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This is one case where the book was NOT better than the movie....if I'd have read the book first, I'd have never watched the movie....It was well-written and I enjoyed it, but many details were left to my imagination.Sometimes the joy of reading a book is in the descriptive passages.....spending a page explaining how the air felt on that foggy morning, or how the sunlight danced....it was just "okay".A cute story! ... Read more

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More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald´s novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby´s place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques and explore the influence of this "Lost Generation" work on later American writings. In considering secondary sources from the twenties to the present, this smart and sophisticated study guide offers readers an invaluable resource on this complex rendering of a moment in American history. ... Read more

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The Failure of Gatsby's American Dream
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published by Simon & Schuster Inc. in New York in 1925. The book is about the American Dream and the failure of the attempt to reach its illusionary goals, especially the Gatsby's. The attempt to capture the American Dream is central theme to many stories of all times. For Gatsby, the dream is that one can acquire love and happiness through wealth and power. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was born in St Paul, Minnesota. He was an American short-story writer and novelist. The Great Gatsby is considered as Fitzgerald's finest novel.
The story was set in New York and Long Island in 1920's. Nick Carraway is a young man working as a bond broker in New York. He is used as the narrator throughout the story. Nick acts as an insider as well as an outsider. He eyes everything that is happening in between, but has no intention to interfere. I think he chooses not to lose anybody close to him in the story. This arrangement makes it easy for Fitzgerald to give the audience detailed inside information and to back out as an outsider as needed. The core character, Jay Gatsby, is a character that longs for the past. He devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and he finally pays his life as the price in his pursuit. When he was young in the military, Gatsby fell in love with the beautiful Daisy, but he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status. So he left her to acquire wealth. When he got the wealth legally or illegally, he moved near to Daisy, who has already married to another wealthy man, and threw extravagant parties every week hoping Daisy might show up one day at the party. Finally, he set up a meeting with Daisy through her cousin Nick. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's personal dream to symbolize the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want.
Nick is a multi-functional character to the author. He uses Nick as the approach for Gatsby to Daisy. The author naturally arranges all these. Gatsby cannot accept that the past is gone and done with. Nick once attempts to show him the folly of his dream, but Gatsby innocently replies to Nick's assertion that the past cannot be relived. For Gatsby, his American Dream is not material possessions, although it may seem that way. He only comes into wealth to fulfill his Dream, Daisy.
Gatsby believes that he is acting for good beyond his personal interest and that should guarantee success. However, he is terribly wrong. He is so determined and so blind that he would do anything to get Daisy, even covering her up for the fatal accident. His dream never comes about and he ends up paying the ultimate price for it. The idea of the American Dream still holds true in today's time, which is wealth, love, or fame. But one thing never changes about the American Dream. That is everyone desires something in life and strives to get it. Gatsby is a good example of pursuing the American Dream.
A society naturally breaks up into various social groups over time. Members of the lower statuses constantly suppose that their problems can be solved if they gain enough wealth to reach the upper class. Fitzgerald believes in his story that many people interpret the American Dream as being this passage to high social status. They believe once reaching that point, they do not have to worry about money any more. Though, the American Dream involves more than the social and economic standings of an individual.
It seems that the more Gatsby tries to obtain, the less he ends up with. The saddest part of Gatsby is the funeral, which symbolizes the ultimate failure of Gatsby to ever achieve what he has wanted. The women he loved and died for was not present. None of the people who frequented the parties over the summer showed up. Wolfsheim, whom Nick believed to be a close friend to Gatsby, refused to attend. The idealism conflicts with the materialism and is torn apart. However, it is his father who lives at the bottom of the society, who is the most natural and native person in the story, whom Gatsby has never mentioned about, finds his way to his son's mansion for the funeral. What greatness of a father's love is in contrast to the love that Gatsby died for? That is the love of eternity. The father loves his son no matter his son is rich or poor. At this moment, both the idealism and materialism are eclipsed by the truthfulness and naturalness. And that is why Nick was tired of the life there, the carelessness of the people, and the corruption of the society in the American East. He decided to head back to his origin, to the more natural and traditional American Mid-West.
Gatsby possesses an extreme imbalance between the material and spiritual sides of himself. Fitzgerald uses him as a portrait of the ultimate failure of the American Dream in that individuals tend to believe wealth is everything. Maybe what Fitzgerald wants to say is that a nation cannot operate solely on materialism. The spirits of individuals are the true composition of a nation.

