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Ao se mudar para a casa ao lado, Nick Carraway adentra o mundo de extravagância e luxo de Jay Gatsby, um misterioso milionário que, na verdade, busca a atenção de um antigo amor, Daisy Buchanan, de quem se separou na Primeira Guerra Mundial.

Conto publicado por F. Scott Fitzgerald em 1922 narra a história de Benjamin Button, um homem que nasce velho e rejuvenesce ao longo dos anos. Uma narrativa que mistura uma veia cômica com uma melancólica, apresenta as diferentes etapas da vida reversa de Benjamin, bem como um retrato da sociedade do fim do século XIX e começo do século XX.

The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

These novelists burst with a literary energy that is hard to contain. They cover a myriad of styles and themes, narratives packed full of fully-formed characters in powerful tales that have become an essential and integral part of our literary heritage.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.

Agora você pode viver o sonho americano! Bem-vindo à mansão de Gatsby! Depois de receber um convite para uma festa luxuosa e extravagante em Long Island, Nick Carraway, um jovem solteiro que acaba de se mudar para Nova York, fica curioso a respeito do anfitrião, o misterioso Jay Gatsby. Excêntrico, porém reservado, Gatsby é um self-made man cujo passado é desconhecido e com negócios obscuros. À medida que Nick e Gatsby começam uma amizade improvável, Nick descobre que nem tudo que reluz é ouro, e que tudo o que seu vizinho mais quer na vida é recuperar o amor de Daisy, prima de Nick.

Awful, rich people - and the folks who want to be just like them. Drawing freely from the real people and actual events of its setting in 1920s Long Island (with literary license, of course), The Great Gatsby looks at the acquisition of the American Dream of wealth, power, and prestige, and what the costs are to those who realize that dream. And if that sounds a bit too highbrow for you, there are speakeasies, a broken nose, wild parties, and a bit of rough and tumble as well.

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey has been the standard translation for more than three generations of students and poets. Macmillan Audio is delighted to publish the first ever audio edition of this classic work, the greatest of all epic poems. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited for audio, recounting the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language listener in all its glory.

The 1989 Ironman World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports. In a spectacular duel that became known as the Iron War, the world's two strongest athletes raced side by side at world-record pace for a grueling 139 miles. Driven by one of the fiercest rivalries in triathlon, Dave Scott and Mark Allen raced shoulder to shoulder through Ironman’s 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race, and 26.2-mile marathon. After 8 punishing hours, both men would demolish the previous record - and cross the finish line a mere 58 seconds apart.

Winter is a captivating and truly gorgeous season, but we refuse to engage with it. We block it out. We turn the heating up against the cold and draw curtains against the darkness. However, as Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald explains, in ignoring the spectacular beauty of winter we miss out on an opportunity no other season presents. The winter we experience doesn't need to be harsh and barren. Gifts of Winter draws the listener into the miracles that occur in nature during winter, as our gardens and the world around us are most definitely not asleep.

Nico and his cousins don't have much in common, but they're all excited to visit the Mayan ruins at Copán and witness the release of the scarlet macaws. Nearly extinct in Honduras, eight of these majestic birds are about to be introduced to a brand new bird sanctuary. But on the eve of the big day the birds are stolen! Who could have planned this bewildering bird heist—and why? Nico and his cousins are determined to find out—and anyone could be a suspect: poachers, developers, Mama's annoying novio . . .

Il grande Gatsby, l'ambizioso giovanotto che ha saputo conquistarsi, con tutti i mezzi leciti e illeciti, prestigio, ricchezza e rispettabilità, culla un sogno impossibile. Vuol far rivivere l'amore fiorito un tempo tra lui e Daisy, che lo ha respinto, quando era povero e senza prospettive, per sposare il rampollo di una delle grandi famiglie americane.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” Step into the dazzling, deceptive world of the 1920s—a world bathed in champagne, jazz, and whispered secrets. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald invites us to peer beyond the shimmering curtain of the American Dream, exposing the illusions that lie at its glittering heart. This is not just a love story. It is a haunting elegy for a generation intoxicated by wealth, ambition, and the desperate need to reinvent oneself.

Les Dieux ont menti : Perséphone n'a jamais été kidnappée ni retenue aux Enfers par Hadès. Elle s'y est précipitée. Vous pensez que Perséphone a été kidnappée par Hadès et retenue aux Enfers ? Détrompez-vous : elle s'y est précipitée. Hors de question pour la jeune déesse d'accepter le mariage arrangé auquel ses parents la destinent ! Maintenant, elle doit convaincre Hadès de l'aider.

On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly isolated by a mysterious illness that overtook him while trekking through Asia, Brian is unaware that this bird?who he names Two-Step?will change his life. Brian takes in Two-Step, and more injured birds, eventually transforming his home into a madcap bird rehabilitation and rescue center. As Brian and Two-Step grow closer, an unexpected kinship forms.

Llegué al Inframundo escapando de un matrimonio arreglado. No iba a permitir que me casaran con Apolo, un dios que solo puede pensar en sí mismo. Ahora, lo único que necesito es que Hades, el odiosamente sexy y arrogante rey de este escabroso lugar, me ayude con mi plan.

A dystopian fantasy world where magic, and technology co-mingle and otherworldly species are known of by a small few. Those with magic try to keep a low profile at threat of losing opportunities, relationships, or disappearing entirely. Nathan Clouse is a resilient young man with unique magic and a troubled past. After escaping an abusive home he has been living amongst a group of outcasts and working odd jobs to support himself. He hopes that one day his skills as an inventor will pave the way to a better life.

Cuando Casandra, la devota sacerdotisa de Apolo, recibió el don de la profecía a cambio de complacer todos los deseos del dios, jamás imaginó que negarse a entregarle su cuerpo sería su perdición. Helena huye de un matrimonio infeliz en Esparta y sigue a Paris, un príncipe troyano que le promete la relación que siempre soñó. Mientras los hombres de Troya se preparan para enfrentar la guerra, Casandra y Helena descubren que deben lidiar con algo más que el ejército que acecha afuera de sus murallas.

Book One: The Romantic Egotist. Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, believes that he has a great destiny, but the precise nature of this destiny eludes him. He attends a preparatory school where he becomes a football quarterback. He grows estranged from his eccentric mother Beatrice Blaine and becomes the protégé of Monsignor Thayer Darcy, a Catholic priest. During his sophomore year at Princeton, he returns to Minneapolis over Christmas break and falls in love with Isabelle Borgé, a wealthy debutante whom he first met as a boy. Amory and Isabelle embark upon a romance.

This Side of Paradise is a 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of unfulfilling romances with young women. The novel explores themes of love warped by greed and social ambition.