Tales of the Jazz Age
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, recently made into a Hollywood film…..Read More
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The Beautiful and Damned
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with… Continue Reading
The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The cut-glass bowl --,May Day --,The diamond as big as the Ritz --,The rich boy --,An alcoholic case --,The lees of happiness --,Gretchen's forty winks --,The last of the belles… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories
This Side of Paradise
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a… Continue Reading Posted in: Bildungsroman, Bildungsromans, Contemporary Christian Fiction, English Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature
The Love of the Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literary Fiction, Fiction, Movie Tie-In Fiction, Nineteen Twenties
The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no… Continue Reading
Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's initial encore - his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, the… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories
Tender Is the Night
Tender is the Night is based upon the author's unhappy marriage, and was written as he was experiencing the tragedies of his wife's nervous breakdown and his own decline. Continue Reading Posted in: Love Stories, Medicine In Literature, Moral And Ethical Aspects
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