Beschreibung:

The four stories in this book reflect the JazzrnAge that Scott Fitzgerald was said to have invented. It was a boom period in the US following the end of the First World War in 1918, when the young set out to enjoy themselves, dancing all night to the Charleston and ignoring the new laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol. Their parents disapproved, but invested everything they had in the stock market and in many cases lost it all in the great Wall Street crash of 1929, which affected the economy ofrnevery country in the world. some money as a screenwriter in Hollywood but while working on his novel The Last Tycoon he died suddenlyrnfrom a heart attack in December 1940.rnSince Fitzgerald’s death his reputation has grown until he is once more recognized as one of the greatest American novelists of the century, and his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby (1925), as perhaps the greatest novel.