These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death Anthony & Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour A brilliant & magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling New York is a playground where they dance & drink for days on end Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive & lovely & they intend to inherit the earth But as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible & with their inheritance still distant Anthony & Gloria must grow up & face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned ...

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations & distractions of the 1920s Jazz Age His descent into dissolution & profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but turbulent Gloria & the couple soon discover the dangerous flip side of a life of glamour & debauchery ...

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald F Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful & the Damned

Includes:: an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern Classics Anthony Patch & his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour A brilliant & magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling New York is a playground where they dance & drink for days on end Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive & lovely & they intend to inherit the earth But as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible & with their inheritance still distant Anthony & Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful
- but they are also damned F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history & 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' & their traumatic marriage & 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 & the Damned Tender is the Night & incomplete at the time of his death The Last Tycoon After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact & in the literary sense he created a generation ' If you enjoyed The Beautiful & the Damned you might like John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer also available in Penguin Classics'A prose that has the tough delicacy of a garnet' New York Review of Books


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The Beautiful Badge is the first book to explore the history of football club badges From the original Red Devil to the GBP10 canary it looks at what inspired them who crafted them & how fans reacted Extensive illustrations show how badges followed fashion negotiated copyright & expressed the aspirations of owners managers & fans ...

The immune system holds the key to human health In The Beautiful Cure leading immunologist Daniel Davis describes the scientific quest to understand how it works
- & how it is affected by stress sleep age & our state of mind
- & explains how this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine & well-being The body's ability to fight disease & heal itself is one of the great mysteries & marvels of nature but within the last few years painstaking research has resulted in major advances in our understanding of the immune system revealing an inner world of breath-taking sophistication complexity & beauty Far more powerful than any medicine ever invented it also plays a crucial role in our daily lives Already we have found ways to harness these natural defences to create break-through drugs & therapies that help us fight cancer diabetes arthritis & many age-related diseases & we are starting to understand whether or not activities such as mindfulness might play a role in enhancing our physical resilience Written by an expert at the forefront of this adventure The Beautiful Cure tells a dramatic story of detective work & discovery of puzzles solved & of the mysteries that remain of lives sacrificed & saved introducing the reader to this revelatory new understanding of the human body & what it takes to be healthy

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In 1950s Paris Yves Saint Laurent & Karl Lagerfeld were friends the rising stars of the fashion world But by the late sixties the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation & hedonism & dominated by intrigue infidelities addiction & parties Each designer created his own mesmerizing world so vivid & seductive that people were drawn to the power charisma & fame & it was to make them bitter rivals The Beautiful Fall is a dazzling expose of an era & the story of the two men who were its essence & who remain its most singular survivors ...

From a delightful dahlia & luscious lily to a resplendent sunflower & pretty petunia there are forty puzzles in this book that gradually reveal as the reader connects the dots With each puzzle containing hundreds upon hundreds of dots keen puzzlers will be hooked for hours on end as they create beautiful floral art Each flower is accompanied by its Latin botanical name & the solutions are at the back of the book in case you can&t wait to see the finished product or need a little help along the way ...

At an Old Trafford game Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough Enraged he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58 Appalled his dad & granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game Dad & Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence & official negligence having experience racism in football fandom & survived the Hillsborough disaster Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football the great disasters of the twentieth century & the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 8 ...

Jim Shore's new Wizard of OZ collection is a heartfelt tribute to the 80th anniversary of the MGM classic film Dorothy enters the Wonderful World of OZ in this classic scene ranging from sepia tones to vivid Technicolor ...

Each poem in Sean O' Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room vista or landscape each drawn with the ...