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Anthony Patch is a young socialite living in the exciting world of New York City in the early years of the Jazz Age. He has graduated from Harvard but has remarkably few accomplishments and spends most of his time pretending to work on a novel rather than truly creating anything. When he is introduced to another socialite, Gloria Gilbert, he is inspired to jump into the next phase of his life by marrying her despite being hesitant to share his comfortable life with another. Their married life is full of conflict and tension, as Gloria expects to have a fully funded, glamorous life.

Cesar D’Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father’s place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12, he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner.

When Harry meets Sally, he saves her from a horde of walking dead and promises to give her all she could ever want or need as long as she, in turn, promises to accept his terms. What could a man who has everything possibly need from her? It isn't your standard love story. This is a story about necessity and desire.

The Great Gatsby, the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, follows a cast of characters on Long Island in the summer of 1922. It is considered a classic of the Jazz Age or Roaring Twenties. The story is told by Nick Carraway, a Yale University graduate from the Midwest who has moved to New York to pursue a stock-market career. Recounting the events of a summer he spent on Long Island, his narrative emerges as a series of flashbacks.

Sadie Larcen may have defeated the traitorous Queen Estancia, but she’s quite happy to be home with her family. Unfortunately, their fiendish neighbor, Mr. Marshall, is still up to no good. He’s called a press conference with plans to introduce the world to a living, breathing Bigfoot. As a Sasquatch expert, Sadie’s mother, Amy, is coerced into lending her expertise to the spectacle. When Sadie and her brother Brady spy nefarious, uninvited guests at the gathering, they know there’s trouble brewing in the Tethered World.

Are you in turmoil over a decision you’re making? This audiobook can help you. Over 30 years ago, the author was eaten alive by a life decision and made a small but miraculous discovery: a powerful, step-by-step process for making decisions that he now calls the reflection method. Deceptively simple, it's helped him sort and evaluate options and make the best decisions of his life - ones that he’s never regretted.

Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, tells of a handsome young man, Amory Blaine, whose romantic relationships with women are touched with a reflection of his own narcissism. First published in 1920, it covers Amory's life at Princeton and later as a soldier during World War I. The central character is loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, and the female characters are mostly based on actual women in his life as well. The book was a solid success and helped Fitzgerald persuade Jazz Age icon Zelda Sayres, fictionalized in the novel, to marry him.

If you're seeking greater understanding of how the original and contemporary accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision fit together, this audiobook will help you. Joseph’s remarkable 1820 vision of God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ is one of the best attested divine visions in recorded history.

En sus novelas, Fitzgerald expresa el desencanto de los jóvenes de su generación. Se le considera uno de los más importantes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX. Fue portavoz de la "Generación Perdida", aquellos estadounidenses nacidos en la última década del siglo XIX que les tocó madurar durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Fitzgerald escribió con una extraordinaria honestidad al plasmar sus emociones.

En sus novelas, Fitzgerald expresa el desencanto de los jóvenes de su generación. Se le considera uno de los más importantes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald nació en Saint Paul, Minnesota, el 24 de septiembre de 1896. Su obra refleja los problemas de la juventud de su país en los años subsiguientes a la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Der große Gatsby (Originaltitel: The Great Gatsby) ist ein 1925 erstmals veröffentlichter Roman des US-amerikanischen Autors F. Scott Fitzgerald. Er schildert die Erlebnisse einer Reihe unterschiedlicher Personen, die den Sommer 1922 in der fiktiven Stadt West Egg auf der Insel Long Island nordöstlich von New York City verbringen. Hauptperson ist der junge und mysteriöse Millionär Jay Gatsby, der seit Jahren die schöne Daisy Buchanan liebt, die während seines Militärdiensts einen anderen Mann geheiratet hat.

Cuando despertó se sentía mejor de lo que se había sentido en muchas semanas: simplemente no se sentía enfermo. Se apoyó un momento en el marco de la puerta que separaba su dormitorio y el baño hasta que estuvo seguro de que no se había mareado. Ni siquiera un poco, ni siquiera cuando se puso a buscar una zapatilla debajo de la cama.

Esta novela corta, enfrenta dos mundos irreconciliables: el lujo, el optimismo y el dinero contrapuestos a la desdicha, la pobreza y la apatía vital. Gordon Sterrett, como Jim Powell en "El gominola", buscará su absolución en un ensueño de juventud y encanto que le rechaza: el infierno no cabe en el paraíso. Por su lado pasan fugazmente personajes como Edith Bradin, hermosa encarnación de cuanto Gordon ha perdido; los soldados Key y Rose, reverso patético del fulgor del grand monde, y los grotescos señor Entrada y señor Salida, figuras bufas cuyas cómicas intervenciones contribuirán a resaltar la magnitud del dramático desenlace.

Obra que retrata la decadencia y la rebeldía de un escritor frente a los poderosos estudios de cine de los años treinta. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, 24 de septiembre de 1896) fue un escritor estadounidense, conocido por ser uno de los escritores más aclamados del país durante el siglo XX, cuya obra es paradigmática a la era del jazz.

Sadie Larcen and her family are slowly recovering from their life-altering trek to the Tethered World. That is until their aunt arrives clutching a mysterious letter and sporting a black eye. The letter that Aunt Jules shares with the family writhes with sinister implications. A new and menacing enemy has slunk from the shadows and is conspiring to seize the most powerful piece of weaponry in the land: The Flaming Sword of Cherubythe. The sword must - at all costs - be kept from the enemies who lust for its power.

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Four years after the Great War, America is enjoying an economic boom. Enigmatic veteran Jay Gatsby, who's risen from being nobody from nowhere to self-made millionaire, is along for the ride. Upwardly mobile, he reaches for status among the "old money" on Long Island - and for all that it promises across the bay, namely Daisy, the lost love of his youth, who has been married for five years to Gatsby's contemptible rival, Tom Buchanan. With all his wealth and charmed aspirations to restore the past, Gatsby is certain he can win her back.

L'idea di un racconto con protagonista un uomo dalla vita al contrario non era un'idea originale di Fitzgerald. Come ammise lo stesso scrittore statunitense nella nota introduttiva a "Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button": "Questo racconto fu ispirato da un'osservazione di Mark Twain: cioè, che era un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita venisse all'inizio e la peggiore alla fine."

A charming, heart-felt collection of Christmas stories and poems that will delight the entire family. Includes F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Luckless Santa Claus", "A Christmas Dinner" by Charles Dickens, O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi", the hilarious "Reginald on Christmas Presents" by Saki (H.H. Munro), and a tender scene exerpted from Little Women.