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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikiquote  2 Quotes about F. Scott Fitzgerald; 3 External links ... There are no second acts in American lives. ... My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. ..... Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation  the test of a...
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Great Scott! Fitzgerald is enjoying a third act | Books | The Guardian  Feb 5, 2012 ... New stage and film adaptations of The Great Gatsby attest to Scott Fitzgerald's enduring ... In one of his most famous and personal obiter dicta, F Scott Fitzgerald once bitterly observed: "There are no second acts in American lives. ... These "opposed ideas" are an inner conviction of failure at odds with the...
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Fitzgerald Might Disagree With His 'No Second Acts' Line : NPR  May 8, 2013 ... ... this: F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, there are no second acts in American lives. ... here is: I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives, ... And for all that these politicians do find new successes in life, they...
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The Notebooks of Scott Fitzgerald  The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald ..... 114 We throw in one of these flowers. You know how frails ...... 428 There are no second acts in American lives. 429 My...
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Ruth Prigozy. Scott, Zelda, and the culture of celebrity  F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized figures in American literary and ... the exception to his own belief that there are no second acts in American lives. ..... Fitzgerald would launch a stream of apparently spontaneous observations on .... When these two people at the height of their success met the Broadway of the...
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The Road to West Egg | Vanity Fair  In F. Scott Fitzgerald's unflinching farewell to the American Dream lie the ... those who first read it were much nearer in time to Henry James and even Charles ... Recall that Tom Buchanan is described in the opening pages as one of .... It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around...
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How 'Gatsby' Went From A Moldering Flop To A Great American ...  Sep 8, 2014 ... Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has just published a new book of her ... is a novel that doesn't feature any likable female characters. ... It's a story in which you get bootlegging crime, explicit sexuality .... Even when he died in 1940, Fitzgerald was denied burial in his own ..... The bubble bursts fairly quickly.
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The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography | CliffsNotes  F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life ... It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald ... She suffered a second breakdown less than six months later in February 1932...
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OPERA REVIEW; Music Catering to the Words of Fitzgerald  December 22, 1999 ... ne came away from ''The Great Gatsby'' at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night thinking not so much about Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway or even Gatsby himself, but of what a nice man John Harbison must be. ... pre-premiere publicity; and finally an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of iconic stature.
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The Avant-Garde - Digital History  ... and that authors William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas ... intellectuals when she told Ernest Hemingway in 1921, "You are all a lost generation. ... In The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929),...
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The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia  The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a ... First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work...
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"Privileged Glimpses"  F. Scott Fitzgerald was never really satisfied with the title of his third novel. ... but as he worked on the book between April 1924 and April 1925, Fitzgerald ... His first thought was to call it, Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires, but his editor, Max .... One of the things that impressed me as I reread Gatsby this summer was how...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography - Wikipedia  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896  December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. ... Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and ... Title, Publication, Contents, E-text.
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A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's - World Socialist Web Site  May 14, 2013 ... In the 1925 novel, the various desperate and delusional relationships set ... with innumerable receptacles to contain it, Luhrmann generates a virtual greenhouse on screen. ... In the film, the last line is delivered perfectly by DiCaprio. .... They were careless people, Tom and Daisythey smashed up things...
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The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia  The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a ... Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he ..... Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires; Trimalchio; Trimalchio in West Egg; On the .... of Fitzgerald's success: "One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of regret,...
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Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play: Tennessee Williams ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author ... Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become .... Toward the end of his life, Strindberg wrote several dramas that he described as "ghost plays"--plays that abandoned linear...
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SparkNotes: This Side of Paradise  F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... Book I, Chapter 1: Amory, Son of Beatrice. ... Readers' Notes allow users to add their own analysis and insights to our SparkNotesand to discuss those ideas with one another.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikipedia  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896  December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose .... Their daughter and only child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on .... From 1939 until his death in 1940, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a...
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The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography | CliffsNotes  Get free homework help on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: book summary, chapter ... He would publish three more stories in the next two years. ... One week after its publication, Scott and Zelda were married in New York. ... collections of short stories during his lifetime: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography - Brandeis Users' Home Pages  The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribners, 1925; London: Chatto & Windus, 1926). ... has established Fitzgerald as one of the major novelists and story writers of the ... As a boy Scott used to imagine that he was born of royal blood but had ...... I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of...
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The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia  The Great Gatsby is a 1925 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 in the summer of 1922. .... Thomas "Tom" Buchanan  a millionaire who lives on East Egg, and Daisy's ..... It is a famous example of a lost film.