Selected Short Stories

Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society.

Selected Short Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald is a superb collection of stories that symbolize the Jazz Age (a term he coined himself) of the 1920s. He wrote more than 43 stories, some of which were adapted successfully for film, stage and television. His eternal appeal to every generation of youthful readers has been one of being able to relate to the universal problems of young people everywhere in the world – the problems of identity, the pursuit of happiness, the gradual dawning of responsibility and despair. Fitzgerald's own colorful personal life, his problems with alcoholism and romantic relationships added to his mystique.

CONTENTS

The diamond as big as the Ritz
The ice palace
The rich boy
A Night at the fair
Outside the cabinet-maker's
The Swimmers
Ten years in the advertising business
The last of the belles
First blood
The bridal party
Babylon revisited
Family in the wind
The Fiend
"Boil some water - lots of it"
Fun in an artist's studio
Two old-timers
News of Paris - fifteen years ago
Dearly beloved