Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Fourteen tales include "The Enormous Radio" by Cheever, Faulkner's "Dry September," Katherine Anne Porter's "He," "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, and tales by Hawthorne, Twain, Poe, Fitzgerald, Wharton, others.

A l'occasion des 40 ans de la collection Folio, ce coffret réunit trois oeuvres anglo-saxonnes, emblématiques de la série.

En nous racontant ses années 20, Ernest Hemingway rédige un chant d'amour à la ville Lumière.

La présente édition restitue le texte manuscrit original et propose nombre de vignettes restées inédites.

« Tel était le Paris de notre jeunesse, au temps où nous étions très pauvres et très heureux. »
Ernest Hermingway

Eté 1922. En pleine Prohibition, Gatsby, un jeune multimilliardaire aux origines et aux ressources douteuses, organise des soirées somptueuses dans sa villa de Long Island. Tandis que le gratin new-yorkais s'enivre de ses cocktails de contrebande et danse sur ses pelouses, lui n'a d'yeux que pour une petite lumière verte qui scintille de l'autre côté de la baie. Pourquoi s'est-il installé là ? A quoi bon cette fortune prodigieuse ? Aux pieds de qui est-il venu la déposer ? L'a-t-elle attendu, elle aussi ? Le narrateur, impliqué malgré lui dans cette quête romantique, va peu à peu le découvrir, en même temps que la cruauté ordinaire de ceux qui sont nés riches, l'arrière-goût amer des lendemains de fête et la fragilité des amours adolescentes.

Été 1922. Dans sa luxueuse propriété de Long Island, Jay Gatsby donne tous les soirs de somptueuses réceptions qui rassemblent la haute société new-yorkaise. Les rumeurs les plus folles circulent sur son compte : qui est exactement cet homme ? Son passé est-il aussi trouble que certains le prétendent ? C'est ce que va chercher à savoir Nick Carraway, son voisin, curieux de percer à jour cet intrigant personnage. Car Gatsby ne s'est pas installé dans le voisinage par hasard. Un amour de jeunesse l'aurait conduit là... et le hanterait encore.

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'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic 1920s. In 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', two of his greatest stories, he conjures up the spirit of theage; in other stories he adopts a variety of forms - parody, a one-act play, fantasy - with unrivalled versatility. 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', a tale of a man living his life backwards, features among the 'Fantasies' in Fitzgerald's self-deprecatory Table of Contents, alongside the groupings 'MyLast Flappers' and 'Unclassified Masterpieces'. In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald establishes the style that was to make him one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth-century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a selection of Fitzgerald's notebooks, which - as well as being a repository of anecdotes and witty lines - provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the novelist's creative process, with passages that would be reworked into his fiction.