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"Babylon Revisited" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1930 and first published on February 21, 1931 in the Saturday Evening Post and free inside The Telegraph, the following Saturday. The story is set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the Jazz Age. Brief flashbacks take place ...
A short story about an American expatriate who tries to regain custody of his daughter in Paris after his drinking problem. The story explores themes of alienation, guilt, dissipation, and redemption in the context of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
Learn everything about F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Babylon Revisited, set in Paris during the Great Depression. Find plot summary, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
Learn about the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in 1930s Paris, where a former stockbroker tries to win back his daughter. Find a summary, character analysis, and quotes from the story.
A story of Charlie Wales, who returns to Paris in 1930 to reclaim his daughter after the stock market crash. He faces his past, his sister-in-law's hostility, and his own weaknesses in this short story by the author of The Great Gatsby.
A short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who tries to reconnect with his daughter in Paris after years of dissipation. Read the full plot summary, analysis, characters, themes, and historical context of this classic tale of regret and redemption.
In the glare of a brasserie a woman spoke to him. He bought her some eggs and coffee, and then, eluding her encouraging stare, gave her a twenty-franc note and took a taxi to his hotel. He woke upon a fine fall day--football weather. The depression of yesterday was gone and he liked the people on the streets.
