Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who...
Het boek 'De grote Gatsby' van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over Jay Gatsby. Zijn landgoed op Long Island zindert van de jonge mensen die drinken en dansen. Maar Gatsby, jong, knap en...
Jay Gatsby is de man die alles heeft. Iedereen die iets voorstelt wordt gezien op zijn feestjes. Zijn landgoed op Long Island zindert van de jongelui die drinken, dansen en over de...
De grote Gatsby is het hoogtepunt uit het oeuvre van F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), en een schitterend geschreven portret van Amerika in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw. Een tijdperk,...
‘De grote Gatsby’ van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over de steenrijke eenling Jay Gatsby. Onder de broeierige oppervlakte van zijn leven schuilt een geheim: een stil, onmogelijk verlangen naar...
‘De grote Gatsby’ van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over de steenrijke eenling Jay Gatsby. Onder de broeierige oppervlakte van zijn leven schuilt een geheim: een stil, onmogelijk verlangen naar...
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist...
"Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?"
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"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke--The Great Gatsby--that would follow, and marks a key moment in...
Naast beroemde romans als The Great Gatsby liet de Amerikaanse schrijver F. Scott Fitzgerald maar liefst 179 verhalen na. Schrijver Ernest van der Kwast dook in dit omvangrijke oeuvre en...
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again...
A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally...
Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, written when the author was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a leading literary figure in the brilliant and dangerous world of...
Naast beroemde romans als The Great Gatsby liet de Amerikaanse schrijver F. Scott Fitzgerald maar liefst 179 verhalen na. Schrijver Ernest van der Kwast dook in dit omvangrijke oeuvre en...
Divers, Dick and Nicole hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of the dark secrets and...
I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. All eighteen short fictions...
American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoy
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet...
If the 'Roaring Twenties' are remembered as the era of 'flaming youth', it was F Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. This book traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep...
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion...
The glittering world of Jay Gatsby and his legendary parties hides a secret and destructive obsession that causes his world to unravel. Penguin Readers is a graded reading series, designed...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature....