Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Penguin
05 September 2023

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fantasy

Series: Little Clothbound Classics

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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

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9780241630839
ISBN 10: 0241630835
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.