Three hours between flights: Francis Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fingerld, who announced the world about the beginning of the new century – “Jazz Age”, stands apart in modern American classics. Hemingway wrote about him: “His talent was as natural as a pollen pattern on the wings of a butterfly.” His novels “Great Gatsby” and “The Night is Tender” influenced the formation of a new world literary tradition of the XX century. However, Fitzgerald is also known as the author of brilliant stories, from which only a small part was translated into Russian (the most classic of them are presented in the collection “The Mysterious History of Benjamin Batton”). The book “Three hours between flights” is already the fourth of several planned for publication, after the “new melodies of sad orchestras”, “costs of good upbringing” and “successful conquest of the world” – it is designed to fix this annoying omission. So, thirty -five stories of mature Fingerlda are offered to your attention – a complete collection of stories published in the last five years of his life in the famous magazine Esquire. IN…

Author
Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Translator
Darling Vasily
Publisher
ABC, 2013
Series
ABC Premium