當永不休止的美夢醒來，
剩下的只是無盡的孤寂。
在悲傷之中帶著愛與希望──
那是最閃亮的時代
也是最孤寂的時代
村上春樹最愛的作家
爵士時代最偉大的桂冠詩人──費茲傑羅
邀您一同品嘗失落的年代
曾經有過的甘美與苦澀
當夢的碎片散落一地，剩下的只是殘留指間，令人懷念的痛楚……
本書是《班傑明的奇幻旅程》的姐妹之作，也是最完整收錄《大亨小傳》作者費茲傑羅早期著作的一本合集。本書收錄了費氏在1922年前所完成的九篇作品，其中包括了村上春樹強力推薦的經典短篇〈殘火〉、〈水果軟糖〉，深刻描述1920年代紐約眾生相的名作〈幻夢的殘片〉，以及〈駱駝的背脊〉、〈噢，紅髮女巫〉等六篇風格各異的精彩短篇。
在本書中，費茲傑羅用他輕巧流利卻又感性深刻的筆鋒，描繪出一個又一個屬於爵士年代的傳奇故事。在那裡有爽朗活潑的南方姑娘、有窮困落魄的畫家、有衣冠畢挺的紳士、有翩翩起舞的淑女，有街頭遊蕩的流民……然而，不論是哪一種人，最終都要面臨人生中突然降臨的幸與不幸所帶來的種種考驗。在幸福中隱藏著不安，在悲劇中醞釀著快樂；透過一種極端個人的表述方式，費茲傑羅將自己的矛盾、無奈，對愛情的渴望與不安，以及對現實世界的敏銳觀察，化為一篇篇令人回首再三，感動不已的小說。
在理想與現實之間，殘存的美夢終要面對醒來的時刻，然而，或許仍會有某些東西保留下來……
在悲傷之中帶著愛與希望，爵士時代最偉大的桂冠詩人費茲傑羅，邀您一同體驗生命中曾經有過的種種珍貴回憶。

「所有生命都是邁向崩潰的過程。」

「在靈魂真正黝暗的深夜，時時刻刻都是凌晨三點，日復一日。」
本書收錄五篇費茲傑羅的經典傑作，包含四篇小說及一篇三段式散文。

〈冬之夢〉

翩然降臨的美女成了少年一輩子揮之不去的夢，那夢時遠時近，卻終將如雪水般消逝。其中可見代表作《大亨小傳》的原型，道盡所有關於愛的執迷與虛幻。

〈班傑明‧巴頓奇妙的一生〉

如果人的一生是從老到幼逆向而行，會是甚麼樣子？靈感來自馬克‧吐溫的一句話：「如果我們能夠從八十歲出生，逐漸接近十八歲，人生一定更美好。」費茲傑羅以此發想寫就，卻發現在時間無情的洪流之下，逆向而行的孤寂無奈。比電影更殘酷揪心的原作。

〈殘火〉

金童玉女般的作家與女演員結婚，幸福美滿的生活羨煞所有人，但無情的命運就在轉角處，等著改寫所有幸福的定義。費茲傑羅將自己對幸福的想像與對現實的無奈都投射其中，造就這篇既甜美又傷神的小說，也具體呈現費茲傑羅內在分合對立的矛盾性格。

〈最後的吻〉

剛嶄露頭角的製片人結識帶著明星夢跨洋而來的英國女孩，為她帶著悲劇氣息的美所吸引，卻只能見著她在殘酷的好萊塢中逐漸沉淪，隨著無數青春一同葬送於無উ

In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors.
is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote.
While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald's legendary "jazz age" social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald's literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult relationship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood.
For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard-drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'. A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it. The sharpness of Fitzgerald's prose, the steely simplicity of his style, give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties, from which Fitzgerald draws a painfully bitter-sweet love affair and bids his own poignant farewell to the Great American Dream.

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + 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 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.

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"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." -- James Dickey

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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.

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. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.

--Wikipedia

尋愛情的綠燈，為愛而執著的經典美國社會代表作
蓋茨比努力賺錢，追尋美國夢，一心攀上頂峰，他做的一切全為了富家女黛西。當年他因家貧未能與她結合，惟蓋茨比對舊愛念念不忘，他成為巨富後，就在黛西住的彼岸購入豪宅，經常遙望黛西家碼頭的綠光思念情人，甚至每逢週末都在家裏搞派對，只希望有一天見到黛西，他與黛西丈夫逐漸發生衝突，後來蓋茨比更被誤認為殺人兇手，生命受威脅……
本書特色
1. 含經典文學作品英語全文，保留原著精髓。
2. 中文翻譯幫助讀者閱讀經典文學作品。
3. 精裝作禮物書。

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most famous authors of the 20th century. Fitzgerald’s books and short stories on The Jazz Age are the most popular on that time period and his novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most classic works in English literature. This edition of Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night includes a table of contents.

In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. He eagerly awaited the reception of his masterpiece. T. S. Eliot immediately saw The Great Gatsby for what it was "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James," however, the reviewers and public were not enthusiastic. Only in the subsequent years, after Fitzgerald's death, has the novel The Great Gatsby come be seen as perhaps the great 20th century American novel, and the character Jay Gatsby, as one of the truly mythological creations in American culture.

The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

I want to be a society vampire, you see, she announced coolly, and went on to inform him that bobbed hair was the necessary prelude. She added that she wanted to ask his advice, because she had heard he was so critical about girls.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Full name Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. (1896 — 1940) A famous American novelist and short story writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He wrote four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night; (the last, unfinished novel The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously), numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair. The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan and explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess.

Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, where the party never seems to end, one thing will always be out of reach: the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby’s just across the bay. A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century.
This centennial edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel’s first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald’s masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and includes an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream; four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men—“Winter Dreams,” “The Rich Boy,” “The Sensible Thing,” and “Absolution”; and suggestions of a wide variety of multimedia resources for exploring the novel’s themes.

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James L. W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his 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.

Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse in seem more and more alien to him, he finds himself assailed by feelings of guilt and regret.

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's account of the American dream gone awry, has established itself as one of the most popular and widely read novels in the English language. Until now, however, no edition has printed the novel exactly as Fitzgerald intended. The first edition was marred by errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive rewriting in proof and the conditions under which the book was produced; moreover, the subsequent transmission of the text introduced proliferating departures from the author's words. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, together with Fitzgerald's subsequent revisions to key passages, to provide the first authoritative text of The Great Gatsby. This volume also includes a detailed account of the genesis, composition, and publication of the novel; a full textual apparatus; crucial early draft material; helpful glosses on the peculiar geography and chronology of the book; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references that contemporary readers might otherwise miss. Fitzgerald's masterpiece is thus brought closer to a cross-section of readers, more accessibly and more authentically than ever before. Matthew J. Bruccoli has published widely. He is the author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1980) and editor of New Essays on The Great Gatsby (CUP, 1985).