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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. In 1920 Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a visa mer daughter, Frances. Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the finest American writers of the 20th Century. His most notable work was the novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The novel focused on the themes of the Roaring Twenties and of the loss of innocence and ethics among the nouveau riche. He also made many contributions to American literature in the form of short stories, plays, poetry, music, and letters. Ernest Hemingway, who was greatly influenced by Fitzgerald's short stories, wrote that Fitzgerald's talent was "as fine as the dust on a butterfly's wing." Yet during his lifetime Fitzgerald never had a bestselling novel and, toward the end of his life, he worked sporadically as a screenwriter at motion picture studios in Los Angeles. There he contributed to scripts for such popular films as Winter Carnival and Gone with the Wind. Fitzgerald's work is inseparable from the Roaring 20s. Berenice Bobs Her Hair and A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, are two short stories included in his collections, Tales of the Jazz Age and Flappers and Philosophers. His first novel The Beautiful and Damned was flawed but set up Fitzgerald's major themes of the fleeting nature of youthfulness and innocence, unattainable love, and middle-class aspiration for wealth and respectability, derived from his own courtship of Zelda. This Side of Paradise (1920) was Fitzgerald's first unqualified success. Tender Is the Night, a mature look at the excesses of the exuberant 20s, was published in 1934. Much of Fitzgerald's work has been adapted for film, including Tender is the Night , The Great Gatsby, and Babylon Revisited which was adapted as The Last Time I Saw Paris by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1954. The Last Tycoon, adapted by Paramount in 1976, was a work in progress when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald is buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier

