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This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later.
First published in 1920, this book marked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story. This is the only edition available containing the complete original collection of all eight classic stories including, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "Benediciton." This short story collection plumbs the depths of human feeling with a perspicacity that is quintessential Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald's second novel takes a finely wrought, often satirical look at the dark side of the glittering Jazz Age. Fueled by alcohol, Anthony Patch and his vibrant, beautiful wife thrive on the excitement and thrills of New York nightlife in the '20s--squandering their money, wasting their talents, and descending into moral, as well as financial, bankruptcy.
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
First published in 1934, Fitzgerald's classic story of psychological disintegration was denounced by many as an unflattering portrayal of Sara and Gerald Murphy (in the guise of characters Dick and Nicole Driver), who had been generous hosts to many expatriates. Only after Fitzgerald's death was Tender Is the Night recognized as a powerful and moving depiction of the human frailties that affect privileged and ordinary people alike.
Even in its incomplete form, The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western has achieved a reputation as the best Hollywood novel. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the "unfinished novel" was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years that edition, which disguises the state of Fitzgerald's work in progress, has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilizes Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescripts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the brilliant work in progress. The volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; an explanation of editorial principles; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; facsimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's intentions for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful. F. Scott Fitzgerald's incomplete masterpiece is accurately restored to its 1940 state (with editorial emendation of non-functional errors) and thus made fully accessible to a cross-section of readers. The Crack Up, paperback, $9.56...you save $2.39 This book was originally published in 1945, reprinting articles Fitzgerald had written for Esquire magazine in the late 1930's in which he described himself as emotionally bankrupt. It was a bankruptcy stemming from, as Fitzgerald put it, "mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt." Unlike today when public confession of some weakness or another is considered almost a rite of passage, in the late 1930's admitting personal flaws was frowned upon. This series of essays, although interesting and frank, hurt Fitzgerald's publishing chances at a time when he was desperate for money. His career would never recover.
A collection of Fitzgerald's short stories incorporates his own revisions and manuscript notes, spans his entire career, and includes ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"" soon to be a major motion picture.
Acerbically humorous stories, written between 1939 and 1940 and originally published in Esquire magazine, offer a stark portrait of Hollywood as the author experienced it during the ""golden era"" of the film industry in the late 1930's.
From Kirkus Reviews , April
15, 1994 An anthology of fourteen interconnected short stories based on Fitzgerald's own boyhood experiences growing up in the decade prior to World War I features such tales as "The Scandal Detectives," "The Freshest Boy," "Emotional Bankruptcy," and "A Woman with a Past."
Providing a dramatic portrait of American manners and mores during the 1920s and 1930s, a collection of ten stories probes the false security of wealth, the emotional sterility fostered by technology, and the fragile nature of human existence. This volume includes "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and "Rich Boy," two of Fitzgerald's finest stories.
Fitzgerald was best-known during his lifetime as a short story writer. These stories, which first appeared in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Smart Set, testify to the wit, imagination, and enduring emotional power of his work. Other Fitzgerald Related Books
Many writers profited from Maxwell Perkins's ministrations. Most famously, the saintly editor hacked almost 300 pages out of Look Homeward, Angel, reducing Thomas Wolfe's debut to a (relatively) readable form. F. Scott Fitzgerald's work required much less in the way of major surgery. Yet as these letters reveal, the novelist and his editor had a highly productive correspondence, allowing Fitzgerald to bounce big-picture ideas off Perkins and exchange reams of literary gossip. Fitzgerald tends toward the earnest and apologetic: "If I ever win the right to any liesure [sic] again I will assuredly not waste it as I wasted this past time. Please believe me when I say that now I'm doing the best I can." And Perkins tends toward the downright prescient: "At any rate, one thing I think, we can be sure of: that when the tumult and shouting of the rabble of reviewers and gossipers dies, 'The Great Gatsby' will stand out as a very extraordinary book." F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Princeton Years Selected Writings, 1914-1920, paperback, $15.96...you save $3.99 From the Publisher... Collections of early writings of famous writers can often be dreary affairs, but F. Scott Fitzgerald's early work abounds with life. Because he served such an unusually short apprenticeship he wrote his first, highly successful book, This Side of Paradise, soon after graduating Princeton...his undergraduate work is of special interest. In fact, his college and professional writing careers overlapped. Both This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers incorporated (with some reworking) some of the early Princeton stories gathered in this volume. In this first complete and chronologically sequenced collection of Fitzgerald's writings for two Princeton publications, The Tiger and Nassau Lit, we can witness Fitzgerald's dramatic growth. We can almost hear him find his voice as a writer. Opportunities to trace the development of style of so significant a writer are rare. These early works of his provide a mirror to his times. His words and the often whimsical sampling! Fitzgerald stands at center stage throughout this book, but some of the "supporting characters" are notable figures in their own rights. Two of Fitzgerald's closes Princeton friends also opted for writing careers: author/poet John Peale Bishop and Edmund "Bunny" Wilson, who was Fitzgerald's editor at Princeton and became his lifelong "literary conscience" not to mention the most important literary critic in America. These two names will be seen on the masthead of the Nassau Lit along with Fitzgerald's. Scholars will also be fascinated to note that key themes found in Fitzgerald's mature fiction come into focus in his undergraduate work. Heroes and heroines recognizably Fitzgeraldian populate these pages. And the abundant original artwork culled from back issues of The Tiger and Nassau Lit gives the book a delightful visual appeal found in no other Fitzgerald book.
From Booklist , April 1, 1998
Wonderful quotes on writing and writers from one of the most important figures in 20th century literature.
This book describes in detail the slippery friendship of two of literature's greatest stars. Brucolli, who wrote what many consider the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, uses previously unavailable correspondence between Papa and Scott to help set straight some of the anecdotal myths surrounding the two writers. Fitzgerald's role in helping jumpstart Hemingway's career and his astute criticism of Hemingway's works in progress, particularly some of his editorial ideas for The Sun Also Rises, are all fascinating to read. Also includes a nice chronology of Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's friendship.
San Francisco Chronicle
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