Nach dem Schwarzen Freitag von 1929 ist nichts mehr wie zuvor. Das muss in >Wiedersehen mit Babylon< auch der Börsenspekulant Charlie Wales erfahren. Schnell hat er sein Vermögen gemacht, noch schneller hat er es wieder verloren. Charlie...

The great American classic is now a major motion picture directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions...

`I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there¿s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.¿The crackle of...

For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To F. Scott Fitzgerald's bemused narrator, Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man...

Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous...

The Great Gatsby von Fitzgerald, F. Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first collection of short fiction includes the familiar themes of aspiration and social satire which already permeated his writing in these stories of youth and disappointment. von Fitzgerald, F. Scott

For generations of enthralled readers, the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. To F. Scott Fitzgerald's bemused narrator, Nick Carraway, Gatsby appears to have...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of personal essays, notes and letters that chronicle the late author's state of mind in his...