Verk av F. Scott Fitzgerald

Den store Gatsby (1925) 71,678 exemplar
Natten är ljuv (1934) 12,840 exemplar
This Side of Paradise (1920) 9,367 exemplar
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) 6,166 exemplar
Den siste magnaten (1941) 2,563 exemplar
Sammanbrottet (1945) 910 exemplar
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) 820 exemplar
The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021) — Author of source material — 797 exemplar
Flappers and Philosophers (1920) 741 exemplar
The Pat Hobby Stories (1962) 444 exemplar
The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973) 285 exemplar
Six Tales of the Jazz Age (1960) 269 exemplar
On Booze (2011) 191 exemplar
The Collected Short Stories (1986) 175 exemplar
Jazz Age Stories {12 stories} (1998) 165 exemplar
Afternoon of an Author (1957) 165 exemplar
Bits of Paradise (1973) 158 exemplar
The Great Gatsby / Tender Is The Night / The Last Tycoon (1953) — Författare — 107 exemplar
Collected Stories: Lost Decade and Other Stories v. 5 (1963) — Författare — 106 exemplar
Magnetism (1996) 100 exemplar
Taps at Reveille (1935) 90 exemplar
Alla sorgsna unga män (1926) 87 exemplar
May Day (1920) 85 exemplar
The Last Time I Saw Paris [1954 film] (1954) — Original book — 83 exemplar
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1990) 81 exemplar
The Rich Boy (2001) 71 exemplar
Gatsby Girls (2013) 69 exemplar
A Short Autobiography (2011) 68 exemplar
The Fitzgerald Reader (1963) 66 exemplar
F Scott Fitzgerald on Writing (1985) 59 exemplar
Stories for Summer (1987) 58 exemplar
Winter Dreams (1900) 52 exemplar
Love in the Night (1994) 52 exemplar
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1963) 33 exemplar
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
The Great Gatsby [adapted] (2005) 22 exemplar
The Popular Girl (2005) 21 exemplar
The Offshore Pirate (2004) 20 exemplar
Romanzi (1983) 19 exemplar
La Sorcière rousse (2002) 18 exemplar
Love boat (1983) 17 exemplar
The Ice Palace (2004) — Författare — 17 exemplar
Forgotten Fitzgerald (2014) 14 exemplar
Cuentos 1 - Scott Fitzgerald (1998) 13 exemplar
Benjamin Button'in Tuhaf Hikayesi (2020) — Författare — 13 exemplar
Poems 1911-1940 (1981) 10 exemplar
Een dag in mei (2013) 10 exemplar
The Jelly-Bean {short story} (2004) 8 exemplar
Selected Short Stories (1973) 8 exemplar
Wiedersehen mit Babylon. (1981) 8 exemplar
Head And Shoulders (2004) 8 exemplar
Three Comrades [1938 film] (1938) — Screenwriter — 7 exemplar
The Cut-Glass Bowl (2009) 7 exemplar
Five by Fitzgerald (2011) 7 exemplar
Meistererzählungen. (2002) 6 exemplar
Parties (2020) 5 exemplar
The Camel's Back (2010) 5 exemplar
Thank You for the Light (2012) 5 exemplar
Gods of Darkness 5 exemplar
Three Great American Novels (1953) 5 exemplar
Short Stories Collection (2016) 5 exemplar
Los mejores cuentos (2009) 5 exemplar
Contes de l'âge du jazz (2009) 5 exemplar
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (2009) 5 exemplar
A New Leaf (2015) 5 exemplar
Crazy Sunday 5 exemplar
Eclats du paradis (1977) 4 exemplar
Porcelain and Pink (2014) 4 exemplar
Der letzte Kuss (detebe) (2009) 4 exemplar
Benediction (2008) 4 exemplar
The Late Gatsby (2012) 4 exemplar
Short Stories (2016) 4 exemplar
The Sensible Thing (2020) 4 exemplar
"O Russet Witch!" (1922) 4 exemplar
Die Romane. 5 Bde (2006) 4 exemplar
The Bedside Esquire (1940) 4 exemplar
Winterträume (2009) 4 exemplar
I racconti (2013) 4 exemplar
Historier fra jazztiden (2013) 4 exemplar
De rijke jongen (2013) 4 exemplar
The I.O.U. 3 exemplar
Fuori dai giochi (2014) 3 exemplar
Il blues del Rottame Vagante (2011) 3 exemplar
Novels 3 exemplar
Suave e a noite (1996) 3 exemplar
Belos e Malditos 3 exemplar
Cuentos reunidos (2010) 3 exemplar
Essential Fitzgerald CD (2006) 3 exemplar
This Side of Paradise / The Last Tycoon — Författare — 3 exemplar
A change of class (2016) 3 exemplar
The Four Fists (2020) 3 exemplar
Gesammelte Erzählungen (2009) 3 exemplar
Poemas de la era del jazz (2013) 3 exemplar
The Lees of Happiness (2008) — Författare — 3 exemplar
Den charmiska flappern (1998) 3 exemplar
El pagaré (2021) 2 exemplar
20. Los mejores cuentos (2012) 2 exemplar
Cuentos 2 exemplar
Den sista skönheten (1997) 2 exemplar
Natten Är Ljuv 2 exemplar
Caz Cagi Öyküleri (2018) 2 exemplar
Caz Çağı Öyküleri (2021) 2 exemplar
Last Kiss [short story] (2017) 2 exemplar
An Alcoholic Case (1937) 2 exemplar
Cei frumoşi şi blestemaţi (2012) 2 exemplar
Noveller 2 exemplar
Racconti dispersi vol. III (2000) 2 exemplar
Short stories = Nouvelles (1991) 2 exemplar
Velikii Getsbi (2019) 2 exemplar
Velský Garsby 1 exemplar
Festa da ballo 1 exemplar
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The Last Tycoon 1 exemplar
GETSBI I MADH 1 exemplar
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Book B0BTK6G5SV 1 exemplar
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La Fêlure 1 exemplar
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The Scandal Detectives (2016) 1 exemplar
La longue fuite 1 exemplar
Niño Bien 1 exemplar
Cuentos rebeldes (2022) 1 exemplar
Mr. Icky (2016) 1 exemplar
Tenera è la notte 1 exemplar
Sevecendir Gece (2014) 1 exemplar
Gli anni della crisi (2014) 1 exemplar
Son Dus 1 exemplar
Švelni naktis: [romanas] (2015) 1 exemplar
Z tej strony raju 1 exemplar
gli ultimi fuochi 1 exemplar
Die besten Stories (1954) 1 exemplar
Racconti dispersi vol. IV (2001) 1 exemplar
More Than Just a House (2015) 1 exemplar
Letter of F Scott Fitzgerald (1963) 1 exemplar
Fyra amerikanska klassiker från Novellix (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
A Luckless Santa Claus (2008) 1 exemplar
Niño bien y otros cuentos (1978) 1 exemplar
The Hungry Ocean 1 exemplar
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Cennetin Bu Yakasi (2017) 1 exemplar
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To Die For (2015) 1 exemplar
A Short Trip Home 1 exemplar
The Dial, Vol. 1. — owner — 1 exemplar
Jacob's Ladder (2015) 1 exemplar
Früher Erfolg (2012) 1 exemplar
Selections (Reynard Library) (1962) 1 exemplar
Great Gatsby Minibook (2014) 1 exemplar
Porcelain and Pink 1 exemplar
Tre romaner (2023) 1 exemplar
Terna E A Noite 1 exemplar
Suve é a Noite 1 exemplar
Getsbi i madh 1 exemplar
Den sidste mogul (2008) 1 exemplar
Az ólomkristály 1 exemplar
Maipüha : kolm juttu (2011) 1 exemplar
Đại Gia Gatsby 1 exemplar
Pat Hobby em Hollywood (1993) 1 exemplar
Cuentos selectos (2015) 1 exemplar

