitzgerald. Potrebbe essere definito una fiaba degli anni Venti, periodo in cui il lusso era l'illusione e la mira di tanti. John T. Unger, un giovane studente della ricca borghesia del sud, si ritrova a trascorrere le vacanze estive nella residenza di famiglia di Percy Washington, nuovo e affascinante compagno di liceo.

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).

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Jelly-Bean": Two of Fitzgerald's finest stories of the Jazz Age. The first tells of a young woman who doesn't fit in her cousin's social life, and the second of love and social class.

Five brilliant stories from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century! This audiobook includes the following stories: Head and Shoulders, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz - narrated by Bronson Pinchot and Stephen R. Thorne!

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.