The crackle of gin on ice, the first chords of the band, the low hum of gossip– whether you love or loathe parties, Fitzgerald writes them like no one else. From glittering occasions complete with an orchestra and dancing girls to a fist-fight at the end of a toddler’s birthday, this is a dazzling collection of party pieces from the master of celebration. Selected from The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and Flappers and Philosophers

Yaşlı bir adam olarak dünyaya gelip zamanla gençleşme fikri F. Scott Fitzgerald'ı büyülüyordu. Yazarın iki yıl boyunca zihninde evirip çevirdikten sonra 1922 yılında yazdığı Benjamin Button'ın Tuhaf Hikâyesi'ni Mark Twain'in şu sözü esinlemişti: "Hayatın en iyi kısmının başta, en kötü kısmının da sonda olması ne yazık." Fitzgerald bu en bilinen hikâyesinde 1860 yılında yaşlı bir adam olarak doğup giderek gençleşen Benjamin Button'ın hayatını anlatır. Benjamin Button yalnızca yaşlı bir adamın bedeniyle dü

For a moment now she was beside Dick Diver on the path. Alongside his hard, neat brightness everything faded into the surety that he knew everything. For a year, which was forever, she had had money and a certain celebrity and contact with the celebrated, and these latter had presented themselves merely as powerful enlargements of the people with whom the doctor's widow and her daughter had associated in a hôtel-pension in Paris. Rosemary was a romantic and her career had not provided many satisfactory oppo

So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York—or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car. Tom deferred that much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train. She had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin which stretched tight over her rather wide hips as Tom helped her to the platform in New York. At the news-stand she bought a copy of Town Tattle and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a smal