Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Last TycoonCondition: NewEAN: 9780141185637ISBN: 9780141185637Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/31/2002Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 12mmItem Weight: 157gAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0141185635Description: Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching.F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.If you enjoyed The Last Tycoon, you might enjoy Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics.'Wonderful ... a novel about Hollywood, written from the inside'Helen Dunmore, Sunday TimesCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Last Tycoon
Publication Name: The Last Tycoon
Title: The Last Tycoon
EAN: 9780141185637
ISBN: 9780141185637
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/31/2002
Release Year: 2002
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 157g
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141185635
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Topic: Classic Fiction