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Jun 1, 2021 · 1. Tender is the Night. Its title taken from John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, Tender is the Night (1934) is Fitzgerald’s best-known and most widely read novel after The Great Gatsby (see below). Fitzgerald actually considered Tender is the Night to be his greatest novel.
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow in chronological order of publication.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
- 1989
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age —a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age .
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May 7, 2024 · F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925).
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to parents Edward and Mary (“Mollie”) McQuillan Fitzgerald. No...
- F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920. Scott and Zelda had a tumultuous relationship, characterized by excessive drinking, party...
- Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald conveyed in The Great Gat...
- Fitzgerald struggled with alcoholism throughout his life. It’s likely that his heavy drinking contributed to his early death: Fitzgerald died of a...
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair
- The Ice Palace
- The Offshore Pirate
- May Day
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Winter Dreams
- The Diamond as Big as The Ritz
- Hot and Cold Blood
- Babylon Revisited
- The Lost Decade
A scathing satire on the cruel gatekeeping of privileged young American women, Bernice Bobs Her Hair centres on a young woman who cuts her hair to make herself more popular amongst men. Bernice’s hair represents changing attitudes towards femininity during the flapper era, which prized more ‘boyish’ figures and haircuts, rather than the more tradit...
The Ice Palace is based upon a real ice palace that appeared at the 1887 Winter Carnival in St Paul, Minnesota, where Fitzgerald was born. Regarded as one of Fitzgerald’s most overtly modernist works, the novel follows Sally Happer, a young woman from Georgia, who travels north to meet her fiancé’s family. While in the ice palace, Happer has an epi...
The Offshore Piraterevolves around a wealthy young woman called Ardita’s adventure with pirates. She is described as being excited about having an adventure, because her view on life is otherwise very negative. Ardita’s affections are competed for by the pirates, mirroring Fitzgerald’s own perceived unworthiness when vying for the hand of his futur...
May Day is partly based on some events that Fitzgerald experienced in New York City. The story features themes of lost youth, wealth and two distinct but interrelated plots that the author revisited numerous times throughout his career. Set on 1 May 1919, the day on which violent protests in favour of ‘lower class’ rights took place, the short stor...
Probably Fitzgerald’s most famous short story, since it was adapted for the big screen in 2008 by David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the story of the titular character who is born in 1869 as a 70-year-old man and then ages backwards until he dies as a baby. He is the ultimate outsider, living life in an alternate and opposite ...
Winter Dreams is widely considered to be one of Fitzgerald’s finest works. The themes of loss and youthful illusions are largely modelled on the author’s own life, because of his own inability to seduce socialite Ginevra King, who later became the basis for the character Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. The story follows a young man from Minneso...
The Diamond as Big as the Ritzparodies the staggering wealth amassed by barons such as John D. Rockefeller in 1920s America. It tells the fantastical story of a man called Braddock Washington who lives on a mountain-sized diamond in the Montana Rockies, that is indeed bigger than the Ritz hotel. The irony is that Washington’s net worth is far from ...
Married couple Jim and Jaqueline Mathers have saved all of their money for the imminent birth of their child. However, Jim is a generous man who always aims to support those in need; he cares for friends and strangers alike, lends money without a second thought and fails to put his family first. Jim finally listens to his wife’s implorations that h...
Unlike Fitzgerald’s works which depict the Jazz Age of the 1920s, this short story examines the fallout of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, though does indeed contain flashbacks to the hedonistic years from earlier in the decade. The story follows Charlie Wales, a man haunted by his past mistakes since his extravagance cost him and his family their savi...
One of Fitzgerald’s shortest works, The Lost Decadeexamines the effects of drink and how it leads people to forget their surroundings, become isolated from reality and lose touch with themselves. Published just one year before Fitzgerald died, the short story largely parallels the author’s own struggle with alcoholism as well as his feelings of soc...
The definite collection of Fitzgerald's short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The anthology contains all of Fitzgerald's most important short stories: "The Ice Palace", "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Babylon Revisited" and "Crazy Sunday".
The Short Stories. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor) 4.23. 14,671 ratings378 reviews. 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.
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