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A recurrent theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction is the psychic and moral gulf between the average American and wealthy elites. [363] [364] This recurrent theme is ascribable to Fitzgerald's life experiences in which he was "a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton."
Full text of the story online at The University of Virginia; Full text of the story online at Feedbooks.com; Tales of the Jazz Age at Project Gutenberg; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button public domain audiobook at LibriVox "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Collier's Magazine, May 27, 1922. Illustrations by James ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Upon publication—and somewhat belying the notion that Fitzgerald's most famous novel had not been enthusiastically received—The New York Times wrote, "The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of The Great Gatsby of last Spring. A novel so ...
The Crack-Up is a 1945 posthumous collection of essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.It includes three essays Fitzgerald originally wrote for Esquire which were first published in 1936, including the title essay, along with previously unpublished letters and notes.
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.
The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) Read "News of Paris — Fifteen Years Ago" Furioso (Winter 1947) Afternoon of an Author (1958) written in 1940 "On the Trail of Pat Hobby" Esquire (Jan 1, 1941) The Pat Hobby Stories (1962) Read "Fun in an Artist’s Studio" Esquire (Feb 1, 1941) Read "Two Old-Timers" Esquire (March 1, 1941) Read ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald. May Day was sold directly to The Smart Set before Fitzgerald had a literary agent (later Harold Ober). It is noted that Fitzgerald based some of the events on those he experienced in New York City. [5] The story is noteworthy for its length, the familiar themes of lost youth and wealth as well as two distinct yet ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy" is a short story about Anson Hunter, a very affluent young man. Anson was born rich and has always enjoyed a life of privilege, including being tutored by a British nanny in the hopes that her accent and manner of speaking might rub off...