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1000 tulosta hakusanalla F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers (Large Print Edition)
F Scott Fitzgerald
Serenity Publishers, LLC
2011
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history of American literature, is best known today for his novels, but during his lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolific achievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorable creations. "I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale of the people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
El Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F Scott Fitzgerald
www.bnpublishing.com
2009
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Inspired by a romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, the Great Gatsby is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, outlining the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his compulsive preoccupation to be again with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews after its original publication and was adapted to film more than once. Widely considered a literary masterwork, it's in many best books lists, such as the Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, The Guardian's 100 best novels, etc.
Inspired by a romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, the Great Gatsby is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, outlining the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his compulsive preoccupation to be again with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews after its original publication and was adapted to film more than once. Widely considered a literary masterwork, it's in many best books lists, such as the Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, The Guardian's 100 best novels, etc.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Large Print by Francis Scott Fitzgerald This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime.
