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Zusatztext "More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story." -- Mark Caldwell! The Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise , in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned , The Great Gatsby , and Tender Is the Night . He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon . Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Klappentext Spanning the author's entire career, this collection of 43 of Fitzgerald's short stories "present Fitzgerald's craftmanship, versatility, originality, and his gift for conveying the emotional tenor of characters and situations" (Merle Rubin, The Houston Post). Zusammenfassung Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels! but in his own time! his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now! a half-century after the author's death! the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer! Matthew J. Bruccoli! has assembled in one volume the full scope of Fitzgerald's best short fiction: forty-three sparkling masterpieces! ranging from such classic novellas as "The Rich Boy!" "May Day!" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" to his commercial work for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks." For the reader! these stories will underscore the depth and extraordinary range of Fitzgerald's literary talents. Furthermore! Professor Bruccoli's illuminating preface and introductory headnotes establish the literary and biographical settings in which these stories now shine anew with brighter luster than ever. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSFOREWORDPREFACEHEAD AND SHOULDERSBERNICE BOBS HER HAIRTHE ICE PALACETHE OFFSHORE PIRATEMAY DAYTHE JELLY-BEANTHE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONTHE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZWINTER DREAMSDICE, BRASSKNUCKLES & GUITARABSOLUTIONRAGS MARTIN-JONES AND THE PR-NCE OF W-LES"THE SENSIBLE THING"LOVE IN THE NIGHTTHE RICH BOYJACOB'S LADDERA SHORT TRIP HOMETHE BOWLTHE CAPTURED SHADOWBASIL AND CLEOPATRATHE LAST OF THE BELLESMAJESTYAT YOUR AGETHE SWIMMERSTWO WRONGSFIRST BLOODEMOTIONAL BANKRUPTCYTHE BRIDAL PARTYONE TRIP ABROADTHE HOTEL CHILDBABYLON REVISITEDA NEW LEAFA FREEZE-OUTSIX OF ONE --WHAT A HANDSOME PAIR!CRAZY SUNDAYMORE THAN JUST A HOUSEAFTERNOON OF AN AUTHORFINANCING FINNEGANTHE LOST DECADE"BOIL SOME WATER -- LOTS OF IT"LAST KISSDEARLY BELOVED...
