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ISBN-100684842505

ISBN-139780684842509

eBay Product ID (ePID)371182

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Book TitleShort Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Number of Pages800 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year1998

GenreFiction

AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight40.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-121806

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Reviews"One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful." -- Jay McInerney, The New York Review of Books, "Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald." -- Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune, "More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story." -- Mark Caldwell, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition." -- Leonard A. Podis, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Edition DescriptionSpecial

Table Of ContentContents Foreword Preface Head and Shoulders Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Offshore Pirate May Day The Jelly-Bean The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar Absolution Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les "The Sensible Thing" Love in the Night The Rich Boy Jacob's Ladder A Short Trip Home The Bowl The Captured Shadow Basil and Cleopatra The Last of the Belles Majesty At Your Age The Swimmers Two Wrongs First Blood Emotional Bankruptcy The Bridal Party One Trip Abroad The Hotel Child Babylon Revisited A New Leaf A Freeze-Out Six of One -- What a Handsome Pair! Crazy Sunday More Than Just a House Afternoon of an Author Financing Finnegan The Lost Decade "Boil Some Water -- Lots of It" Last Kiss Dearly Beloved A Brief Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

SynopsisToday, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. InThe Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for theSaturday Evening Postand its sister "slicks." These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context.Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, "Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms." This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature., Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks." These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context. Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, "Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms." This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

LC Classification NumberPS3511.I9A6 1998b