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

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Publisher's Synopsis

Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity.

Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.

Book information

ISBN: 9781847493460
Publisher: Alma Books COMMIS
Imprint: Alma Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 214
Weight: 222g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 17mm