Collected Stories: Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories v.1: Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories Vol 1 (Twentieth Century Classics)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

ISBN 10: 0140180591 / ISBN 13: 9780140180596

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1990

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Seller Inventory # CHL10329601

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Stories: Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories v.1: Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories Vol 1 (Twentieth Century Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140180591
• ISBN 13: 9780140180596
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

Synopsis

6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler’s most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "May Day," "The Jelly-Bean," and "The Offshore Pirate."

About the Author

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.