F. Scott Fitzgerald Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. This Side of Paradise (1920)
  2. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922)
  3. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
  4. The Great Gatsby (1926)
  5. Tender Is the Night (1934)
  6. The Last Tycoon (1941)
  7. Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (2000)
  8. The Popular Girl (2006)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)
  2. May Day (1920)
  3. The Ice Palace (1920)
  4. The Offshore Pirate (1920)
  5. Head and Shoulders (1920)
  6. The Lees of Happiness (1920)
  7. The Jelly-Bean (1920)
  8. The Camel’s Back (1920)
  9. Benediction (1920)
  10. Myra Meets His Family (1920)
  11. Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink (1920)
  12. The Four Fists (1920)
  13. Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside (1921)
  14. Winter Dreams (1922)
  15. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)
  16. The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1924)
  17. Gretchen’s Forty Winks (1924)
  18. Love in the Night (1925)
  19. The Rich Boy (1926)
  20. Magnetism (1928)
  21. The Night at Chancellorsville (1935)
  22. Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (2018)
  23. Basil the Freshest Boy (2018)
  24. What a Handsome Pair ! (2018)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul Plays 1911-14 (1914)
  2. The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 (1917)
  3. Spires and Gargoyles (1919)
  4. The Short Stories (1920)
  5. Flappers and Philosophers (1920)
  6. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
  7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories (1921)
  8. Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
  9. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories (1922)
  10. Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
  11. The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1924)
  12. All the Sad Young Men (1926)
  13. The Basil and Josephine Stories (1928)
  14. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1931)
  15. The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1931)
  16. The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1935)
  17. Taps at Reveille (1935)
  18. Poems 1911-1940 (1940)
  19. The Pat Hobby Stories (1940)
  20. The Lost Decade and other stories (1968)
  21. The Price Was High (1979)
  22. Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1983)
  23. Afternoon of an Author (1987)
  24. Before Gatsby (2001)
  25. On Booze (2011)
  26. Gatsby Girls (2013)
  27. The Love Boat and Other Stories (2015)
  28. Mystery & Fantasy Stories (2015)
  29. I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories (2017)
  30. The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories (2019)
  31. All of the Belles (2020)
  32. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Crack-Up (1936)
  2. As ever, Scott Fitz (1940)
  3. Dear Scott/Dear Max (1971)
  4. The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1978)
  5. A Life in Letters (1980)
  6. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda (1985)
  7. The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1995)
  8. On Authorship (1996)
  9. Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003)
  10. A Short Autobiography (2011)
  11. Dreams of Youth (2011)
  12. The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books In Publication Order

  1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:) (1940)
  2. Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:) (1957)
  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Bloch,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer) (1957)
  4. 12 Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Arthur) (1957)
  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night (By:Robert Arthur) (1961)
  6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] (By:) (1962)
  7. Alfred Hitchcock’s A Hangman’s Dozen (By:Donald E Westlake,,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,,,,,,Richard Stark) (1962)
  8. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (With: Shirley Jackson,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson) (1963)
  9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (By:Ellis Peters,Dorothy L Sayers,,,Ray Bradbury,,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,Michael Gilbert,,,Carter Dickson,,Julian May,,,,,,,,Margot Bennett) (1965)
  10. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery (By:) (1970)
  11. Down by the Old Blood Stream (By:) (1971)
  12. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:) (1979)
  13. Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 (By:) (1982)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992)
  2. The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Books Overview

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. If the Roaring Twenties are remembered as the era of flaming youth, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best seller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post war America. It traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York City. Alternately self confident and self effacing, torn between ambition and idleness, the self absorbed, immature Amory yearns to run with Princeton’s rich, fast crowd and become one of the gods of the campus. Hopelessly romantic, he learns about love and sex from a series of beautiful young flappers, women who leave him both exhilarated and devastated. Fitzgerald describes it all in intensely lyrical prose that fills the novel with a heartbreaking sense of longing, as Amory comes to understand that the sweet scented springtime of his life is fragile and fleeting, disappearing into memory even as he reaches for it. Sharon G. Carson is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Kent State University, where she has taught for thirty five years. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on modern and contemporary fiction.

