Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past.
From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age. From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties.
Po dokončení „Podivuhodného příběhu Benjamina Buttona“ v roce 1922 jej F. Scott Fitzgerald označil za „nejzábavnější povídku, jaká byla kdy sepsána“ a za „jeden ze svých dvou nejoblíbenějších příběhů“. Je to zvláštní případ muže, který se „narodí“ jako sedmdesátiletý a tajemně mládne.
From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of 'The Great Gatsby' and including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.
A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade".
For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always
This attractively designed edition of the classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties is bound in genuine bonded leather, with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon marker.
A gorgeous clothbound edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.
