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Flappers and Philosophersmarked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself "a master of the mechanism of short-story technique" (Boston Transcript). Several of his most well-known tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "Head and Shoulders, " with their particularly O. Henrylike twists, the poignant "Benediction" and "The Cut-Glass ...

New York in den Roaring Twenties: Anthony und Gloria, jung, schön und verschwendungssüchtig, führen ihr von Arbeit unbehelligtes Partyleben in sicherer Erwartung eines Millionenerbes. Doch als Anthonys betagter Großvater in eines ihrer Gelage platzt, zerbirst der Traum jäh, und das Pärchen gerät in eine Abwärtsspirale aus Alkoholsucht, Depression und Selbstzerstörung. Wie kein anderer Autor versteht es Fitzgerald, den Glanz der schönen Oberflä...

This devastating satire of the nouveaux riches and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, is also a shattering portrait of a marriage wasted by alcohol and wealth.

Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting. A devastating satire of rec...

Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting. A devastating satire of rec...

Filtered through Fitzgerald's remarkable intensity of vision and fed by his matchless imagination, these tales shimmer with the exuberance of youth during the Jazz Age. This sublime short story collection plumbs the depths of human feeling with a perspicacity that is quintessential Fitzgerald.