A collection of radio readings of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction - plus two bonus programmes Over the years the BBC has broadcast readings of many of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels, novellas and short stories. This collection includes some of his most famous works alongside various lesser-known tales, including three 'lost stories' (first published in 2017 and with an introduction written by editor Anne Margaret Daniel). Contents: The Great Gatsby - read by Sam Robards The Diamond as Big as the Ritz - read by Garrick Hagon Tender is the Night - read by Kenneth Haigh Babylon Revisited - read by Stuart Milligan The Sensible Thing - read by Stuart Milligan Bernice Bobs Her Hair - read by Laurel Lefkow Financing Finnegan - read by John SharianThe Smilers - read by John SharianAn Alcoholic Case - read by John SharianThree Hours Between Planes - read by John Sharian Pat Hobby's Secret - read by Ed BishopPat Hobby: Teamed with Genius - read by Ed BishopPat Hobby and Orson Welles - read by Ed BishopPat Hobby: The Homes of the Stars - read by Ed Bishop Thank You for the Light - read by Karen Bartke, with an introduction read by Laurel LefkowThe Couple - read by Finn den Hertog Salute to Lucy and Elsie - read by Stuart MilliganAlso included are The Great Gatsby Letters, in which F. Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor about his hopes and fears for his new novel, and The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring Ed Bishop and Sarah Keller as Fitzgerald and Zelda.Please note: some of the language in this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast.

Vorwort
The collected BBC Radio 4 readings of novels, novellas and short stories by F Scott Fitzgerald

Autorentext
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

Zusammenfassung

A collection of radio readings of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction plus two bonus programmes

Over the years the BBC has broadcast readings of many of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels, novellas and short stories. This collection includes some of his most famous works alongside various lesser-known tales, including three 'lost stories' (first published in 2017 and with an introduction written by editor Anne Margaret Daniel).

Contents:
The Great Gatsby - read by Sam Robards
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz - read by Garrick Hagon
Tender is the Night - read by Kenneth Haigh
Babylon Revisited - read by Stuart Milligan
The Sensible Thing - read by Stuart Milligan
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - read by Laurel Lefkow
Financing Finnegan - read by John Sharian
The Smilers - read by John Sharian
An Alcoholic Case - read by John Sharian
Three Hours Between Planes - read by John Sharian
Pat Hobby's Secret - read by Ed Bishop
Pat Hobby: Teamed with Genius - read by Ed Bishop
Pat Hobby and Orson Welles - read by Ed Bishop
Pat Hobby: The Homes of the Stars - read by Ed Bishop
Thank You for the Light - read by Karen Bartke, with an introduction read by Laurel Lefkow
The Couple - read by Finn den Hertog
Salute to Lucy and Elsie - read by Stuart Milligan

Also included are The Great Gatsby Letters, in which F. Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor about his hopes and fears for his new novel, and The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring Ed Bishop and Sarah Keller as Fitzgerald and Zelda.

Please note: some of the language in this recording reflects the era in which it was first broadcast.