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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101847493467
ISBN-139781847493460
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038797154
Product Key Features
Book TitleFlappers and Philosophers
Number of Pages244 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author)
GenreFiction
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
Book SeriesThe F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation." - The New York Times
SynopsisPublished soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose marriage to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s, F. Scott Fitzgerald's collection of stories spans the whole of his career, from the early stories set in the Jazz Age through to the last twilight decades of the author's life., Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.