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The night before Chancellorsville, and other Civil War stories (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
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31 Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
A Cavalcade of Collier's (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Früher war mehr Strand: Hinterhältige Reisegeschichten (2007) — Författare — 10 exemplar
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
A Treasury of Doctor Stories (1946) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Great Tales of City Dwellers (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
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Modern Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
The Great Gatsby [1949 film] (2015) — Författare — 3 exemplar
Short Stories: The Timeless Collection (Unabridged) (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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Taggad

Allmänna fakta

Vedertaget namn
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key
Andra namn
D'Invilliers, Thomas Parke
Födelsedag
1896-09-24
Avled
1940-12-21
Begravningsplats
Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1940)
St. Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1975, reburied at the family plot)
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Dödsort
Hollywood, California, USA
Dödsorsak
heart attack
Bostadsorter
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Towson, Maryland, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (visa alla 10)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Paris, France
Encino, California, USA
Utbildning
Holy Angels Convent
Nardin Academy
St. Paul Academy
Newman School
Princeton University
Yrken
novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter
playwright
poet
lyricist (visa alla 7)
second lieutenant
Relationer
Fitzgerald, Zelda (wife)
Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald (daughter)
Lanahan, Eleanor (granddaughter)
Perkins, Maxwell E. (friend)
Wilson, Edmund (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend) (visa alla 14)
Cowley, Malcolm (friend)
Murphy, Gerald (friend)
Lardner, Ring (friend)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Bishop, John Peale (friend)
Graham, Sheilah (girlfriend)
Key, Francis Scott (cousin)
Ring, Frances Kroll (personal secretary)
Organisationer
United States Army
Priser och utmärkelser
New Jersey Hall of Fame
Fitzgerald Theater
Agent
Harold Ober (1929--1940)
Kort biografi
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, although he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920).

In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).

Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in 1940, at the age of 44. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death.

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Recensioner

Fann boken svårläst och lite rörig under första halvan. Blev bättre och mer strukturerat mot slutet som är riktigt fint. Klart läsvärd bok.
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Mikael.Linder | 1,159 andra recensioner | Jun 4, 2023 |
"Vem är det store Gatsby?

Det är 1920-tal i USA.
Nick flyttar till ett fint område
utanför New York.
Där börjar han umgås med
landets allra rikaste människor.
De arbetar inte. I stället går de på partyn,
dansar och dricker drinkar.

Granne med Nick bor en märklig man
som kallas för den store Gatsby.
I Gatsbys väldiga hus hålls fantastiska fester.
Men ingen känner Gatsby.
Vem är han?
Snart får Nick reda på
Gatsbys tragiska hemlighet."… (mer)
 
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stenbackeskolan | 1,159 andra recensioner | Jan 22, 2021 |
Detta är den senaste boken jag läst, och den gick direkt in i mitt hjärta. Den är otroligt välskriven och väldigt fin.

Jag hade sett filmen innan och var väldigt beskriven på slutet, men det gjorde sig otroligt bra i boken när jag också visste vad som skulle hända. Allt beskrevs väldigt drömmigt och vackert, trots att boken är så tragisk och deppig egentligen. Det kan sammanfattas som deppigt på ett fint sätt!
 
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cickan | 1,159 andra recensioner | Sep 9, 2014 |
För första gången på länge har jag inte läst en bok från pärm till pärm: förvisso hoppade jag endast större delen av introduktionen, men ändå: jag brukar stå ut med mycket. Själva berättelsen var bra, men detta hjälper inte mot introduktioner som upptar en fjärdedel av totala sidantalet och ständigt fördjupar sig i symbolism och annat för litteraturvetare oemotståndligt.

