Babylon Revisited
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Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most celebrated chronicler of the Jazz Age. At the time of his death, he believed he was an alcoholic failure; but he received posthumous acclaim as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This collection brings together some of his finest stories, including 'The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button'; 'Winter Dreams', a melancholy thwarted love story that anticipated The Great Gatsby, and 'Babylon Revisited', set the year after the 1929 stock market crash, when the Jazz Age sounded its last.
'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings' Ernest Hemingway
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My first Fitzgerald - and definitively not my last! The two longer short stories ;) - Babylon Revisited and The Cut-Glass Bowl - were, well, remarkable! I can't think of a better word. I think I'll remember them for quite a time as they were both (though completely different) touching, sad and somehow strange but still they felt so real. They seemed to be typically 1920s-y and at the same time could just have happened to my neighbors yesterday. Only the last very short story - The Lost Decade - was a little too strange for my taste and that's the only reason why I rate with one star missing.
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Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was the most celebrated chronicler of the Jazz Age. At the time of his death, he believed he was an alcoholic failure; but he received posthumous acclaim as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. This collection brings together some of his finest stories, including 'The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button'; 'Winter Dreams', a melancholy thwarted love story that anticipated The Great Gatsby, and 'Babylon Revisited', set the year after the 1929 stock market crash, when the Jazz Age sounded its last.
'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings' Ernest Hemingway
Book Information
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My first Fitzgerald - and definitively not my last! The two longer short stories ;) - Babylon Revisited and The Cut-Glass Bowl - were, well, remarkable! I can't think of a better word. I think I'll remember them for quite a time as they were both (though completely different) touching, sad and somehow strange but still they felt so real. They seemed to be typically 1920s-y and at the same time could just have happened to my neighbors yesterday. Only the last very short story - The Lost Decade - was a little too strange for my taste and that's the only reason why I rate with one star missing.