The Great Gatsby: What a novel!
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fiction novel that took the world by storm. Nick, Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan a tangled mess of social relationships, some intended for love, some for friendships, others stemmed from old running love. Nick lives on West Egg, near the Gatsby mansion, Gatsby a man whom Nick comes to know well, as well as possible.

Gatsby throws huge social gatherings that people come to even if not familiar with the man Gatsby himself. Nick goes to these gatherings and soon meets Gatsby and becomes friends of leisure. When reading of these lavish parties of Gatsby's F. Scott Fitzgerald makes you feel as though you have been there and wish to stay one second and leave the next by feelings of discomfort. But yet you will want to continue to read to see what is in store next.

Gatsby throws these gatherings in hopes of meeting Daisy once again, for in the past they were lovers. Tom, who is Daisy's husband, is also Nick's old college buddy, is clueless of Gatsby's intentions with Daisy. Which Tom himself is not so faithful to Daisy. Nick agrees, not so whole heartedly, to help Gatsby and Daisy meet. As all of this falls into place Tom continues to see a mistress by the name of Mrs. Wilson, a woman who is married to a mechanic living in a dreary place. Meanwhile Nick starts to fall for a flirtatious and wildly mannered Ms. Jordan Baker. The parties continue to exist, and the company continues to fall into a social web of deceit and denial. As this all takes place you feel for Gatsby because of his longing for Daisy, but are struck by a weak appalling feeling for the way he seems to go about his business.

As the story continues to fall into place some find true love, some find old love, while others find the truth. The plot thickens as a death occurs causing an uproar of suspension of motive and a scandalous cover up causing suspension and tension among the old acquaintances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald throws twist and turns at you in this novel just when you think nothing else could happen. He has quite the talent for hooking a read and slowly reeling them in to feel every slight bump and jerk before reaching the shore, or the end. Which leads to another misfortunate death in the novel that was a great mistake, but yet made a great ending to a great novel that will have you intrigued from the first page to the last. ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics eBook contains twenty-one novels and short stories by Roaring Twenties author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' 'This Side of Paradise,' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.


Novels:

This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and the Damned


Short Stories:

The Jelly-Bean
The Camel's Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tarquin of Cheapside
Oh Russet Witch!
The Lees of Happiness
Mr. Icky
Jemina
The Offshore Pirate
The Ice Palace
Head and Shoulders
The Cut-Glass Bowl
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Benediction
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
The Four Fists
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, better known today for his novels, was in his own time one of America's most gifted and prolific writers of stories and novellas; a true contributor to the legacy of North American literature. This compilation of short stories is the first of two volumes through which we get a glimpse into what is known as the “lost generation” in the festive decades of the 20’s and 30’s.Description in Spanish: La literatura norteamericana no sería la misma sin los relatos de Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Punto de Lectura los recopila en dos volúmenes para hacer llegar a los lectores la vida de la llamada generación perdida durante los felices años veinte y treinta norteamericanos ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:HEAD AND SHOULDERSIn 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A— excellent—in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry.Two years later, while George M. Cohan was composing "Over There," Horace was leading the sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on "The Syllogism as an Obsolete Scholastic Form," and during the battle of Chateau-Thierry he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his seventeenth birthday before beginning his series of essays on "The Pragmatic Bias of the New Realists."After a while some newsboy told him that the war was over, and he was glad, because it meant that Peat Brothers, publishers, would get out their new edition of "Spinoza's Improvement of the Understanding." Wars were all very well in their way, made young men self-reliant or something, but Horace felt that he could never forgive the President for allowing a brass band to play under his window on the night of the false armistice, causing him to leave three important sentences out of his thesis on "German Idealism."The next year he went up to Yale to take his degree as Master of Arts.He was seventeen then, tall and slender, with near-sighted gray eyes and an air of keeping himself utterly detached from the mere words he let drop."I never feel as though I'm talking to him," expostulated Professor Dillinger to a sympathetic colleague. "He makes me feel as though I were talking to his representative. I always expect him to say: 'Well, I'll ask myself and find out.'"And then, just as nonchalantly as though Horace Tarbox had been Mr. Beef the butcher or Mr. Hat the haberdasher, life reach... ... Read more

