Flappers and Philosophers (The Complete Fitzgerald's Collection - Alma Classics): Scott F. Fitzgerald. (The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection) - Softcover

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847493467 ISBN 13: 9781847493460

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Lavishly produced edition with flaps, black and white plates, part of Alma Classics collection of Fitzgerald's works. 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 marriage 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.

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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 marriage 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.

Review:

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847493467
• ISBN 13: 9781847493460
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224