Flappers and Philosophers
Stories
Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writer’s entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Ice Palace,” “Head and Shoulders,” and “The Offshore Pirate.” In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down…
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September 8, 2009F. Scott Fitzgerald was considered the quintessential author of the Jazz Age. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald attended Princeton University, where he began to write seriously. After joining the U.S. Army in 1917, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, whom he later married. In 1920, Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, transformed Fitzgerald overnight into a literary sensation. The Great Gatsby followed in 1925, although it was not as popular at the time as his second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack. He was forty-four years old.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Min Jin Lee; Edited with Notes by Philip McGowan; Suggestions for Further Exploration by Jennifer Buehler
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Babylon Revisited
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Min Jin Lee; Edited with Notes by Philip McGowan
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Introduction by Min Jin Lee; Edited with Notes by Philip McGowan; Suggestions for Further Exploration by Jennifer Buehler
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Parties
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
The Best of Lupin
Maurice Leblanc
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Sunset Gun
Dorothy Parker
The Scarlet Letter
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The Awakening and Selected Stories
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Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway