The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play, Volume 1, Volume 1The first comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and essays is now available in eBook only. This definitive edition pulls together the complete works from such celebrated titles as Tales of the Jazz Age, Babylon Revisited, Flappers and Philosophers, and many others. For the first time ever, readers will have all of the short stories and essays ordered chronologically in two volumes. Volume one contains the works from 1916 to 1927, including the out-of-print play, The Vegetable. Each volume also includes photos, critical excerpts, and essays from noted Fitzgerald scholars. This is a treasure for any Fitzgerald fan. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 7 | |
| 26 | |
| 38 | |
| 58 | |
Mr Icky | 87 |
The Camels Back | 96 |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair | 127 |
Gretchens Forty Winks | 748 |
How to Live on 36000 a Year | 771 |
Absolution | 787 |
Rags MartinJones and the Prnce of Wles | 806 |
The Sensible Thing | 828 |
Majesty | 845 |
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year | 868 |
The Baby Party | 889 |
The CutGlass Bowl | 157 |
The Ice Palace | 181 |
The Offshore Pirate | 211 |
The Four Fists | 247 |
May Day | 266 |
Whos Whoand Why | 327 |
The JellyBean | 331 |
The Lees of Happiness | 354 |
O Russet Witch | 380 |
Tarquin of Cheapside | 416 |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 425 |
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | 456 |
Winter Dreams | 504 |
Introduction to The Vegetable by Charles Scribner III | 531 |
The Vegetable | 545 |
Appendix I Scenes Cut from Act II of The Vegetable | 641 |
Appendix I Typescript with Cartoon | 642 |
Appendix II Original Program for The Vegetable | 688 |
Appendix II Corrections and Addenda for The Vegetable | 692 |
Dice Brassknuckles Guitar | 701 |
Hot and Cold Blood | 730 |
Love in the Night | 903 |
The Adjuster | 923 |
A Penny Spent | 949 |
The Rich Boy | 979 |
A Note on My Generation | 1023 |
Jacobs Ladder | 1029 |
Princeton | 1059 |
Life and Career by James L W West III | 1071 |
Photo Insert BW with Captions | 1079 |
A Table of Contents Annotated Table of Contents by FSF providing facts and background info on each of the stories | 1087 |
A New Collection | 1093 |
Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith from Bits pf Paradise | 1097 |
Preface by Matthew J Bruccoli from Bits of Paradise | 1104 |
A New Collection | 1110 |
Introduction by Arthur Mizener from The Fitzgerald Reader | 1120 |
Introduction by Arthur Mizener from Afternoon of an Author | 1136 |
Introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan from Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories | 1148 |
A New Collection | 1157 |
Critical Excerpts | 1184 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 1191 |
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