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Crazy Sunday" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in the October 1932 issue of American Mercury. Fitzgerald's story is set in the brutal life of the great studios of 1930s Hollywood, with their flocks of actors, writers and directors seething with interpersonal and sexual politics. Although less than 6,400 words, it ...
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 .
"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 ]
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in Metropolitan magazine in December 1922 and collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. [1] The plot concerns the attempts by a young Midwestern man to win the affection of an upper-class socialite.
"The Cut-Glass Bowl" is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the May 1920 issue of Scribner's Magazine, [1] and included later that year in his first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers. [2]
"Head and Shoulders" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. [1] It was his first story to be published in the Saturday Evening Post, with the help of Fitzgerald's agent, Harold Ober. [2] The story appeared in the February 21, 1920 issue and was illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell. [1] It later appeared in his short story collection Flappers ...
Basil Duke Lee, who was a fictionalized version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's younger self. [3] Scott draws from his own experiences as a child and an adolescent. [4] On the hand, Josephine, was a fictional character based on real life stories of a young woman whom allegedly, Scott had been in love with in his youth. [5] In various correspondences ...
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 ...