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Step Right Up and Come of Age in Early 20th Century America
This little book of eight short stories took me about a week to read, and now I'm very sorry that it's over. All of the stories were very entertaining and vivid. In between reading it, I would feel I was a nineteen-year-old girl in the first or second decade of the twentieth century. Many of the stories in this book are focused on girls of that age, and I thought it was quite strange that Fitzgerald could write so well about them. Almost all of the stories can be classified as "coming of age" stories in the early twentieth century.


The book starts off with a strong and rebellious nineteen-year-old girl in "The Offshore Pirate." That first story was probably my favorite. My second favorite was probably "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," which was also about a nineteen-year-old who was figuring herself out a lot more than the heroine from the first story, who knew exactly who she was and what she wanted. I also liked "The Ice Palace" in which a very vivacious teenager named Sally Carroll visits a Northeastern city in the hopes of marrying, and finds out that she misses the colorful southern town where she grew up.

The last story in the collection, "The Four Fists," features a manly man who gets knocked down by four punches in his lifetime, each of which teaches him an important lesson, and the story takes him from New York to the oil fields of Texas and the ranches of New Mexico. It's rather refreshing to read a burly story after all the quite feminine ones, but I truly liked them all. The second-to-last story, "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong," also features a male character and his descent into shadiness. What I noticed is how differently Fitzgerald writes about male characters than female characters - there's less internal monologue and descriptions of thoughts and conversations, and more action at a swiftly moving pace. One story, "Head and Shoulders" does a beautiful job of explaining a role reversal of sorts, in which the female character shines and the male character withers.

To read this book was to be transported back to a totally different time - anywhere from the 1890's to the 19-teens, and to totally different places - usually New England towns, Ivy League educational institutions, and country clubs. I enjoyed the scenes about fox trots and flappers and jazz music and I wished, sometimes, that I could have lived back then. But Fitzgerald had great sympathy for his female characters - "The Cut-Glass Bowl" featured a downfall of one of them, and the strong character of Marjorie in "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" explains how they can become withered and unloved housewives, many of whom are disapprovingly interspersed into that story.

In fact, if I carry one thing away from Flappers and Philosophers other than hours of entertaining reading, it is a remark on the position of young women in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The stories feature girls at the cusp of womanhood who wear rose-tinted glasses and think that life is about dances and social events. Yet the men are the ones getting an education, seeing the world and taking part in all of the action (again with the exception of the uniquely witty "Heads and Shoulders" plot). In this sense I am very happy to be living in the 21st century and just reading about these female characters in the early 20th century.

