Scott Francis: 161 books

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz est l'émouvant témoignage d'un écrivain charismatique, chef de file de la célèbre " génération perdue ". Non seulement ce recueil révèle un Fitzgerald extravagant, tendre et mélancolique, mais il évoque aussi une période très ancrée dans l'imaginaire...

Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre...

C'est en vain qu'à deux reprises Scott Fitzgerald proposa à son éditeur et ami Maxwell Perkins de réunir en volume un certain nombre de ses écrits personnels. Le petit nombre de ceux qui furent publiés après sa mort par Edmund Wilson dans The Crack-up a témoigné, pourtant, de leur qualité...

Innovation numérique pédagogique : adaptation de la série BILINGUE de Pocket-Langues Pour Tous ! Une nouvelle rendue encore plus célèbre par son adaptation hollywoodienne. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose : • une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes •...

Tender Is the Night is a classic romance novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in 1933 and it is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century.

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the...

While "The Great Gatsby" is a highly specific portrait of American society during the Roaring Twenties, its story is also one that has been told hundreds of times, and is perhaps as old as America itself: a man claws his way from rags to riches, only to find that his wealth cannot afford...

By examining international fishery resources from a primarily economic and political viewpoint, this book highlights the common property aspects of fisheries, physical productivity of the ocean, supply and demand, and the legal and institutional framework within which the fisheries industry operates. Originally published in 1966

Giving and receiving mercy is central to living a life of passion and is central to living the life God calls us to. We all need mercy at different times in our lives, and we all have an obligation to give mercy to others at different times in our lives. If you think about it, God’s mercy is overwhelmingly...

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the future of US warfare, including its military practices and the domestic and global challenges it faces. The need to undertake a comprehensive analysis about the future of warfare for the US is more pressing today than ever before. New technologies...

   A room in the down-stairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and so on....

The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran from the Midwest – who serves as the novel's narrator – takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the (fictional) village of West Egg,...

Originally published in the periodical The Metropolitan, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write...

Nel mondo fastoso e frivolo degli anni Venti Jay Gatsby consuma il sogno americano di quegli ‘anni ruggenti’ tra jazz e champagne, feste favolose in ville mozzafiato, truffatori colossali e signore sempre inquiete. Ma il grande Gatsby tutte le sere guarda dall'altra parte della baia. Perché?...