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When the title story appeared in Fitzgerald's final collection, 1935's Taps at Reveille, The New York Times wrote "'Babylon Revisited', which seems oddly linked in spirit to Mr. Fitzgerald's latest novel, Tender is the Night, is probably the most mature and substantial story in the book.
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.
It was instead met with lukewarm sales and mixed reviews. [53] One book review in The New York Times by critic J. Donald Adams was particularly harsh: "Bad news is best blurted out at once: Tender Is the Night is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging qualities, it makes his weaknesses appear ineradicable, for ...
In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald stated that it was originally intended to be the prologue of his later novel The Great Gatsby, but that it "interrupted with the neatness of the plan". [4] In 1934, Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to a fan that the story was intended to show Gatsby's early life, but was cut to preserve his "sense of mystery".
"A Book of Last Things" The New York Times, March 4, 1979. A Book of Last Things Retrieved 19 January 2024. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 1979. The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Matthew J. Bruccoli, editor. Harcourt Brace & Company, MJF Books, New York. ISBN 1-56731-106-7; Kirkus Reviews. 1978. THE PRICE WAS HIGH ...
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 .
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 ...
A middle-aged F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1937. In The New York Times, critic Edith Walton gave Fitzgerald's final collection a mixed reception. [4] " The characteristic seal of his brilliance stamps the entire book, but it is a brilliance which splutters off too frequently into mere razzle-dazzle."