The Beautiful and Damned + The Great Gatsby

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Sprache - Englisch

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The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream._x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.


Über den Autor

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, stands as a literary figure par excellence of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. Best known for his masterpiece, 'The Great Gatsby' (1925), Fitzgerald captured the spirit of the 1920s with consummate flair, probing beneath the era's glittering surface to reveal the emptiness and disillusionment that lay beneath. Following his Princeton University education, his literary talents burgeoned, culminating in a career that produced several classic American novels. Prior to 'The Great Gatsby', he penned 'The Beautiful and Damned' (1922), evoking the psychological depth and decline of his protagonists with eloquent precision. Fitzgerald's narrative style is notable for its rich imagery, lyrical prose, and an unerring sense of the rhythms of American speech. Despite the roaring success of his novels during the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's later years were marred by financial difficulties and health problems, and he died on December 21, 1940, believing his work forgotten. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald's novels, which include themes of youth, despair, and the corrupting nature of wealth, have endured, influencing countless writers and securing his legacy as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Produkt Details

Verlag: DigiCat

Genre: Sprache - Englisch

Sprache: English

Umfang: 433 Seiten

Größe: 785,9 KB

ISBN: 8596547005827

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