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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 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.
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 ...
The story anticipates the theme of marital discord that preoccupied Fitzgerald during the Great Depression. Literary critic John Kuehl writes: ‘The tragic marriage motif that will dominate Fitzgerald’s fiction in the 1930s and that will culmination with his novel Tender is the Night (1935) has already surfaced in “The Lees of Happiness ...
Pages in category "Short story collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
After Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, six more volumes of as yet uncollected short fiction appeared: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951), Afternoon of an Author (1957), The Pat Hobby Stories (1962), The Apprenticeship Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965), The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973), and Bits of Paradise (1974). [10] [11] [12]
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, [1] 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 .
Fitzgerald opens the essay by positing that the historical era known as Jazz Age began in the spring of 1919. [23] In contrast to social conservatives and isolationist politicians who insisted that World War I spawned the Jazz Age, [6] Fitzgerald instead pinpoints the 1919 May Day Riots as the actual starting point when young Americans read newspaper accounts of how mounted police officers ...