THE GREAT GATSBY - COLLINS CLASSROOM CLASSICS
This edition of The Great Gatsby provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area.
Affordable high quality complete text of The Great Gatsby, ideal for AS and A Level Literature
Perfectly pitched introductions provide the depth and demand required by AS and A Level
Explore the contemporary context, F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing, the novel's critical reception and subsequent interpretations for a deeper reading of the text
Expand your further reading with a list of key articles and critical and theoretical texts
Improve your understanding of the novel with unfamiliar concepts and culturally-specific terms defined in the glossary
FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon his last and unfinished work : six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'
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FITZGERALD FRANCIS SCOTT
Francis Scott Fitzgerald nació el 24 de septiembre de 1896 en Saint Paul, Minnesota, y murió el 21 de diciembre de 1940 en Hollywood, California. Estudió en la Universidad de Princeton, aunque no concluyó sus estudios, y se dedicó a la escritura. Publicó su primera novela A este lado del paraíso en 1920, que le dio reconocimiento inmediato. Es autor de obras como El gran Gatsby, Suave es la noche y El último magnate, además de numerosos cuentos. Su producción literaria refleja la vida de la llamada Generación Perdida y el ambiente de los años veinte en Estados Unidos.
