Zelda Fitzgerald Libri

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald.The collection includes Zelda's only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband, written over the span of their marriage, that reveals the couple's loving and turbulent relationship.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. The Collected Writings affirms her place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.  

Scott: "The Popular Girl" "Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar"* "Love in the Night" Scott and Zelda: "Our Own Movie Queen" Zelda: "The Original Follies Girl" "Southern Girl" "The Girl the Prince Liked" "The Girl with Talent" "A Millionaire's Girl" "Poor Working Girl" Scott: "The Hotel Child" "A New Leaf" Zelda: "Miss Ella" "The Continental Angle" "A Couple of Nuts" Scott: "What a Handsome Pair!" "Last Kiss" "Dearly Beloved" * = "Dice, Brassknucles & Guitar" appeared only in the Pocketbook edition of Bits of Paradise.

Presents the story of the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.

Love, money, revenge and betrayal - this is the Jazz Age novel that became the great American classic. The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him? 'Shimmers with a magic that readers have long recognised...Fitzgerald was so far ahead of his time that we are only just catching up with him' Sarah Churchwell, Guardian 'Not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth' The Times

This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in love and in his career, Blaine finds his youthful enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, cynicism and a life of dissolution. A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity.

Začínající balerína Alabama a úspěšný malíř David na první pohled vypadají jako dokonalý mladý pár. Skutečnost je ale jiná. Přestože oba patří k americké smetánce jazzového věku, jejich manželství se kvůli hádkám a žárlivosti rozpadá. Alabama nakonec přistoupí k ráznému kroku a od Davida i své dcery se odstěhuje, aby se mohla věnovat své kariéře v prestižním tanečním souboru. Vážné zranění ale všechno vmžiku změní.

Unkonventionell, klug und witzig – der Sensationsfund aus der Feder der Stilikone. Kaum jemand verkörpert den Zeitgeist der Roaring Twenties so wie Zelda Fitzgerald. Sie war der Prototyp des »Flappers«: frech, abenteuerlustig, extravagant. Ihre Erzählungen entführen uns in das glamouröse, schillernde Bühnenuniversum der Tänzerinnen, Schauspielerinnen und Sängerinnen und erwecken das Gefühl dieser Ära zum Leben. Die Lichter des Broadway, Schrankkoffer voll Tüllkleider, Orchideen in onduliertem Haar: Diese hinreißend sinnlichen Erzählungen handeln von der hohen Kunst, sich selbst zu inszenieren – und von dem Preis, den man dafür zahlt.