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The Last Tycoon: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2002
Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald'sThe Last Tycoonis a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.

The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterworkThe Great Gatsbyis considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novelsThis Side of Paradise,The Great Gatsby,The Beautiful and the Damned,Tender is the Nightand, incomplete at the time of his death,The Last Tycoon. After his deathThe New York Timessaid of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.

If you enjoyedThe Last Tycoon, you might enjoy Fitzgerald'sThe Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics.

'Wonderful ... a novel about Hollywood, written from the inside'
Helen Dunmore,Sunday Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141185637
ISBN-10: 0141185635
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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 critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

Recenzii

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.