För den som inte har läst boken kan den sammanfattas med att den unge Nick Carraway flyttar till Long Island och blir granne med den mystiske Jay Gatsby, som ger enorma fester dit folk flockas, även om han själv aldrig riktigt verkar delta. Så småningom får man dock veta att han flyttat dit för att jaga en gammal kärlek. I början går allt efter förväntan, men i längden kan inte nya pengar tävla med gamla, och till slut är tragedin ett faktum: kvar på scen är Nick, som får ta hand om Gatsbys kvarlåtenskaper, och diverse människor som aldrig tycks ha brytt sig nämnvärt om den person vars fester de gick på.

Det är en på alla sätt mycket helgjuten bok: allt ifrån tidsbilden – det är tidigt tjugotal, spritförbud, minnena av kriget har börjat blekna –, över skildringen av de opraktiska, närmast parasitiska människor som tillbringar helgkvällarna hos Gatsby, till det fina språkbruket och den nästan överdrivet sammanhållna handlingen gör att att det är svårt att hitta någon riktig svaghet.

The Great Gatsby är en historia om brustna drömmar, om att inte ge upp, om att förlora sig själv i kampen mot ett enda mål. Det förändrar måhända inte livet för sina läsare, men den uppfyller nästan alla andra tänkbara krav på en bra bok, och betraktas välförtjänt som en klassiker.
… (mer)
 
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andejons | 1,159 andra recensioner | Nov 18, 2010 |

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Sylvia Plath Contributor
Fernanda Pivano Translator, Editor, Foreword
Cherlynne Li Cover designer
Tony Tanner Introduction
Robert Nippoldt Illustrator
Francis Cugat Cover artist
Jane Pauley Narrator
E. Piñas Translator
Kyle Tait Narrator
Edgard Cirlin Cover artist
Fred Meyer Illustrator
Gösta Olzon Translator
Hal Siegel Illustrator
Bruce Dean Illustrator
Christian Ekvall Translator
William Hope Narrator
Marja Niiniluoto Translator
Anthony Heald Narrator
Susan Janssen Translator
Franca Cavagnoli Translator
Enn Soosaar Translator
Ken Bush Editor
Sam Sloan Foreword
L. Cornils Translator
Guy Reynolds Introduction
Tom Burns Illustrator
Frank Muller Narrator
Jacques Tournier Translator
Lutz-W Wolff Translator
Haruki Murakami Translator
Bill Amberg Cover designer
Tim Robbins Narrator
Maria Tsaneva Illustrator
Victor Liona Translator
Mary Bess Engel Cover designer
Terenci Moix Translator
Walter E. Richartz Übersetzer
H. W. J. Schaap Translator
Hanna Neves Übersetzer
Glynn Boyd Harte Illustrator
Edward Shenton Illustrator
Dennis Potter Introduction
Bradley Clark Cover artist
Dawkins Dean Narrator
Dick Hill Narrator
Chris Hughes Narrator
C James Moore Narrator
Mark F. Smith Narrator
Chris Hendrie Narrator
Sharon G. Carson Introduction
Jeff Woodman Narrator
J. C. Leyendecker Cover artist
Pagan Harleman Introduction
Don Hagen Narrator
Gerard Cheshire Contributor
Ernst van Altena Translator
Orsola Boran Narratore
Calef Brown Illustrator
BJ Harrison Narrator
Mauro Formaggio Translator
Laura Bortoluzzi Translator
Sean Murphy Narrator
Eugene Ivanov Cover artist
Scott Brick Narrator
Suzanne Mayoux Translator, Traduction
Robert Gantt Steele Cover artist
Pamela Cannon Cover designer
Dominique Aury Translator
Kinuko Y. Craft Cover artist
C J Foeckler Author photo
Ruoxi Chen Editor
Greg Ruth Cover artist
Christine Foltzer Cover designer
Guido Golüke Translator
Arnold Gingrich Introduction
Scottie Fitzgerald Smith Editor, Introduction
John Kuehl Editor
Penny Martin Cover artist
Julie Verhoeven Cover artist
Alan Munro Narrator
John O'Hara Introduction
Darren Gavigan Production
Stephen Fry Narrator
Catherine Cronin Rights manager
James Dickey Foreword
Charlotte Maguire Picture editor
Rupert Degas Narrator
Gavin Brammall Art director
Kerry Shale Narrator
Pas Paschali Production editor
Paul Laity Series editor
Martin Jarvis Narrator

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Medlemmar
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Popularitet
#60
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ISBN
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