The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
A short, dazzling novel about a summer of parties on Long Island and the man who throws them for one reason. Every sentence is built to be reread, and the ending is hard to shake.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896–1940
You will find that Fitzgerald captures the bright, brittle energy of a certain era, exploring the weight of desire and the illusion of success. For a focused experience, start with «Short Fiction» to see his varied styles in brief form, or move to «The Great Gatsby» for a concentrated look at aspiration.
Feels like melancholy, love and ambition.
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Fitzgerald considered several titles, including Trimalchio in West Egg, before settling on The Great Gatsby, and he reportedly still wavered over the title after the book had gone to press.
A neighbour who throws the kind of party that needs eight servants to undo.
There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Short Fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
Fitzgerald's short stories are where he tried everything — jazz-age comedy, a man born old, first love, a girl who bobs her hair — in twenty pages or less.
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
A young actress falls in with a glamorous American couple on the Riviera, and the marriage underneath all that charm begins to show its seams.
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