The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. In 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty five and heralded as the most promising writer of his generation, owing to the success of his first novel This Side of Paradise. Recently married to the girl of his dreams, the former Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald built upon his sudden prosperity with The Beautiful and the Damned, a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent set amid the glitter of Jazz Age New York. The novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, a Harvard educated, aspiring writer, and his beautiful young wife, Gloria. While they wait for Anthony’s grandfather to die and pass his millions on to them, the young couple enjoys an endless string of parties, traveling, and extravagance. Beginning with the pop and fizz of life itself, The Beautiful and the Damned quickly evolves into a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic society in which beauty is all too fleeting.A fierce parable about the illusory quality of dreams, the intractable nature of reality, and the ruin wrought by time, The Beautiful and the Damned eerily anticipates the dissipation and decline that would come to the Fitzgeralds themselves before the decade had run its course. Pagan Harleman studied literature at Columbia College, then traveled extensively in the Middle East and West Africa before receiving an MFA from New York University s graduate film program. While at NYU she made several award winning shorts and received the Dean s Fellowship, the Steven Tisch Fellowship, and a Director s Craft Award.

The Great Gatsby

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ third book, The Great Gatsby 1925, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the ‘first step’ American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised ‘the charm and beauty of the writing,’ as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s ‘best work’ thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, ‘gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,’ it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth century literature. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of The Great Gatsby, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and authorized by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of The Great Gatsby contained many errors resulting from Fitzgerald’s extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule, and subsequent editions introduced further departures from the author’s intentions. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald’s later revisions and corrections, to restore the text to its original form. It is The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.

Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend’s copy of Tender Is the Night, ‘If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God’s sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith.’ Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture. Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald’s novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife’s derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver’s downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald’s own fate. F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the novel’s lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen as perhaps its author’s most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan’s words, it raised him to the heights of ‘a modern Orpheus.’

The Last Tycoon

Cecilia Brady, the daughter of a great motion picture producer, reminisces about events that began five years earlier when she was an undergraduate at Bennington College, starting with a flight home to Hollywood on a plane whose other passengers included Wylie White, a script writer down on his luck, Manny Schwartz, once an influential producer, and Monroe Stahr, another producer and partner of Cecilia’s father, Pat Brady. Cecilia is attracted to Stahr, and he turns to her at the very time that he has a falling out with her father. Each of the partners conceives the idea of murdering the other. On the way to New York to establish an alibi, Stahr repents and decides to revoke his orders that will result in Brady’s death, but his plane crashes before he can carry out his new plan and Cecilia loses both her father and the man she loves. Even in its incomplete form, The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western has achieved a reputation as the best Hollywood novel. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the ‘unfinished novel’ was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years this edition has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilizes Fitzgerald’s manuscript drafts, revised typescripts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work. This volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; facsimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald’s plan for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s incomplete masterpiece is restored to its 1940 state, and thus made fully accessible for the first time.

Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

This is the first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner’s, who had the novel set in type and sent the galleys to Fitzgerald in France. Fitzgerald then virtually rewrote the novel in galleys, producing the book we know as The Great Gatsby. This first version, Trimalchio, has never been published and has only been read by a handful of people. It is markedly different from The Great Gatsby: two chapters were completely rewritten for the published novel, and the rest of the book was heavily revised. Characterization is different, the narrative voice of Nick Carraway is altered and, most importantly, the revelation of Jay Gatsby’s past is handled in a wholly different way. James L.W. West III directs the Penn State Center for the History of the Book and is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is the author of William Styron: A Descriptive Biography Random House, 1998.

Head and Shoulders

‘I don’t care for this,’ he said as if he were talking to himself ‘at all. Not that I mind your being here I don’t. You’re quite a pretty little thing, but I don’t like Charlie Moon’s sending you up here. Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way? Do I look like the pictures of the little Boston boy in the comic magazines? Has that callow ass, Moon, with his eternal tales about his week in Paris, any right to.

The Lees of Happiness

The Lees of Happiness is a classic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story can also be found in the Tales of the Jazz Age collection, ISBN 978 1 60355 099 4.

The Jelly-Bean

She stepped daintily out of the gasolene and began scraping her slippers, side and bottom, on the running board of the automobile. The Jelly bean contained himself no longer. He bent double with explosive laughter and after a second she joined in.

Benediction

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 1896 1940 was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was the self styled spokesman of the Lost Generation Americans born in the 1890’s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories. The 1920 s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald s development. His debut novel, This Side of Paradise 1920 examines the lives and morality of post World War I youth. Flappers and Philosophers 1920 was his first collection of short stories. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned 1922, demonstrates an evolution and maturity in his writing, and provides an excellent portrait of America during the Jazz Age, as does Tales of the Jazz Age 1922. The Great Gatsby, which many consider his masterpiece, was published in 1925. It has since been adapted for the theatre and filmed several times. His last novel was Tender is the Night 1934.

Myra Meets His Family

She had lain there an hour perhaps when she was startled from a slow reverie by a sharp cry which seemed to proceed from the adjoining room. She sat up in bed and listened, and in a minute it was repeated. It sounded exactly like the plaint of a weary child stopped summarily by the placing of a hand over its mouth. In the dark silence her bewilderment shaded gradually off into uneasiness. She waited for the cry to recur, but straining her ears she heard only the intense crowded stillness of three o’clock. She wondered where Knowleton slept, remembered that his bedroom was over in the other wing just beyond his mother’s.

The Four Fists

The Four Fists is a classic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story can also be found in the Flappers & Philosophers collection, ISBN 978 1 60355 122 0.

Winter Dreams

There was all the ecstasy of an engagement about it, sharpened by his realization that there was no engagement. It was during those three days that, for the first time, he had asked her to marry him. She said ‘maybe some day,’ she said ‘kiss me,’ she said ‘I’d like to marry you,’ she said ‘I love you’ she said nothing.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America’s most gifted story writers. ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

The Rich Boy

Undisputed king of jazz age writing, F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly encapsulated all the glamour and despair of 1920s’ society. These three short stories are supreme examples of his craft. With wealth and privileges beyond measure, ‘rich boy’ Anson Hunter had every reason to expect life to be a breeze. Yet one by one his dreams fade away, leaving him with nothing. Slowly, painfully he realises that beneath the sparkle and fizz of his glittering life lies only failure and disillusionment the self same emptiness that pervades the beautiful people of The Last of the Belles and The Bridal Party.

Spires and Gargoyles

F. Scott Fitzgerald had a busy and productive literary apprenticeship, writing in a great variety of genres. This volume contains his writings for the student magazine at his high schools and his Princeton writings for the Daily Princetonian, the Princeton Tiger, and the Nassau Literary Magazine. Of special note in this volume are the complete lyrics that Fitzgerald composed for three student musical comedies mounted by the Triangle Club at Princeton Fie! Fie! Fi Fi! 1914, The Evil Eye 1915, and Safety First! 1916. The volume includes a scholarly introduction, a record of variants and emendations, and numerous facsimiles and other illustrations. Explanatory notes identify the literary works, Broadway shows, movie queens, stage stars, politicians, historical figures, criminals, sports heroes, and popular songs referred to by Fitzgerald in these early writings.

The Short Stories

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America’s most gifted and best paid writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country’s premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompas*ses the full scope of Fitzgerald’s short fiction. The forty three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author’s fabled crack up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as ‘The Rich Boy,’ ‘May Day,’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,’ as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister ‘slicks.’ These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer’s career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context. Together, these forty three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, ‘Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms.’ This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.

Flappers and Philosophers

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HEAD AND SHOULDERS In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A excellent in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry. Two years later, while George M. Cohan was composing ‘Over There,’ Horace was leading the sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on ‘The Syllogism as an Obsolete Scholastic Form,’ and during the battle of Chateau Thierry he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his seventeenth birthday before beginning his series of essays on ‘The Pragmatic Bias of the New Realists.’ After a while some newsboy told him that the war was over, and he was glad, because it meant that Peat Brothers, publishers, would get out their new edition of ‘Spinoza’s Improvement of the Understanding.’ Wars were all very well in their way, made young men self reliant or something, but Horace felt that he could never forgive the President for allowing a brass band to play under his window on the night of the false armistice, causing him to leave three important sentences out of his thesis on ‘German Idealism.’ The next year he went up to Yale to take his degree as Master of Arts. He was seventeen then, tall and slender, with near sighted gray eyes and an air of keeping himself utterly detached from the mere words he let drop. ‘I never feel as though I’m talking to him,’ expostulated Professor Dillinger to a sympathetic colleague. ‘He makes me feel as though I were talking to his representative. I always expect him to say: ‘Well, I’ll ask myself and find out.” And then, just as nonchalantly as though Horace Tarbox had been Mr. Beef the butcher or Mr. Hat the haberdasher, life reach…

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America’s most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half century after the author’s death, the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli, has assembled in one volume the full scope of Fitzgerald’s best short fiction: forty three sparkling masterpieces, ranging from such classic novellas as ‘The Rich Boy,’ ‘May Day,’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ to his commercial work for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister ‘slicks.’ For the reader, these stories will underscore the depth and extraordinary range of Fitzgerald’s literary talents. Furthermore, Professor Bruccoli’s illuminating preface and introductory headnotes establish the literary and biographical settings in which these stories now shine anew with brighter luster than ever.

Tales of the Jazz Age

Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period’s most popular magazines. His second short fiction collection, Tales of the Jazz Age 1922, includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. One, ‘May Day,’ depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldiers and an affluent group of young people start an anti Bolshevik demonstration that results in an attack on a leftist newspaper office. ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is a fantastic satire of the selfishness endemic to the wealthy and their undying pursuit to preserve that way of life. All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald’s fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. With his discerning eye, Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post World War I America who, cut off from traditions, sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz. This new edition reproduces in full the original collection, stories that represent a clear movement in theme and character development toward what would become The Great Gatsby. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history, revealing decisions about which stories to include.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler’s most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers 1920 and Tales of the Jazz Age 1922. This inexpensive volume comprises ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,’ ‘The Ice Palace,’ ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair,’ ‘May Day,’ ‘The Jelly Bean,’ and ‘The Offshore Pirate.’ Publisher s Note.

The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction Head and Shoulders Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Offshore Pirate May Day The Jelly Bean The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper’s historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgerald s many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.

All the Sad Young Men

Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald’s autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes in the Cambridge Edition, provides accurate texts based on Fitzgerald’s surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Words and passages cut by magazine editors have been restored to several of the essays. A textual apparatus has been included, along with full explanatory notes identifying people, places, books, historical events, and other details.

The Basil and Josephine Stories

Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volumeIn 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the Saturday Evening Post about his life from the time he was an eleven year old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with Tender Is the Night still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories also published in the Post that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil’s female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here, The Basil and Josephine Stories brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald’s most charming and evocative works.

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author’s finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York and Paris, Fitzgerald brings the society of the ‘Lost Generation’ to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers.

The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F Scott Fitzgerald’s St Paul is a city of winter dreams and ice palaces, lakeside parties and neighbourhood hijinks. These are stories of ambition and young love, insecurity and awkwardness, where a poor boy with energy and intelligence can break into the upper clas*ses and become a glittering success. This selection brings together the best of Fitzgerald’s St Paul stories some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction. Patricia Hampl’s incisive introduction traces the trajectory of Fitzgerald’s blazing celebrity and its connections to his life in the city that gave him his best material. Headnotes by Dave Page provide specific ties between the stories and Fitzgerald’s life in St Paul.

The Pat Hobby Stories

A fascinating study in self satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott FitzgeraldThe setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down and out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. ‘This was not art’ Pat Hobby often said, ‘this was an industry’ where whom ‘you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office.’The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald’s ‘last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories.’

Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Known today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines. With stories like The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, and The Jelly Bean, he portrayed the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.

Before Gatsby

FOR THE FIRST TIME, all the commercially published short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before and during his work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby, have been collected in one volume. Published between 1919 and 1923, these twenty-six stories – most of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and in two Fitzgerald volumes, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age – document the striking development of Fitzgerald’s professionalism and short-story craftsmanship during his twenties. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost expert on Fitzgerald, the annotated and generously illustrated collection reproduces magazine artwork, manuscripts, advertiseme*nts, and photographs that provide a rich contextual backdrop for understanding the ways American life shaped Fitzgerald’s fiction.

The Crack-Up

Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period’s most popular magazines. His second short fiction collection, Tales of the Jazz Age 1922, includes two masterpieces as well as several other stories from his earlier career. One, ‘May Day,’ depicts a party at a popular club in New York that becomes a night of revelry during which former soldiers and an affluent group of young people start an anti Bolshevik demonstration that results in an attack on a leftist newspaper office. ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is a fantastic satire of the selfishness endemic to the wealthy and their undying pursuit to preserve that way of life. All of these stories, like his best novels, meld Fitzgerald’s fascination with wealth with an awareness of a larger world, creating a subtle social critique. With his discerning eye, Fitzgerald elucidates the interactions of the young people of post World War I America who, cut off from traditions, sought their place in the modern world amid the general hysteria of the period that inaugurated the age of jazz. This new edition reproduces in full the original collection, stories that represent a clear movement in theme and character development toward what would become The Great Gatsby. In introducing each story, Fitzgerald offers accounts of its textual history, revealing decisions about which stories to include.

A Life in Letters

A vibrant self portrait of an artist whose work was his life.

In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America’s most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald’s letters many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote.

While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald’s legendary ‘jazz age’ social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald’s literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult relationship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood.

For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art.

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs and lows and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s devotion to each other endured for more than twenty two years. Now, for the first time, the story of the love of these two glamorous and hugely talented writers can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds’ marriage, the 333 letters three quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print have been edited by the noted Fitzgerald scholars, Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. They are illustrated throughout with a generous selection of familiar and unpublished photographs.

On Authorship

‘F. Scott Fitzgerald On Authorship‘ assembles Fitzgerald’s public and private writings on his trade and craft. The 46 selections in this volume construct an autobiographical account of Fiztgerald’s 20 year endeavour to maintain careers as a commercial writer and as a literary artist. In a substantial introduction to the volume, Matthew J. Bruccoli positions Fitzgerald as a case history for the profession of authorship approach to American literary history as formulated by William Charvat. Bruccoli challenges familiar myths about Fitzgerald’s squandering of fortunes and literary genius, and he exposes the error of segregating Fitzgerald’s magazine and movie work from his novels. In his own words, Fitzgerald corrects the most condescending and irksome notion about him that he was a literary ignoramous who wrote brilliantly without knowing what he was doing. As these letters, notebook entries, book reviews and articles indicate, Fitzgerald reached usable conclusions about the craft of writing, the discipline of authorship and the obligations of literature.

Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald

Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald assembles over thirty interviews with one of America’s greatest novelists, the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Although most of these are not standard interviews in the modern sense, the quotes from Fitzgerald and the contemporary journalistic reaction to him reveal much about his writing techniques, artistic wisdom, and life. Editor Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost Fitzgerald scholar, and Judith S. Baughman have collected the most usable and articulate pieces on Fitzgerald, including a three part 1922 interview conducted for the St. Paul Daily News. Fitzgerald 1896 1940 died before the authorial interview became a literary subgenre after World War II. Although Fitzgerald enjoyed his celebrity, as is clear in these pieces, he had a poor sense of public relations and provided interviewers with opportunities to trivialize him. As a result, Fitzgerald was often treated condescendingly in the press. Seven of his interviews five printed before 1924 have flapper in their headlines. In the Jazz Age a term Fitzgerald coined he was regarded as a spokesman for rebellious youth, as a playboy, as an authority on sex and marriage, as an expert on Prohibition, and as an immensely popular writer for his work published in the Saturday Evening Post. Yet his literary ambitions were sizable and his impact on American fiction immeasurable.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Bloch,,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

‘How ironic,’ Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, ‘that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies.’ Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? ‘Isn’t the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected?’

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six tales that combines classic works with many ‘different, unexpected’ gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can’t be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ and Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.’ But alongside these classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain’s ‘Cannibalism in the Cars,’ a story that reveals a darker side to his humor ‘That morning we had Morgan of Alabama for breakfast. He was one of the finest men I ever sat down to…
a perfect gentleman, and singularly juicy’. From Melville come the juxtaposed tales ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,’ of which Oates says, ‘Only Melville could have fashioned out of ‘real’ events…
such harrowing and dreamlike allegorical fiction.’ From Flannery O’Connor we find ‘A Late Encounter With the Enemy,’ and from John Cheever, ‘The Death of Justina,’ one of Cheever’s own favorites, though rarely anthologized. The reader will also delight in the range of authors found here, from Charles W. Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Sarah Orne Jewett, to William Carlos Williams, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Contemporary artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O’Brien, Louise Erdrich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work, plus a long introductory essay, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master.

This then is a book of surprises, a fascinating portrait of American short fiction, as filtered through the sensibility of a major modern writer.

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