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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for "The curious case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1997.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed as one of America's most important modern literary voices, Fitzgerald spins powerful stories, vivid with wit and emotion, of the turbulent 20s and 30s. From glittery cities to rural hamlets, his well-drawn characters step straight from the pages--claiming their successes, failures, and loves.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
At the outset of what he called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. Celebrating the riotous energy and naïve optimism of a generation that believed itself liberated from the past, Fitzgeralds early works, which are collected in this Library of America volume,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2003].
Language
English
Description
Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town...
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the Saturday Evening Post about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930...
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