Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN-13: 9780141194103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 672 str.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, The Lost Decade, written in Fitzgerald's last years.

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.