F. Scott Fitzgerald

Revealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form, this "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories" spans multiple genres and styles to dazzling effect. Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button...

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), amerykański powieściopisarz, autor opowiadań i scenariuszy filmowych, zyskał sławę już dzięki swej debiutanckiej powieści Po tej stronie raju (1920). Później opublikował Pięknych i przeklętych (1922), Wielkiego Gatsby'ego (1925) oraz Czuła jest noc (1934), a także kilka tomów opowiadań. Fitzgerald wraz z żoną,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), amerykański powieściopisarz, autor opowiadań i scenariuszy filmowych, zyskał sławę już dzięki swej debiutanckiej powieści Po tej stronie raju (1920). Później opublikował Pięknych i przeklętych (1922), Wielkiego Gatsby'ego (1925) oraz Czuła jest noc (1934), a także kilka tomów opowiadań. Fitzgerald wraz z żoną,...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited...

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories...

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations and distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria, and the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a...