Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the «Lost Generation» of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, his most famous, The Great Gatsby and what is now considered his true masterpiece, Tender Is the Night. A...
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the «Jazz Age». Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz age itself. Also it shows several references to the depression,...
With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923. He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story «Absolution.» Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim....
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED <br>FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD <br>TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE <br>THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
