The Last Tycoon The Diamond As Big As The Ritz

Творчество Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов “эпохи джаза”, остаётся актуальным и интересным и по сей день. В эту книгу вошел блистательный и загадочный рассказ "Алмаз величиной с отель «Риц»" и роман “Последний магнат”, опубликованный уже после смерти Фицджеральда. Он рисует читателю правдивую картину "золотого века" Голливуда: фейерверки событий из красивой жизни звёзд, километры отснятой киноплёнки и зловещая пустота, которую обязательно придётся чем-то заполнить. Впрочем, все сильные люди имеют свои слабости, и главный герой романа – не исключение... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.

Includes stories such as: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited.

The title story transports the reader to a fabulous fantasyland of such opulence that it has to remain a secret and jealously-guarded domain. Fatal consequences lie in store for bona fide and uninvited guests alike. Other stories included are The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Rich Boy.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915.

The Great Gatsby has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and its influence on later writers from J.D. Salinger to John OHara cannot be overestimated. Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from Kentucky 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 play out the drama in a small Long Island town, Fitzgerald makes it 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.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915.[1]

This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes.