Taps at Reveille
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficul….Read More
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