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Loading... Diamond As Big As the Ritz & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) (edition 1999)by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Great collection of stories by one of the American literary masters. Really enjoyed May Day, and the title story is a bizarre and otherworldly tale about riches and murder that is as entertaining as it is deep. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'May Day', 'The Rich Boy', 'Crazy Sunday', 'An Alcoholic Case', 'The Lees of Happiness', 'The Lost Decade' and 'Babylon Revisited'. AUTHOR: There are few, if any, classic novelists whose current popularity exceeds that of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). With his novels and short stories of "The Jazz Age", Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century, and 'The Great Gatsby' is his masterpiece. No library descriptions found. |
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