Breaking Down Fitzgerald av Helen M. (University of Essex UK) Turner

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<p><b>A practical guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald''s works for middle and secondary students</b></p><p>F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and writer best known for his glamourous novels that detailed life in America''s Jazz Age¿a term which he popularized. Throughout his career, Fitzgerald published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories in magazines. His work commonly focused on themes of ambition and loss, money and class, and the promise and disappointment of America and its vaunted dream. In his lifetime, Fitzgerald gained fame for his <i>The Great Gatsby</i> and <i>This Side of Paradise</i>. Today, his works are taught in middle and high school classrooms throughout the United States and worldwide.</p><p><i>Breaking Down Fitzgerald</i> provides readers with an overview of Fitzgerald''s life and investigates the composition, characters, themes, symbols, language, and motifs in his work and their relation to contemporary society. Auth