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Entertaining, Popular Pieces That Paid The Bills.
``Flappers and Philosophers'' was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first short-story collection. It's an entertaining group, brimming with the spirit of youth.
The author's first published novel, ``This Side of Paradise,'' sold well. To capitalize on this publisher Charles Scribner collected eight of Fitzgerald's magazine stories and published them in a single volume in September 1920.
The collection contains two of the author's best-known short works -- ``The Ice Palace'' and ``Bernice Bobs Her Hair.'' Fitzgerald shows considerable skill in depicting horror in ``The Ice Palace'' as well as ``The Cut-Glass Bowl.'' Although Fitzgerald wrote to H.L. Mencken that ``Bernice'' was ``trash,'' the story is strong in showing the workings of peer pressure and popularity seeking.
``Flappers and Philosophers'' was dedicated to Fitzgerald's wife, the spirited and mercurial Zelda. Fittingly, we meet a Zelda on the very first page -- Ardita Farnam of ``The Offshore Pirate.'' ``Pirate'' is a romance that dwarfs contemporary Harlequin-type gruel.
Most of the stories have at least one good plot twist. ``Dalyrimple Goes Wrong'' and ``Head and Shoulders'' are the best of the twisters.
``Four Fists'' rings a bit hollow but it's well written. ``Benediction'' is the weakest story in the group. The brother and sister constantly using each other's names was grating. The hint of incest turned me off doubly. ``The Cut-Glass Bowl'' was my favorite.
The collection ought to be read and put in context by students of Fitzgerald. Students should know that these stories are what made Fitzgerald known to the American reading public during his lifetime. Today Fitzgerald is known for ``The Great Gatsby,'' a, if not THE, masterpiece novel. But ``Gatsby'' was a commercial flop during the author's lifetime. What fueled Fitzgerald's celebrity in the 1920s and what paid his considerable bills was short stories. So buy and read ``Flappers and Philosophers'' as well as ``Tales of The Jazz Age'' to see why pre-Depression America fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Form and Finesse
Fitzgerald's stories manage to unite his otherworldly grasp of the fluctuations in the human soul. He is a master at presenting its contrivances and vanities as things that happen to people.The tension in these tales rises with almost unconscious force.Red herrings of possible conclusions are whispered but almost in the style of a trickster.Someone always gets conned and someone unmasked- all within that now long-gone era that held a fullhouse of interesting details and premonitions of an ominous future."Beatrice Bobs her Hair" always has something more to say about savage young ladies.It deserves its place, I think, in every highschool English curriculum. The spoiled rich girls inevitably fall madly in love- with the cads or the tricksters. It was interesting to read "Benediction" in this era of the priest scandals. How priests were seen by Fitzgerald, or perhaps how he conceived his alter ego- is apparent in his return to his natural self through the heroine's choice at the end.This writer always has a trick up his sleeve for the unpredictable conclusion.
I am surprised that there are not more raves over this collection, but perhaps that is the nature of the post modern era.I on the other hand -rave. Story, resolution, all those little formulas that separate the artist from the amateur in the impossible short story form.Fitzgerald, except for perhaps in Gatsby, never achieved such form and plotting in his novels. His youth too, can be sensed in the humorous and rather light-hearted manner by which he casts his characters and those obstacles that they encounter.

Form and Finesse
Fitzgerald's stories manage to unite his otherworldly grasp of the fluctuations in the human soul. He is a master at presenting its contrivances and vanities as things that happen to people.The tension in these tales rises with almost unconscious force.Red herrings of possible conclusions are whispered but almost in the style of a trickster.Someone always gets conned and someone unmasked- all within that now long-gone era that held a fullhouse of interesting details and premonitions of an ominous future."Beatrice Bobs her Hair" always has something more to say about savage young ladies.It deserves its place, I think, in every highschool English curriculum. The spoiled rich girls inevitably fall madly in love- with the cads or the tricksters. It was interesting to read "Benediction" in this era of the priest scandals. How priests were seen by Fitzgerald, or perhaps how he conceived his alter ego- is apparent in his return to his natural self through the heroine's choice at the end.This writer always has a trick up his sleeve for the unpredictable conclusion.
I am surprised that there are not more raves over this collection, but perhaps that is the nature of the post modern era.I on the other hand -rave. Story, resolution, all those little formulas that separate the artist from the amateur in the impossible short story form.Fitzgerald, except for perhaps in Gatsby, never achieved such form and plotting in his novels. His youth too, can be sensed in the humorous and rather light-hearted manner by which he casts his characters and those obstacles that they encounter.

Excellent, engrossing short stories
Fitzgerald may not have been overly fond of his short stories, but his writing skill and insight shine through anyway.In The Ice Palace and Bernice Bobs her Hair and the Four Fists in particular, Fitzgerald captures individuals struggling with themselves.Who/what should they be, and why?While I wasn't too fond of the pirate story, as it lacked these elements, the other stories in the book show a depth of understanding and introspection that makes for a wonderful, thoughtful read. ... Read more

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.

Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt letters, and quickly ran its course–but Scott never forgot it. Now, for the first time, scholar and biographer James L. W. West III tells the story of the youthful passion that shaped Scott Fitzgerald’s life as a writer.

When Scott and Ginevra met in January 1915, the rest of the world was at war, but America remained a haven for young people who could afford to have a good time. Privileged and mildly rebellious, the two were swept together in a whirl of dances, parties, campus weekends, and chaperoned visits to New York.

“For heaven’s sake don’t idealize me!” Ginevra warned in one of the many letters she sent to Scott, but of course that’s just what he did–for the next two decades. Though he fell in love with Zelda Sayre soon after learning of Ginevra’s engagement to a well-to-do midwesterner, Scott drew on memories of Ginevra for his most unforgettable female characters–Isabelle Borgé and Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise, Judy Jones in “Winter Dreams,” and above all Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Transformed by Scott’s art, Ginevra became a new American heroine who inspired an entire generation.


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Young Fitzgerald in Love
Anyone who's ever had a serious interest in the life or writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald should read this book.I became interested in Fitzgerald in my teens, read the biographies, and always felt disappointed by the lack of information about Ginevra King, who obviously played an important role in Fitzgerald's life and work.There were so many tantalizing glimpses of Ginevra, both in fictional form (Judy Jones and Josephine Perry) and reality (the essay where Scott mentions that Ginevra "made luminous the Ritz roof" on a visit to New York).
What follows is the version of events given by James L.W. West III in The Perfect Hour.Scott was 18 and Ginevra 16 when they met at a party in January 1915.Mutual friends thought Ginevra and Scott might hit it off, and they did.For most of their relationship, however, the two were separated:Ginevra lived either at boarding school or at home in Chicago, while Scott was either at Princeton or at home in St. Paul.Since they couldn't be together, they did the next best thing, writing long letters to each other.As portrayed by West, the relationship seems to have been a friendship with elements of romance.Ginevra confessed to her diary that she was "dipped about" and "gone on" Scott, which indicates that she was enjoying a teenage crush.He apparently took the relationship much more seriously, as his fictionalized versions of it later showed.In one of the letters from Ginevra to Scott that appears in Appendix Two of The Perfect Hour, Ginevra diagnosed the problem exactly."You know you can't help falling madly for a girl," she wrote, "It isn't really you yourself that does it, it's an indescribable thing inside you."Ginevra ultimately tired of corresponding with a young man her family would not have considered marriage material, and the relationship ended. The version of the relationship Fitzgerald gave his daughter was that, "Ginevra had a great deal besides beauty," but "she ended up throwing me over with the most supreme boredom and indifference."
Some reviewers of The Perfect Hour have wondered why the Fitzgerald-King relationship interests people today, almost 100 years later.This is why:the "indescribable thing" that led Fitzgerald to obsessively recreate versions of Ginevra and his romance with her gave American fiction some of its most lyrical and evocative scenes and characters.Fitzgerald's writings continue to inspire us today, and the more we can learn about their genesis, the wiser we will be.

A Key to the Elusive Miss King
I fell in love with Gatsby when I was 14.Since then, I've tried to read every available Fitzgerald biography, especially works from the late Fitzgerald chronicler Matthew Bruccoli.When The Perfect Hour was published, I read it immediately.As other reviewers have indicated, this book opens the door to a romance that, due to social imperatives of the time, was destined to be temporary. Although bright, handsome and Princeton-educated, young Fitzgerald was not remotely in the social class to be considered marriageable to the very wealthy Miss King.

The material in the book confirms that Ginevra King was very much part of a composite of the unattainable woman exemplified by Daisy Buchanan (Gatsby), Judy Jones (Winter Dreams)and Paula Legendre (The Rich Boy).James West does an admirable job in researching the very limited amount of information available, both in writing and from those who knew both Fitzgerald and King.He enlightens us with information about Ginevra's friends, especially the golfer Edith Cummings, who was to serve as a model for Gatsby's Jordan Baker.

