Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Twentieth Century Classics) [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140182888
• ISBN-13: 978-0140182880
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,416,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the major American writers of the twentieth century -- a figure whose life and works embodied powerful myths about our national dreams and aspirations. Fitzgerald was talented and perceptive, gifted with a lyrical style and a pitch-perfect ear for language. He lived his life as a romantic, equally capable of great dedication to his craft and reckless squandering of his artistic capital. He left us one sure masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; a near-masterpiece, Tender Is the Night; and a gathering of stories and essays that together capture the essence of the American experience. His writings are insightful and stylistically brilliant; today he is admired both as a social chronicler and a remarkably gifted artist.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Contents: (More than I expected), May 10, 2011

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Stephen L. Powell (McDonough, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Penguin Hardback Classics) (Hardcover)

From the title you might expect this book to have the 8 short storied from the 1920 book titled Flappers and Philosophers. Well you'd be wrong. This has selections from that book and many more short stories. I've listed the contents below.

I. From Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Icy Palace
The Jelly-Bean
The Cut-Glass Bowl
May Day
The Lees of Happiness
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

II. From All the Sad Young Men (1926) and Taps at Reveille (1935)
Winter Dreams
Absolution
Gretchen's Forty Winks
'The Sensible Thing'
The Baby Party
The Rich Boy
A Short Trip Home
Magnetism
Basil: The Freshest Boy
Josephine: A Woman with a Past
The Last of the Belles
The Rough Crossing
Two Wrongs
The Bridal Party
Babylon Revisited
Crazy Sunday

III. Uncollected Stories (1937-40)
Pat Hobby's Cristmas Wish
A Man on the Way
'Boil some Water - Lots of It'
Teamed with Genius
Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
Pat Hobby's Secret
Pat Hobby, Putative Father
The Homes of the Stars
Pat Hobby Does His Bit
Pat Hobby's Preview
No Harm Trying
On the Trail of Pat Hobby
Pat Hobby's College Days
A Patriotic Short
Fun in an Artist's Studio
Two Old-Timers
Mightier than the Sword
An Alcoholic Case
Three Hours between Planes
Financing Finnegan
The Lost Decade

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Coralie Bickford-Smith cover art, March 6, 2011

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Sara Burton (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Penguin Hardback Classics) (Hardcover)

I purchased all six of these books from the Canadian Amazon website (amazon.ca) several weeks ago because I couldn't bear to wait any longer for them to show up on the American site.

The covers are just gorgeous. The art is metallic and beautiful and the covers have a soft feel to them. The inside flap of the cover is perforated and is designed to be removed and used as a matching bookmark.

The cover art for this set of F. Scott Fitzgerald books was designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith - the genius behind the similarly beautiful Penguin cloth-bound classics series. Not only is the literature itself classic, but the books look like a classic collector's item as well! Friends compliment me on them all the time when they see them on my bookcase!