Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The tragic and haunting story of Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist whose career is thwarted and his genius numbed through marriage to the exquisite and wealthy Nicole Warren.

Newly rich Jay Gatsby loved beautiful, wealthy Daisy long before he made money. And while he was poor, she chose to marry a wealthy man. When they meet again Jay and Daisy find they are still drawn to each other but this new awareness will bring tragedy to them both.

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, this is the story of Dick Diver, a psychiatrist, and Nicole, his bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient. They marry and begin a ten-year relationship that borders between sanity and madness. This is the most autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels.

World War I had accelerated the change from the Victorian Era to "modernism" in America and Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Amory Blaine from his school years to the start of an uncertain career in New York, filled with parties and a new morality.

An examination of the life and work of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose novel, "The Great Gatsby," is often called "The Great American Novel.".

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. The Great Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerald's sixth published book and is one of two American books loved by both literary critics and a wide, general audience. When he wrote it, Fitzgerald was already a well-known writer.

Literary Masters is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics). Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author and covers basic biographical information. F. Scott Fitzgerald is linked with the 1920's and many of his novels and short stories deal with the mood and the events of that era. He was also a part of the "lost generation", a group of writers affected with disillusionment because of World War I and its aftermath.