Book description
Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this
collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering
Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight
decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories,
including 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', a fairy tale of unlimited
wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and
'The Lost Decade', written in Fitzgerald's last years. F. Scott
Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton
University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said
to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he
defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths
in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive
relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major
influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels,
This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned,
Tender is the Night
and The Love of the Last Tycoon.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.
