Babylon Revisited

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547802945

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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald's Greatest Short Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age". Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression, and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. The story Babylon Revisited is based on a true incident regarding Fitzgerald, his daughter "Scottie", his sister-in-law Rosalind and her husband Newman Smith, on whom Marion and Lincoln Peters are based. Rosalind and Newman had not been able financially to live as well as Scott and Zelda had lived during the 1920s, and they had always regarded Scott as an irresponsible drunkard whose obsession with high living was responsible for Zelda's mental problems. When Zelda suffered a breakdown and was committed to a sanitarium in Switzerland, Rosalind felt that Scott was unfit to raise their daughter and that Rosalind and Newman should adopt her. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Table of Contents: The Ice Palace May Day The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams Absolution The Rich Boy The Freshest Boy Babylon Revisited Crazy Sunday The Long Way Out

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684842509

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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180947336

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Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

»Babylon Revisited« is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in 1931. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].

Author : John Rhodes
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438946795

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Mystic Babylon Revisited by John Rhodes Pdf

This book is dedicated to Jan Kerouac, the late daughter of Jack Kerouac who I knew well in the 60's in Yelapa, Mexico, with the hippies, 30 miles from any road. She lived in a thatched hut next to mine there. I remember seeing later, in the English, Mexico City News, "Jack Kerouac's Daughter, Jan Kerouac, has disappeared, whereabouts unknown." The first poem in the book is a poem I wrote to the spirit of Jan. Here is a small quote from that poem: "We know the significance of us being a piece of the big puzzle but we don't see all the pieces together melded as one demur picture...we seem so separate, but so cock-sure. "Things slip by," don't they Jan? My memory is flashing...this wheel is on fire!" The first chapter of her Memoirs, "Baby Driver", is like a recording tape of everything she had echoed to me in casual conversation. I think she thought things out in plots from the very beginning. You can find out more about me by going to: http: //sanfranciscopoetry.blip.tv http: //mysticbabylon.podomatic.com http: //littlebirdtoldme.podomatic.com http: //poetryhotel.podomatic.com (A collaboration of videos with poetess friend Clara Hsu) http: //writerunion.podomatic.com (Unofficial San Francisco Writers Union videos produced by me.)

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410340788

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A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Gregory Lessing Garrett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359888764

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The Gnostic Luciferian New Age Babylon Revisited by Gregory Lessing Garrett Pdf

The Gnostic Luciferian New Age "Utopia" will be based upon a Mystery Babylon re-visitation of tolerance for all behaviors narcissistically self-indulgent, sexually perverse, psychoactively induced, and sinfully decadent, with self-worship and self-adulation as the highest pinnacle of religious zeal. Additionally, utilizing the trickery and artifice of an Alien Antichrist Messiah Deception, the Luciferian Elite seek to obliterate Christianity and replace it with a Gnostic Pantheistic Cosmogenesis narrative, where Ancient Aliens are our true genetic origins, and Cosmic Evolution, with Mankind in tow, is the Grand Design of the Universe. Since this is a very real situation which effects all the world in the direst sort of way, the contents of this book are relevant to all citizens of the world. This book bravely explores the various guises that this repackaged Babylonian Gnostic Luciferianism has taken and how it got to this point, as well as offers answers to this nefarious situation.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547672685

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BABYLON REVISITED & OTHER TALES by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age". Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression, and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. The story Babylon Revisited is based on a true incident regarding Fitzgerald, his daughter "Scottie", his sister-in-law Rosalind and her husband Newman Smith, on whom Marion and Lincoln Peters are based. Rosalind and Newman had not been able financially to live as well as Scott and Zelda had lived during the 1920s, and they had always regarded Scott as an irresponsible drunkard whose obsession with high living was responsible for Zelda's mental problems. When Zelda suffered a breakdown and was committed to a sanitarium in Switzerland, Rosalind felt that Scott was unfit to raise their daughter and that Rosalind and Newman should adopt her. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Table of Contents: The Ice Palace May Day The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams Absolution The Rich Boy The Freshest Boy Babylon Revisited Crazy Sunday The Long Way Out

Author : Francis Beeding
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795328947

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The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding Pdf

A novel of psychological terror set in a mental asylum that became the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. From the outset, the air that Beeding’s characters breathe crackles with ominous electricity. This is surely what appealed to Alfred Hitchcock when he found Beeding’s The House of Dr. Edwardes and used it as the inspiration for his unforgettable film Spellbound. The “house” of the title is a lunatic asylum in France and Dr. Edwardes is the head psychiatrist. While Edwardes is held in high esteem, an almost iconic figure in psychiatric circles, there is something clearly amiss. The novel opens with a puzzling, ominous episode in which a patient being transported to the asylum grows agitated as the car bringing him there approaches. The patiently suddenly screams: “the gorge of the devil” and then attacks and kills one of the supervisors, a promising but inexperienced psychiatrist. This opens a position that Dr. Sedgwick accepts, but on arrival, she learns that Dr. Edwardes has taken a leave of absence to calm his nerves. It doesn’t take her long to discover that the house is hardly in order. Unlike Hitchcock’s Spellbound, The House of Dr. Edwardes owes less to Freud, displaying much closer affinities with the brooding, psychological landscapes of Gothic novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The result is a compelling work—part mystery, part modern Gothic.

Author : F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141970028

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Babylon Revisited by F Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember' F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. This book includes Babylon Revisited, The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Lost Decade.

Author : Benjamin R. Foster,Karen Polinger Foster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691149974

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Civilizations of Ancient Iraq by Benjamin R. Foster,Karen Polinger Foster Pdf

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia--from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. Ancient Iraq was home to remarkable achievements. One of the birthplaces of civilization, it saw the world's earliest cities and empires, writing and literature, science and mathematics, monumental art, and innumerable other innovations. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq gives special attention to these milestones, as well as to political, social, and economic history. And because archaeology is the source of almost everything we know about ancient Iraq, the book includes an epilogue on the discovery and fate of its antiquities. Compelling and timely, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq is an essential guide to understanding Mesopotamia's central role in the development of human culture.

Author : PENGUIN CLASSICS
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 014119670X

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Mini Modern Classics by PENGUIN CLASSICS Pdf

A set of 50 fascinating, disturbing, moving or funny short books published in an appealing new format to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penguin Modern Classics

Author : Ouida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000114910239

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Under Two Flags by Ouida Pdf

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443423243

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Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

As a young, wealthy, and good-looking man, Charlie fit right into the jazz-age scene. But when his easy life comes crashing down with the stock market in 1929, Charlie ends up losing his passionate young wife and his daughter, Honoria. As Charlie sets out to convince his in-laws to return his daughter to his care, he reminisces about the life he lived and the path that led to his current state. “Babylon Revisited” is a semi-autobiographical story based on the period in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life when his wife, Zelda, was committed to a sanitarium. During that time, Fitzgerald’s sister-in-law, blaming him for her sister’s state of mind, tried to adopt the couple’s daughter. The story was adapted into the 1954 movie The Last Time I Saw Paris starring Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Alan Margolies,Ruth Prigozy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820343549

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F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jackson R. Bryer,Alan Margolies,Ruth Prigozy Pdf

Years after his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to captivate both the popular and the critical imagination. This collection of essays presents fresh insights into his writing, discussing neglected texts and approaching familiar works from new perspectives. Seventeen scholarly articles deal not only with Fitzgerald's novels but with his stories and essays as well, considering such topics as the Roman Catholic background of The Beautiful and Damned and the influence of Mark Twain on Fitzgerald's work and self-conception. The volume also features four personal essays by Fitzgerald's friends Budd Schulberg, Frances Kroll Ring, publisher Charles Scribner III, and writer George Garrett that shed new light on his personal and professional lives. Together these contributions demonstrate the continued vitality of Fitzgerald's work and establish new directions for ongoing discussions of his life and writing.

Author : Fitzgerald F.S.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785521068906

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Taps at Reveille by Fitzgerald F.S. Pdf

F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «Taps at Reveille» is a collection of brilliant short stories: «The Scandal Detectives», «The Freshest Boy», «He Thinks He’s Wonderful», «The Captured Shadow», «The Perfect Life», «First Blood», «A Nice Quiet Place», «A Woman with a Past», «Crazy Sunday», «Two Wrongs», «The Night of Chancellorsville» and many others.