From the author of The Great Gatsby, this collection sees F. Scott Fitzgerald deftly chronicle heartbreak, astonishment and romance across three stories, where fortunes can change in an instant and couples break apart, only to be reunited again. An accomplished novelist and short story writer, renowned for his portraits of American society during the Jazz Age, these tales exemplify F. Scott Fitzgerald’s talent.The Bridal Party is set in 1930s Pari...

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”Jay Gatsby is mysterious, wealthy, and throws the most lavish parties at his mansion on Long Island. Among all the bright young things in Gatsby’s circle, the brightest is Daisy Buchanan – the girl he fell in love with before the war. Having lost her to marriage with the brutish Tom, Gatsby’s relentless pursuit of his perfect woman spirals out of control, sett...

There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air. I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew. And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn a...

Enter the glittering yet troubled world of the Jazz Age through the eyes of one of America's most celebrated writers. The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald brings together the major writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose fiction captured the glamour, excess, aspirations, and disillusionment of twentieth-century American life. Best known for The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald created unforgettable characters whose lives are shaped by love, wealth, ambition, social status, desire, and the purs...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

This ebook comprises 5 novels, 1 play, 167 stories, and a selection of miscellaneous writings.Navigation is made easy by an interactive Table Of Contents + Alphabetical Index

This Side of Paradise chronicles the coming of age of Amory Blaine, born to a wealthy midwestern family. It begins with Amory as a spoiled youth, doted on by his eccentric mother Beatrice. It follows him as he attends preparatory school and Princeton, and then briefly attempts but quickly abandons at a career in advertising. His service in World War I is mentioned but mostly glossed over. Covered in much more detail are his various romances: youthful dalliances, a correspondence-b...

Anthony Patch, the grandson of a wealthy businessman, spends his youth in idle relaxation expecting to inherit his grandfather's fortune. But when he meets Gloria, a vibrant young flapper, the two feel an irresistible attraction and quickly get married despite their clashing personalities.The two embark on a lifestyle of Jazz Age living: hard partying, profligate spending, and generally living the high life. But Anthony's prohibitionist grandfather soon finds out and disowns Anthon...

Although perhaps best known for his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald was also a prolific writer of short fiction, having published a large number of short works in periodicals and collections throughout his literary career.Fitzgerald mostly wrote about post-WWI America, the "Jazz Age," and his stories tend to focus on the habits and excesses of the upper class.This collection includes many of his stories published in periodicals, as well as several of his collections: Flappe...

The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers. Long taught as required reading in American schools, critics have consistently held it up alongside Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird as perhaps the quintessential Great American Novel.Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a sum...

Nick becomes friends with his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who is known for throwing extravagant parties. Gatsby is in love with Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan, a former college acquaintance of Nick's.As the summer unfolds, Nick becomes increasingly drawn into the world of Gatsby and the Buchanans, and begins to uncover the secrets and lies that underlie their relationships. The novel explores themes of love, wealth, class, and the Ameri...