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Called a masterpiece by Matthew J. Bruccoli, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond As Big As the Ritz," written in 1921 and published the following year in Tales of the Jazz Age, has elicited a great deal of critical interest for many reasons. Fitzgerald had married in 1920, and his daughter, and only child, was born in 1921.
About The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. The fantastical story by beloved Jazz Age writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald—a dark and gleaming fairy tale about the excesses of wealth and the promise of the American West—selected from Fitzgerald’s exuberant collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. On a summer break from his New England education, John T. Unger ...
May 11, 2021 · The diamond as big as the Ritz by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Publication date 2005 Publisher London : Penguin Collection printdisabled ...
This is a story of the Washington family as Percy sketched it for John during breakfast. The father of the present Mr. Washington had been a Virginian, a direct descendant of George Washington, and Lord Baltimore. At the close of the Civil War he was a twenty–five–year–old Colonel with a played–out plantation and about a thousand ...
Aug 1, 1995 · Diamond as Big as the Ritz Lyrics. [Verse 1] Hidden in the mountains, under the earth and stone. A cubic mile of perfection, a treasure no one has known. One man came upon this motherlode. Built ...
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. : With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret.
Braddock has two of his slaves bring a giant diamond to the top of the mountain. As the fight planes continue to bomb his estate, he holds the diamond up to the sky and attempts to bribe God. He declares that, if God just clears up this whole mess, he will build Him a giant cathedral out of the biggest diamond the world has ever seen.
