Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby. The last tycoon. Gift book bound in leather

"The Great Gatsby"

"The Great Gatsby" is the pinnacle not only in the work of F. S. Fitzgerald, but also one of the highest achievements in the world prose of the XX century. Although the novel takes place in the "turbulent" twenties of the last century, when fortunes were made literally out of nothing and yesterday's criminals became millionaires overnight, this book lives out of time, because, telling about the broken destinies of the generation of the "jazz age", it has long become a universal symbol of the senselessness of a person's pursuit of a false goal.

"The Last Tycoon" is the last novel of the great Fitzgerald, published after his death. The story is about the" golden age " of Hollywood – that irrevocably departed era when cinema was still not a business, but an Art.

Movie mogul Monroe Star (whose prototype was the legendary producer Irving Thalberg) is a real darling of fate, a lucky guy who caught the "American dream" by the tail. There is no place for weaknesses in his successful life, except for one-love for a young starlet who understands perfectly well: decent girls are very expensive at the "dream factory", where everything is sold…