F. Scott Fitzgerald

A debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti. This Side of Paradise follows life of Amory Blaine, an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and formulates his own philosophy of romantic egoism. The novel explores post war uncertainties, the theme of love, greed...

A collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald featuring some of his best work. The collection is divided into three sections: My Last Flappers, Fantasies, Unclassified Masterpieces. The author&'s initial intent was to use fantasies for his personal amusement. These have become most popular and include such classics as The Curious Case of...

A meditation on love, money and decadence reflected in the life of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite exploring the New York cafe society scene during the Jazz Age. The story follows his relationship with his wife, Gloria, his service in the army, and his alcoholism. As in Fitzgerald&'s other novels, the characters are complex, especially with...

In this, his first novel, the life and career of the narcissistic, gifted and handsome hero, Amory Blaine, echoes Fitzgerald's own life in several ways. First, as a young man growing up in the age of fun and plenty that preceded the Wall Street Crash, later at Princeton, where Amory becomes one of the literary circle, falls in love with...

Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it's a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald's ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana,The...

"e;All crowds have to howl."e;Although F.Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the most raw, directly political commentary he ever wrote, and one of the most desperate works in his oeuvre.It is a tale...