''to write it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life''F. Scott Fitzgerald''s first novel, This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood...
Amidst prosperity of the 1920s in New York we see a portrait of the Jazz Age, with its decadence and excess. This novel is considered Fitzgerald 's best work and captures the spirit of the author's generation. A love story and a cautionary tale abou...
Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died ...
"Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America''s booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wil...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story consi...
Spine is uncreased with some rubbing, former owner's name is written on inside page, covers have a bit of edgewear, a couple of dog ears on the back, otherwise pages are bright, tight, clean and unmarked....
A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting i...
In this first complete chronological collection of Fitzgerald's writings for two Princeton publications, we witness the young writer's dramatic growth. His word capture the spirit of an America about to enter Jazz Age, and the abundant, often-whimsic...
"A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken", was how F. Scott Fitzgerald defined his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of ...
Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings togeth...
What we know of that unique period in American history labeled the Jazz Age has been defined by F. Scott Fitzgerald's piercing fiction.
His short stories brilliantly realize an era both exploding with opportunity and seething with decadence....
FOR THE FIRST TIME, all the commercially published short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before and during his work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby, have been collected in one volume. Published between 1919 and 1923,...
This is the first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighborhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, where a poor boy with energy and intelligence can break in...
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as th...
BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR: When boring Bernice visits her extended family, her glamorous cousin Marjorie desides to make her over, if only to keep her from being a drag on her social life. The transformation is successful and Bernice becomes popular w...
Known today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections -- Flappers and Philosophe...
During the last six years of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an Esquire author. Between 1934 and 1940, Fitzgerald sold some forty-five pieces of writing to the magazine - fiction, nonfiction, and personal essays. This volume of the Cambridge Editio...
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success t...
The Four Fists is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgerald's short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American au...
Head and Shoulders is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarboxthe headanswers the door to Vaudeville star Marciathe shoulders. Marcia's performance is but the first step in an astonishing role reversal that will prove, when you [...
One of Fitzgerald’s very best short stories, “Winter Dreams” is considered a “Gatsby cluster story”, meaning that Fitzgerald takes the themes explored in the story and fleshes them out in The Great Gatsby. As for this story, it follows a m...
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Bl...
This 1924 short story borrows from the common plot and themes of Fitzgerald's work. In this story, George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer turned insurance salesman, fights to recapture the love of Jonquil Cary. When George receives a letter from Jonq...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as of the greatest American writers of the Twentieth century, and many scholars believe his short fiction to be every bit as important as his novels. Here are collected the master of the Jazz Age's finest short works, ...
Once considered a writer of "slick" magazine stories intended for mass consumption, F. Scott Fitzgerald is now regarded as one of the finest literary craftsmen of his, or of any other, generation. Entrenched in the milieu of the reckless 1920's, his ...
This newly discovered short story by one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald, will surprise and delight. Thank You for the Light is a masterfully crafted story -- spare, strange, and wonderful, albeit...
GATSBY GIRLSShe was an impulsive, fashionable and carefree 1920s woman who embodied the essence of the Gatsby Girl -- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda. As Fitzgerald said, "I married the heroine of my stories." All of the eight short stories conta...
The generation which numbered Bryan Dalyrimple drifted out of adolescence to a mighty fan-fare of trumpets. Bryan played the star in an affair which included a Lewis gun and a nine-day romp behind the retreating German lines, so luck triumphant or se...
By his early twenties, he has found his ideal woman as well: the exquisite -- and very rich -- Paula Legendre. On the surface, Paula would not seem to be the type of girl that would exert such a pull on Anson. Anson seems to have a lot of oats to...
O Russet Witch! is a short story by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and was first published in the "Metropolitan," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 �" December 21, 1940)...
A room in the down-stairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherma...
Tarquin of Cheapside is a short story by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and was first published in the "Smart Set" in 1921, although it had been written 5 years previous. It was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Francis Sco...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a ...
Fitzgerald seems to trivialize the Jazz phenomenon; the rebellious culture of dancing and youth which mirrored the high society of the previous generation but in its hollow hierarchy and rules of popularity. The story is entertaining despite the seem...
Four mysterious and fantastic tales from America's premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The collection includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad Pitt....
"It was an age of miracles," declared F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1920s, "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." No author is more closely associated with the decade than Fitzgerald, who christened it the "Jazz Ag...
Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionali...
This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928-29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930-31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936. The texts published here are based on surviving typ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the “Lost Generation” - ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has child...
The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgerald's short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. It tracks the lives of a married couple in New York, Evylyn and Harold Piper, throug...
John T. Unger makes a fair number of friends at boarding school, but Percy Washington is by far the strangest boy he has met. Percy invites John to stay at his house for the summer, and when John accepts, Percy boasts about his family's wealth, claim...
Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writer’s entry into short fiction, and ...
Sally Carrol is looking for a bigger life than the one she leads in her small-town home of Tarleton, Georgia. When she tells her friends about her engagement to a man from a Northern town, they are concerned that she is making a rash decision. But Sa...
Jim Powell can’t help but be defined as a “jelly-bean” -- a man who spends his life in a state of idleness. Not particularly sociable and ill at ease around women, Jim decides to dedicate his life to his work. Yet, after returning from service ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self-styled spokesman of the “Lost Generation” - ...
"I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print." F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-six when he wrote this lament to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in 1923 - two years before Scribners published The Great Gatsby. Soon after G...
The Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the ...
As the May Day Riots of 1919 are breaking out, a group of Yale alumni gather for a jazz dance, revealing the disparate backgrounds, existence, and expectations of the American upper and lower classes. The interrelated events of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ...
Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the calendar blues. But, as a friend advises, there isn't time to drift into romance, so she must instead pick out the best thing in sightand go after him hammer and tongs. Myra Meets Hi...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
"""It seems to me worth preserving a few years - at least until the ennui of changing fashions suppresses me, my books, and it together.""Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald''s second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the b...
A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles.Set in the south of Franc...
Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern b...
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria. The couple is eager to embrace a life of ease once Patch inherits his grandfa...