In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.

《幻梦的残片》是最完整收录菲茨杰拉德早期著作的一本合集。书中收录了菲氏在1922年前所完成的九篇作品，其中包括了村上春树强力推荐的经典短篇《残火》《水果软糖》，深刻描述20世纪20年代纽约众生相的名作《幻梦的残片》以及《骆驼的背脊》《哦，红发女巫》等六篇风格各异的精彩短篇。
在本书中，菲茨杰拉德用他轻巧感性却又流利深刻的笔锋，描绘出一个又一个属于爵士乐年代的传奇故事。在那里，不论是谁，最终都要面临突然降临的幸与不幸所带来的种种考验。在幸福中隐藏着恐慌，在悲剧中酝酿着快乐。菲茨杰拉德将自己的矛盾、无奈，对爱情的渴望与不安，以及对现实世界的敏锐观察，化为一篇篇令人回首再三，感动不已的小说。
美梦总将醒来，而残存的片段是否仍然那么美丽呢……

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A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

A collection including the last complete unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the iconic American writer of The Great Gatsby who is more widely read today than ever.
I’d Die For You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel. Fitzgerald did not design the stories in I’d Die For You as a collection. Most were submitted individually to major magazines during the 1930s and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, but were never printed. Some were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald. They date from the earliest days of Fitzgerald’s career to the last. They come from various sources, from libraries to private collections, including those of Fitzgerald’s family.
Readers will experience Fitzgerald writing about controversial topics, depicting young men and women who actually spoke and thought more as young men and women did, without censorship. Rather than permit changes and sanitizing by his contemporary editors, Fitzgerald preferred to let his work remain unpublished, even at a time when he was in great need of money and review attention.
“I’d Die For You,” the collection’s title story, is drawn from Fitzgerald’s stays in the mountains of North Carolina when his health, and that of his wife Zelda, was falling apart. With the addition of a Hollywood star and film crew to the Smoky Mountain lakes and pines, Fitzgerald brings in the cinematic world in which he would soon be living. Most of the stories printed here come from this time period, during the middle and late1930s, though the collection spans Fitzgerald’s career from 1920 to the end of his life.
The book is subtitled And Other Lost Stories in recognition of an absence until now. Some of the eighteen stories were physically lost, coming to light only in the past few years. All were lost, in one sense or another: lost in the painful shuffle of the difficulties of Fitzgerald’s life in the middle 1930s; lost to readers because contemporary editors did not understand or accept what he was trying to write; lost because archives are like that, and good things can wait patiently in libraries for many centuries sometimes. I’d Die For You And Other Lost Stories echoes as well the nostalgia and elegy in Gertrude Stein’s famous phrase “a lost generation,” that generation for whom Fitzgerald was a leading figure.
Written in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language, exploring themes both familiar and fresh, these stories provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgerald’s career. I’d Die For You is a revealing, intimate look at Fitzgerald’s creative process that shows him to be a writer working at the fore of modern literature—in all its developing complexities.

★《大亨小傳》作家費茲傑羅，生前從未發表作品首度面世！
★中文版與全球同步發行！
★與海明威齊名，二十世紀美國最偉大作家！
《我願為你而死》蒐集了費茲傑羅生前未出版的散佚短篇小說，由安．瑪格麗特．丹尼爾主編。費茲傑羅當初並沒有想把這些短篇小說編篡為一冊。大部分的短篇小說都在一九三○年代向各大雜誌投稿，雖然被接受了，卻沒有在費茲傑羅生前刊登。有些是電影腳本，寄給了電影製片廠或製作人，但也沒有拍成電影。另外有些故事賣不出去，因為主題或風格悖離了編輯所期待的費茲傑羅。這些篇章從費茲傑羅寫作生涯最早期到最末期都有。來源不一而足，從圖書館到私人收藏，也包括費茲傑羅家族的收藏。
讀者會發覺，費茲傑羅寫的是有爭議性的主題，例如〈向露西與愛兒喜致敬〉這類的故事，他描繪的年輕男女比一般年輕男女說更多話、想得更深，而且毫無忌憚。這本小說集的同名故事〈我願為你而死〉，取材自費茲傑羅住在北卡羅萊納山區的經驗，當時他自己以及妻子賽爾妲的健康都越來越差。但費茲傑羅不願被當時的編輯牽著鼻子走，寧可不出版作品，即便在他急缺錢、急缺評論家注意之時。
本集的副題是「其他散佚的故事」，因為有些故事直到現在才考證出來。十八篇故事裡，有的稿子不見了，直到前幾年才出現。在某種層面上，可以說全部都散失了：在費茲傑羅艱困的晚期生活中丟失了；因為當時的編輯不了解或是不接受他的用意，而使讀者無緣一讀。《我願為你而死》同時也反映了葛楚德．史坦因的名言「迷失的一代」中的懷舊與輓歌氣氛，而費茲傑羅就是那個年代引領風騷的人物。
費茲傑羅以獨特的美麗、犀利、驚人語言探索既熟悉又新鮮的主題，這些故事讓我們得以更深刻地了解，費茲傑羅不妥協的筆耕生涯。《我願為你而死》揭露了費茲傑羅內心的創作過程，證明了他是走在現代文學前端的作家，無論現代文學的發展有多麼複雜多變。
國內外推薦及好評
★臺灣文壇與學界 特別推薦 : 詩人 林達陽、中研院中國文哲研究所研究員 李奭學、逗點文創總編輯 陳夏民、實踐大學應外系及創意產業博士班講座教授 陳超明、臺大翻譯碩士學位學程助理教授 陳榮彬、劇作家 陳曉唯、東海大學外文系助理教授 張雅惠、作家 張渝歌、一人出版社 劉霽（按姓氏筆劃排序）
★ 臺灣文壇與學界 特別推薦
海明威曾經責備費茲傑羅以文字賣淫，讓這些為了糊口而撰寫的故事，帶著原罪進到眾人耳朵，成了許多世代的讀者對費茲傑羅的刻板印象。如今，隨著史料出土，我們終於能夠一睹費氏散佚在各處的作品。雖然不能說是遲來的公道，但比對史料與文字、細細閱讀之後，費茲傑羅那不願輸給現實而燃燒（殆盡）的創作靈光，再次躍然紙上，讓人一邊讀著，一邊心疼——一個愛錯人的男子，一步錯、步步錯，除了虛名之外一無所有，只能用文字與世界拚搏，直到敲打著打字機的手指再也無力舉起為止…… ——逗點文創總編輯 陳夏民
跳脫個人的憂鬱與對時代的質疑，作者展現一股幽默、灑脫的魅力。透過簡短文字與跳躍式的對白與敘述，我們看到費茲傑羅如何解構美國夢。二十一世紀的台灣讀者，重新進入這位「失落一代」的世界，感受小說家如何游離於現實與理想間，是否也有相當的感觸呢？——實踐大學應外系、創意產業博士班講座教授 陳超明
費茲傑羅一生和美國的「爵士年代」一樣，從絢麗走向毀滅，但他留下的短篇小說作品，卻有永恆的藝術價值。——台大翻譯碩士學位學程助理教授 陳榮彬
這是費茲傑羅的「完美」之作，然而，這裡的完美並非是人們向來以為的「完美」，而是他對自己徹底的誠實。數學裡有個相當有趣的定理，一個圓是360度，但360度的同義詞其實也是0度，所謂完美即是誠實地「歸零」，在這本作品裡，讀者得以窺見他對藝術與文學的歸零與完美，他的初衷與想望。——劇作家 陳曉唯
這本合集裡的故事反映了費茲傑羅，身為文字藝術大師，在面對經濟壓力時選擇忠於己心的執著，以及成名後不斷自我挑戰、突破窠臼的勇氣。喜愛費茲傑羅的讀者，千萬別錯過！——東海大學外文系助理教授 張雅惠
幽默、諷喻、悲憫、觀照，每則短篇故事彷彿不同角度的鏡面，映襯出你可能沒見過的費茲傑羅。推薦給所有受困的靈魂。——作家 張渝歌
費茲傑羅筆下的一字一句，無不是在絕望與希望間反覆掙扎所錘鍊出的結晶，不論成果如何，字裡行間皆閃爍著對文學對人世不捨的信念。—— 一人出版社 劉霽
★再現真實費茲傑羅，全球媒體矚目
對於費茲傑羅的愛好者、研究學者以及有志成為作家的人而言，本書是個寶庫……更是得以窺見這位才華滿溢作家其掙扎歷程的大好機會。——全國公共廣播電台
一九三○年代雜誌界認為太過陰鬱的故事，如今卻是個寶庫。我們十分幸運能夠拜讀。——今日新聞
沒有任何英語作家比費茲傑羅更能寫出動聽的文句，以其作品的透徹性來說，這是令人驚嘆的成就……而他在忙亂短暫人生中所留下的創作，其偉大更無庸置疑。——多倫多星報
費茲傑羅的最佳寫作是以某種特定的時間、地點為底，再由他對該主題的情緒依附所推動……好奇的讀者可從中發現作者深掘想法的歷程。編者對每篇故事所做的介紹極富參考價值，全面性的注釋亦深具啟發性。——《明尼亞波利斯星論壇報》
《我願為你而死》的獨樹一幟，在於它為費茲傑羅較陰鬱的個人面向增添了一抹光彩……為他的作品增添了必要的受歡迎元素。可貴之處主要在於這些故事的異質性，偏離了世人所熟知的費茲傑羅作品風格。這本文集展現出他驚人的創作廣度、可怕的機智，以及最重要的——敢於冒險，這些特點尤其顯現在這些故事的情感核心以及它們所奠基的堅忍現實上。——Vice雜誌
能夠不斷重返過去真教人開心……這本文集收錄了許多成人題材的故事……即使處在最低落的時期，費茲傑羅文字的精準細緻仍遠遠超出他同時代的作家。——新標準雜誌
費茲傑羅遇編輯貴人發掘的絕佳運氣，至今仍由安妮•瑪格麗特•丹尼爾編纂的這本文集所延續，本書收錄了費茲傑羅生前從未發表出版，尤其是一九三○年代時期的作品。編者為故事本身和讀者所做的介紹，揭露出前所未見的文本脈絡，同樣極具價值。——水牛城新聞
對於想要感受到刺激感(儘管當時代的讀者並不買單)的費茲傑羅書迷來說……這部文集的魅力，部分來自於其中的故事保持了其原貌，沒受到本來可能會有的干涉。——達拉斯晨報
在費茲傑羅當時的生涯中，他拒絕讓這些作品的潛在雜誌買方進行修改，因此許多故事不曾發表刊行。如今，這些作品已成為費茲傑羅公認作品之外的有力新作。——華盛頓郵報

