The Last Tycoon

Download or read book The Last Tycoon written by Fitzgerald F.S. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1958 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. S. Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. «The Last Tycoon» is a magnifi cient story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America’s booming fi lm industry. The studio lot looks like ‘thirty acres of fairyland’ the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr’s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen.