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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era.After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion.Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald’s succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.

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The Great Gatsby

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The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner&apos;s in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald&apos;s second novel. It 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. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald&apos;s characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work generally is considered to be based on Fitzgerald&apos;s relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon&apos;s fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, the couple&apos;s post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. Gloria and Anthony&apos;s story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish.

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The Beautiful and Damned, Book 2 (Unabridged)

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke&apos;s poem Tiare Tahiti. The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre&apos;s hand in marriage; its publication was her condition of acceptance.

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This Side of Paradise (Unabridged)

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: 
• This Side of Paradise
• The Beautiful and Damned
• Tales of the Jazz Age
• Flappers and Philosophers

The Collected Works of Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Die Fähigkeit, innere Regungen mit wenigen Worten in einer schon beinahe ungemütlichen Genauigkeit zu beschreiben, dieses Talent spielt F. Scott Fitzgerald in Zärtlich ist die Nacht voll aus. Mit leichter Hand zeichnet er eine ganze Welt nach, verbildlicht die Ängste, Talente und Wünsche zahlreicher Figuren. Die Probleme in der Beziehung zwischen dem amerikanischen Psychiater Dick Diver und seiner Gattin Nicole, die wegen einer Schizophrenie als junge Frau in eine Klinik eingewiesen wurde, werden äußerst subtil, aber umso wirkungsvoller geschildert. Fitzgerald schafft es, eine eigentümliche Spannung aufzubauen: Obwohl die Schickeria in Zärtlich ist die Nacht oft nur von einem lockeren Gesellschaftsanlass zum nächsten eilt, ist man als Leser beunruhigt und spürt, dass etwas in der Luft liegt – bis Dick Divers Leben tatsächlich aus den Fugen gerät. Ein großes und zeitloses Werk.