Book description
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." 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. Among his publications were five novels,
This Side of Paradise
, The Great Gatsby
, The Beautiful and the Damned
, Tender is the Night
and The Love of the Last Tycoon
(his last and unfinished work): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up
, a selection of autobiographical pieces. Fitzgerald died suddenly in
1940.