I live in the Chicago area, am fortunate to have trod where Ginevra once did:The beautiful old Episcopal church where she married Billy Mitchell, her first husband; the clubs her family frequented; and the old-money environs of Lake Forest.The best surprise of this book had nothing to do with its content: My mother-in-law recognized the cover photo, and said, "Oh, is it about that nice Mrs. Pirie?"Ginevra had divorced Billy Mitchell and married a scion of the Carson Pirie Scott department store family.Of course I was immediately all over my mother-in-law with questions about the legendary lady who, as it turned out, was a founding member of an exclusive women's club to which my relative belonged.

My mother-in-law knew Mrs. Pirie only in her older age, but described her as charming, elegant, witty and very sure of herself.So sure, she would wear the same dark green wool, velvet-trimmed suit to her club's annual meeting - year after year, while other club members strived to outdo each other in the latest fashions.It appeared Mrs. Pirie had no interest in discussing her fabulous youth. Her friends did not mention Fitzgerald in her presence.That chapter of her life was very much ended, and she was content to enjoy her long life.One wishes she had shared more memoirs of her youth.Ladies of her kind did not do that, and she was very much a lady.

Focusing on FitzgeraldBZ - Before Zelda!
This very slight little book explores the here-to-fore little known facts regarding Fitzgerald's early infatuation with the upper class Chicago deb Ginerva King. The Kings were a very wealthy family from Lake Forest and their daughter on the surface quite out of Fitzgerald's league. As Fitzgerald wrote about all this in 1916, "Poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls." Ginerva was athletic and very personable - and attractive - in 1918 simultaneously announcing her engagement while appearing on the cover of Town and Country magazine. Yet before this a romance of some sort with the poor Fitzgerald ensued, and the author compiles a remarkable amount of information about this youthful relationship, mostly from unknown letters and diaries saved and put away by Ginerva, and donated in 2003 by her granddaughter to the Fitzgerlad archives at Princeton.
These are full of interesting things, and for any Fitzgerald scholar or even just an ardent fan are a must. As one reads through the book the ghosts of early Fitzgerald heroines float in and out of our consciousness. Reminders of this moment in a particualr story, or how someone spoke or felt about a moment in one story or novel can suddenly quite vividly hit us. And it is not only the earlier material. The Perfect Hour serves to remind us all, again, that Daisy and Zelda are not interchangeable - Daisy is much more of a composite character, and many of her traits, from the voice that sounded like money, as Gatsby put it, to her best friend, the tennis champ, are taken from Ginerva's life.
Moreover, Ginerva's stockbroker father who owned a string of polo ponies is yet another source for the composite that is Tom Buchanan. And that rather subtly incestous concept reminds us that Fitzgerald's next novel after Gatsby was initially planned to be about a boy who killed his mother. There is much more going on in Fitzgerald than is generally thought.

Star Crossed Lovers
The story takes you to a different time, a time before cell phones, when letter writing was the main form of communication and young ladies wrote their private thoughts in a journal instead of a blog.Ginevra was rich, privileged and flirted with love.F. Scott Fitzgerald was handsome, charming and in love with Ginevra.Their lives would cross and uncross.Both would marry others.But their love lived on in F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing and in Ginevra's heart.I thoroughly enjoyed reading it -- and knowing it is the true love story about a man who wrote love stories made it all the more interesting.

The Perfect Love? Not Quite.
It's a small book but a very important book For FSF Scholars & Lovers
of the writings & biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I believe most of us can relate to that, 'that first love'...'that perfect love' &
'that lost love'.
Many readers for the first time will realise that all of Fitzgeralds Heroines
were not based on Zelda alone. Zelda was Scott's True Love but many of his most important heroines were based on Ginevra. e.g. 'Daisy'...
'she loves me she loves me not' in 'Gatsby.
Theofanicus Cosmicos August 29 2005

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Intriguing & Interesting Read
After the last couple of crappers I've read, this book was like a cool breeze on a hot day.Snappy writing, interesting characters, great plot, funny repartee--what more can you ask for?Love this author and plan to read more Stuart Hoag books based on my excellent experience with this one.

