This title features 6 of the "Roaring Twenties" chronicler's most scintillating short stories, chosen from "Flappers and Philosophers" (1920) and "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Ice Palace", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "May Day", [...]

Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited[...]

Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he [...]

"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find o[...]

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, it made him instantly famous and stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.[...]

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald's major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying [...]

A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagn[...]

"Flappers and Philosophers" was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald's sensational debut, "This Side of Paradise," and anticipated themes in "The Great Gatsby." This iconic collection marks the writer's entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including "[...]

Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer's most famous and celebrated stories. In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as th[...]

This study of F. Scott Fitzgerald offers new readings of novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon. It is an essential introduction to Fitzgerald's fiction, both for first-time readers and for those aware of his reputation as one of twentieth-century America's most rep[...]

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Evoking the mood of the American Twenties, and wealthy lives filled with excess and illusion, this is the story of Jay Gatsby's yearning for the beautiful Daisy.[...]