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F. Scott Fitzgerald Bibliography
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: ''This Side of Paradise'', ''The Beautiful and Damned'', ''The Great Gatsby'' (his most famous), and ''Tender Is the Night''. A fifth, unfinished novel, ''The Last Tycoon'', was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair. Books Novels Short story collections Other books Letters Short stories 1909–1919 1920–1924 1925–1929 1930–1934 1935–1940 Posthumously Cambridge Edition Cambridge University Press published the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in annotated editions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Author Of Novels
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation. Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary criticism commenting on it, and the novelists' incorporation of their own experiences into works and characters can lead to the author's personal life and identity being associated with a novel's fictional content. For this reason, the environment within which a novelist work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taps At Reveille
''Taps at Reveille'' (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. All were timed to appear a few months to a year after each of his four completed novels were published. Contents The eighteen stories collected in ''Taps at Reveille'' are: Stories about Basil Duke Lee: * "The Scandal Detectives" * " The Freshest Boy" * "He Thinks He's Wonderful" * "The Captured Shadow" * "The Perfect Life" Stories about Josephine Perry: * "First Blood" * "A Nice Quiet Place" * "A Woman with a Past" Others * " Crazy Sunday" * "Two Wrongs" * "The Night of Chancellorsville" * "The Last of the Belles" * "Majesty" * "Family in the Wind" * "A Short Trip Home" * "One Interne" * "The Fiend" * " Babylon Revisited" Publication ''Taps at Reveille'' was published on March 10, 1935. The collection was dedicated to Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober. Reception In The New York Times '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolution (short Story)
"Absolution" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection '' All the Sad Young Men''. Publication "Absolution" was originally published in ''The American Mercury'' in June 1924. The story would later be published in Fitzgerald's third short story collection ''All the Sad Young Men'' in 1926. Background Fitzgerald began writing "Absolution" in June 1923. 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". 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". Plot overview "Absolution", narrated in the third person, focuses on a young boy named Rudolph Miller, who often fantasizes about a self-created alter ego called Blatchford Sarnemington. Rudolph, an 11-year-old Catholic, attends a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baby Party
"The Baby Party" is a short story published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in '' Hearst's International Cosmopolitan'' (February 1925). Plot The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him. Early on it is apparent this creates discord among the couple. The daughter is invited to a party, which John begrudgingly attends. After Ede injures one of the other children, he ends up in a fistfight with another father. At the close of the story, he insists his wife apologize for the mess, and he holds his daughter while she falls asleep in his arms. In the story the children have characteristics of adults while the adults act like children. ''The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald'', D Parker, 1949, The Viking Press History "The Baby Party" was written while Fitzgerald was in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Dreams
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in ''Metropolitan'' magazine in December 1922 and later collected in ''All the Sad Young Men'' in 1926. The plot concerns the attempts by a young man to win the affections of an upper-class woman. The story, frequently anthologized, is regarded as one of Fitzgerald's finest works "for poignantly portraying the loss of youthful illusions." In the Fitzgerald canon, the story is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster" as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel ''The Great Gatsby'' in 1925. Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea." Background The short story was based upon Fitzgerald's unsuccessful romantic pursuit of socialite Ginevra King. A wealthy heiress from a Chicago banking family, Ginevra enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was feted in the Chicago social scene as a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rich Boy
"The Rich Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection ''All the Sad Young Men''. "The Rich Boy" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of ''Redbook''. In the January installment, the story is described on the front cover as: "A great story of today's youth by F. Scott Fitzgerald". Plot summary 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... Background and composition Fitzgerald wrote "The Rich Boy" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of ''The Great Gatsby''. He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, during what he described as a period of "1000 parties and no work." By May 28, 1925, he wrote his literary agent, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (short Story)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in ''Collier's'' Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. It was subsequently anthologized in Fitzgerald's 1922 book ''Tales of the Jazz Age'', which is occasionally published as ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories''. The story was later adapted into the 2008 namesake film and the 2019 stage musical. Plot In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighbourhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diamond As Big As The Ritz
''The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'' is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of ''The Smart Set'' magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection ''Tales of the Jazz Age''. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915. Plot summary John T. Unger, a teenager from the Mississippi River town of Hades, is sent to a private boarding school near Boston. During the summer he visits the homes of his classmates, the majority of whom are from wealthy families. In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington is placed in Unger's dorm. He rarely speaks, and when he does, it is only to Unger. Percy invites Unger to his home for the summer, the location of which he only states as being "in the West." Unger accepts. During the train ride Percy boasts that his father is "by far the rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Fists (story)
''Flappers and Philosophers'' is the first collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either ''Saturday Evening Post'', or ''Scribner's Magazine''. Stories The stories included in the collection are: * "The Offshore Pirate" * " The Ice Palace" * " Head and Shoulders" * "The Cut-Glass Bowl" * "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" * "Benediction" * "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" * " The Four Fists" External links * ''Flappers and Philosophers'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921 (reprint). Scanned book from Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music .... * * 1920 short story collections Short story collections by F. Scott Fitzgerald {{1920s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benediction (story)
"Benediction" is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in the February 1920 issue of ''The Smart Set''. It was republished shortly thereafter in Fitzgerald's short story collection ''Flappers and Philosophers''. Plot summary A young girl, Lois, is on her way to a tryst with her lover, Howard. She stops to meet her much older brother, Kieth , who is in a seminary and about to become a priest. Lois sends a telegram upon her arrival in Baltimore. She wires Howard that she will meet him after her visit to a seminary to see her brother who is to be ordained a priest. She arrives by bus and is welcomed by Kieth who takes her on a tour of the grounds. They have not seen each other for many years. He informs her that he anticipated the meeting between them. They discuss their pasts. She informs him that she is not a devout Catholic. She tells him: "It really doesn't seem to apply anymore." Lois participates in a benediction or blessing in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in May 1920 in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. The original publication was illustrated by May Wilson Preston. The work later appeared in the September 1920 short story collection ''Flappers and Philosophers''. Fitzgerald's story follows the plight of a mixed-race Native American girl named Bernice from rural Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who visits her beautiful and sophisticated white cousin Marjorie in the city. In an attempt to be popular, Bernice announces she will bob her hair, but this announcement leads to unforeseen consequences. Decades after its publication, literary critic Orville Prescott of ''The New York Times'' hailed the work in 1951 as a landmark story "that set social standards for a generation of young Americans, that revealed secrets of popularity and gave wonderful examples of what to say at a dinner table or on the dance floor." Background The story was based on lette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cut-Glass Bowl
"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'', and included later that year in his first short story collection ''Flappers and Philosophers''. The story follows the lives of a married couple, Evylyn and Harold Piper, through various difficult or tragic events that involve a cut glass bowl they received as a wedding gift. In a copy of ''Flappers and Philosophers'' which he gave to literary critic H. L. Mencken, Fitzgerald wrote that he deemed the story to be "worth reading" in contrast to others in the volume which he dismissed as either "amusing" or "trash." Plot summary Mrs. Roger Fairboalt, an elderly gossip, visits the younger Evylyn Piper at her home. The older woman is a snoop who is curious about Mrs. Piper and her rumored affair with Freddy Gedney. They discuss the furnishings in the house, including the china. Mrs. Fairboalt focuses on a large cut-glass bowl. Evelyn expla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