What a read!
I have never been shooshed so much while reading a book - I was chuckling at Handler's wit every other page!Hoagy is a great character and the plot is a pretty twisty one as well.A great read!I've said it many a time toemphasize how good a book was, but this is the first time I actuallyFINISHED A BOOK IN ONE SITTING! I couldn't read it fast enough.GOODSTUFF!

Handler is a scream.
Handler is a scream. His stories are orginal and his characters are very lively. No trends are spared from Handler's savage pen. I hope Handler enjoys writing the Hoagy series as much as I enjoy reading it ... Read more

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There was all the ecstasy of an engagement about it, sharpened by his realization that there was no engagement. It was during those three days that, for the first time, he had asked her to marry him. She said "maybe some day," she said "kiss me," she said "I'd like to marry you," she said "I love you"--she said-- nothing. ... Read more

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A Foreshadowing of The Great Gatsy.
"Winter Dreams," published first in Metropolitan Magazine, is considered one of the finest stories of Fitzgerald.Many of the themes of this story were later expanded upon in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's most famous novel.This short story's Judy Jones character, for instance, is very similar to the Daisy Gatsby falls in love with in the novel.Like the novel, this story is an excellent read. ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics ebook is F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age Classic THIS SIDE OF PARADISE.

Wealthy and attractive Princeton student Amory Blaine dabbles in literature and romance, and becomes disillusioned by the greed and social climbing of post-World War I American youth.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories. He is widely regarded as one of the "Lost Generation's" greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels and wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.A chronic alcoholic, Fitzgerald suffered a massive heart attack and passed away in 1940.

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The Great Gatsby
Along with its amazing choice of words and indescribable wit, The GreatGatsby has become the greatest novel an American author has ever written. F. Scotts Fitzgerald's genuine look into "The Roaring Twenties"gives us a view of a "lost generation" of aristocratic life andthe American dream. It must be analyzed and compared to our time in thelate 1990's and early second millenia. This book is a classic not becausecritics revered its content, it is as great as it is because Americaembraced it. The novel deserves your attention and leaves you satisfied. So when Nick Carraway says "So we beat on, boats against the current,born back ceaselessly into the past," the reader would close theirbooks and look at the front cover of the novel and feel a little bit morecomplete.

EXTRAORDINARY
The Great Gastby is simply captivating! It pulls you into this dream world of the "night life" and you long to be with these characters. With it's intense symbols, mysterious style, and it's stunning turn ofevents, this is a classic. ... Read more

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Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her. ... Read more

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NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.

A collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

The first story begins in 1860 with the birth of Benjamin Button. Benjamin Button is born with the body of a seventy-year-old man, and when his father first visits him mere hours after his birth he is already able to speak. He is born aging backwards (he was an old man as a baby and vice versa), causing several complications. This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.

Included in this volume:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Jelly-Bean
The Camel's Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Tarquin of Cheapside
"Oh Russet Witch"
The Lees of Happiness
Mr. Icky
Jemina ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Great collection of stories at an even better price.
Another inexpensive purchase on my Kindle.A great collection of stories by a great writer.

excellent reading
i just finished this reading on my kindle and i enjoyed it very much im writing this from my kindle2

Classic Fitzgerald
Wonderful story; I can't wait to see how they made it into a movie. These classic collections available on the Kindle are just wonderful values and put imaginative, classic writing right at your fingertips.

Great Story, Great Value
This was a very touching short story.I love that there are other stories included and it is indexed so that you can get to each one quickly.You can't beat the price either!

great value
Better to payunder one dollar here than 8 dollars elsewhere on this site.I bought it for the Be Button story but there are 10 others thrown in. ... Read more