Fitzgerald Treasury - The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned
ISBN: 978-16-403-2287-5
Format: 15.6x23.4cm
Liczba stron: 474
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 1925 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>Complete</u></em></strong><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> editions </em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">of </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>The Great Gatsby</u></em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>This Side of Paradise</u></em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, and </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>The Beautiful and Damned</u></em> </strong><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">by F. Scott Fitzgerald</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. His oozing verse and indulgent styling are fully captured here.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">His three early novels, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920's America, are haunting classics that stays with the reader.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">From </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>The Great Gatsby</u> </em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">(1925):</span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em> </em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life..."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">From </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>This Side of Paradise</u></em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> (1920): "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">From </span><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em><u>The Beautiful and Damned</u> </em></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">(1922): "As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">No student of thought should be without these historic books. This edition is provided in a slim volume with </span><u style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">full text</u><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> at an affordable price. </span></p>