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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originally wrote for Esquire which were first published in 1936, including the title essay, along with previously unpublished letters and notes.
A recurrent theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction is the psychic and moral gulf between the average American and wealthy elites. [362] [363] 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."
"The Offshore Pirate" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. [1] It is one of eight short stories included in Fitzgerald's first published collection, Flappers and Philosophers. [2]
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. [1] Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipation" while partying to excess at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Taps at Reveille is a collection of 18 short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1935. [1] It was the fourth and final volume of previously uncollected short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. [2]
The Chicago Tribune paid $750 for the story and featured it in the “Blue Ribbon Fiction” section of the December 12, 1920 Sunday edition. [3] In the annotated table of contents which Fitzgerald introduces the stories collected in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), he placed “The Lees of Happiness” under the category “Unclassified Masterpieces”:
The book is more like a magazine than a collection of stories by one man, arranged by an editor to suit all tastes and meant to be thrown away after reading." [13] Hawthorne closes with an upbeat assessment of Fitzgerald's potential as a fiction writer: "These stories are announced as beginning in the writer's second manner.