From Collins Classics and the author of 'The Great Gatsby' - now a major film - a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. 'Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.' Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties.

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13:
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
(back cover)

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s,
is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character,
is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the "Roaring Twenties" based on Fitzgerald's own experience.
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in 1925, it is often referred to as "The Great American Novel," and as the quintessential work which captures the mood of the "Jazz Age."
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic.
It seems to me, though, that no American novel comes closer than "Gatsby" to surpassing literary artistry, and none tells us more about ourselves. In an extraordinarily compressed space -- the novel is barely 50,000 words long -- Fitzgerald gives us a meditation on some of this country's most central ideas, themes, yearnings and preoccupations: the quest for a new life, the preoccupation with class, the hunger for riches and "the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
~The Washington Post
“The quintessential Jazz Age novel.”
Rated 48 of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
~The Guardian
Ranked 2nd of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
~Modern Library
Ranked 46 of the 100 Books of the Century
~ Le Monde

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born a feeble 70-year-old and becomes younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button's many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally (this causes complications), starts a family, and establishes a successful business. In his later years, he attends Harvard as a student and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles a newborn baby. And then he remembered nothing.Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness. The Hollywood adaptation of the story-starring Brad Pitt (as Benjamin Button), Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swenton, and Julia Ormond, and directed by David Fincher (who also directed Pitt in "Fight Club" and "Seven") - opens Thanksgiving Day 2008. This graphic-novel adaptation will allow fans of the film to experience the original source material in a fresh and fun format.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure-a phenomenon the high-living writer was only too familiar with. In THE GREAT GATSBY, Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from North Dakota who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan-a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom-and the narrator, Daisy's cousin Nick Carroway, who serves as the author's spokesman-play out the drama in a small Long Island town (the East Hampton of its day), Fitzgerald makes it increasingly clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work-and Gatsby's sad end underscores the point. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and, just as Fitzgerald's book grew out of the tradition that included Henry James and Edith Wharton, its influence on later writers from J. D. Salinger to John O'Hara cannot be overestimated. The book remains vividly alive and widely read years after its writing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history of American literature, is best known today for his novels, but during his lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolific achievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorable creations.
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man whois born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale of the people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Included in this volume is F. Scott Fitzgerald's provocative story, as well as Eric Roth's stunning screenplay, a bold re-imagining of this classic tale.

The French Riviera in the 1920s was 'discovered' by Dick and Nicole Diver who turned it into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who falls in love with Dick and is enraptured by Nicole, unaware of the corruption and dark secrets that haunt their marriage. When Dick becomes entangled with Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure of his relationship with Nicole and the lustre of their life together begins to tarnish. Tender is the Night is an exquisite novel that reflects not only Fitzgerald's own personal tragedy, but also the shattered idealism of the society in which he lived.

At the outset of what he called “the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. Celebrating the riotous energy and naïve optimism of a generation that believed itself liberated from the past, Fitzgerald’s early works, which are collected in this
volume, also sound a plaintive strain beneath the era’s wild cacophony, a lament for the wasted potential of youth. They remain the fullest literary expression of one of the most fascinating eras in American life.
(1920) gave Fitzgerald the early success that defined and haunted him for the rest of his career. Offering in its Princeton chapters the most enduring portrait of college life in American literature, this lyrical novel records the ardent and often confused longings of its hero’s struggles to find love and to formulate a philosophy of life.
(1920), a collection of accomplished short stories, includes such classics as “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong,” “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” and “The Ice Palace.”
Fitzgerald continues his dissection of a self-destructive era in his second novel,
(1922), as the self-styled aristocrat Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, are cut off from an inheritance and forced to endure the excruciating dwindling of their fortune. Here New York City, playground for the pleasure-loving Patches and brutal mirror of their dissipation, is portrayed more vividly than anywhere else in Fitzgerald’s work.
(1922), his second collection of stories, includes the novella “May Day,” featuring interlocking tales of debutantes, soldiers, and socialists brought together in the uncertain aftermath of World War I, and “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable in which the excesses of the Jazz Age take the hallucinatory form of a palace of unfathomable opulence hidden deep in the Montana Rockies.

"The Jelly-Bean"
"The Camel's Back"
"May Day"
"Porcelain and Pink"
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Tarquin of Cheapside"
"Oh Russet Witch!"
"The Lees of Happiness"
"Mr. Icky"
"Jemina"