书名：The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比；Tales Of The Jazz Age 爵士时代的故事

         The Beautiful and Damned 美丽与毁灭

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数990-1120

作者：F. Scott Fitzgerald

出版社：Harper Collins

ISBN：9780007368655；9780007925506；9780007925353；

语 种：英文

页数：1382

商品尺寸：11.1 x 9.8 x 17.8 cm

装帧：平装

出版日期：2012

本套小说收录了美国作家菲茨杰拉德所著的三部作品，包括The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》、Tales of the Jazz Age《爵士乐时代的故事》、The Beautiful and Damned《美丽与毁灭》。《了不起的盖茨比》一经问世，奠定了弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。这套书适合英语专业学生及对经典英语文学作品、美国文化感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德是二十世纪美国杰出作家，同时也是爵士时代的“编年史家”和“桂冠诗人”；
2.菲茨杰拉德这四本书浓缩并折射了光彩夺目的爵士时代的特征，高度戏剧化地表现了现代意识和传统观念之间的剧烈矛盾冲突；
3.《了不起的盖茨比》在美国现代文库评选的20世纪百佳英语小说中高居第二名并列入美国高中课程必读书籍，被多次改编为舞台剧和电影；
4.篇篇情节生动，寓意深刻，对这一时代精神面貌全面生动的写真；
5.柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解；
6.轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。
The Great Gatsby,Tales of the Jazz Age,The Beautiful and Damned,andTender Is the Night, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are all set in the American “Jazz Age” of the Roaring Twenties. All of them treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair.
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一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是对河岸那盏小小的绿灯——灯影婆娑中，住着心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。
The Great Gatsbyis told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story. It follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
《爵士乐时代的故事》是菲茨杰拉德第二部短篇小说集，共包括十一个短篇：《橡皮糖》《骆驼的后背》《五一节》《瓷浴盆与粉红色》《一颗像里兹饭店那么大的钻石》《返老还童》《齐普赛街的塔昆》《啊，赤褐色的女巫！》《幸福的辛酸》《黏糊先生》《山里姑娘杰米娜》。记录和描写了年轻一代的梦想、追求、爱情、痛苦、失望、艰辛、迷茫等复杂的人生经历，浓缩并折射了光彩夺目的爵士时代的特征，高度戏剧化地表现了现代意识和传统观念之间的剧烈矛盾冲突。
Tales of the Jazz Ageis a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in eitherMetropolitan Magazine (New York),Saturday Evening Post,Smart Set,Collier's,Chicago Sunday Tribune, orVanity Fair.

《美丽与毁灭》是一面镜子，映射出作者自传性色彩；也对美国暴发户的贪婪及纽约夜生活的挥霍、蒙蔽天赋的虚掷浪费，极尽令人刺目之嘲讽。一对新婚夫妇——安东尼·帕奇和葛罗丽亚——讲究而拘谨遇上轻挑又浪漫，像是红茶加巧克力的组合；他们追求华丽的上流生活，依凭上一辈的财富不事生产，终日纸醉金迷以致道德、经济、健康不断扭曲、沦落。
The Beautiful and Damned,first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy inTender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

弗朗西斯·司各特·菲茨杰拉德，二十世纪美国杰出作家。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，名声大噪。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。菲兹杰拉德不仅写长篇小说，短篇小说也频有特色。除上述两部作品外，主要作品还有《夜色温柔》（1934）和《末代大亨的情缘》（1941）。他的小说生动地反映了20年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面。
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American “Jazz Age” of the Roaring Twenties and includeThis Side of Paradise,The Beautiful and Damned,Tender Is the Night,The Great Gatsby,The Last Tycoon, andTales of the Jazz Age.

The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》
Tales Of The Jazz Age《爵士乐时代的故事》
My Last Flappers
The Jelly-Bean
The Camel’s Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink
Fantasies
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tarquin of Cheapside
“O Russet Witch”
Unclassified Masterpieces
The Lees of Happiness
Mr. Icky
Jemina, The Mountain Girl

The Beautiful and Damned《美丽与毁灭》
Book One
Chapter 1 Anthony Patch
Chapter 2 Portrait of a Siren
Chapter 3 The Connoisseur of Kisses
Book Two
Chapter 1 The Radiant Hour
Chapter 2 Symposium
Chapter 1 The Broken Lute
Book Three
Chapter 1 A Matter of Civilization
Chapter 2 A Matter of Aesthetics
Chapter 1 No Matter!

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”— it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men.