The Complete Short Stories and Essays, Volume 2, Volume 2The 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 two contains works from 1928 to 1940, the year Fitzgerald died, as well as posthumously published works. Each volume also includes photos, critical excerpts, and essays from noted Fitzgerald scholars. This is a treasure for any Fitzgerald fan. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 26 | |
| 55 | |
The Scandal Detectives | 83 |
A Night at the Fair | 106 |
The Freshest Boy | 126 |
He Thinks Hes Wonderful | 153 |
Outside the CabinetMakers | 178 |
An Alcoholic Case | 921 |
The Long Way Out | 931 |
Financing Finnegan | 937 |
Design in Plaster | 948 |
The Lost Decade | 955 |
Pat Hobbys Christmas Wish | 960 |
A Man in the Way | 971 |
Boil Some WaterLots of It | 978 |
The Captured Shadow | 184 |
The Perfect Life | 209 |
The Popular Girl | 236 |
Ten Years in the Advertising Business | 289 |
The Last of the Belles | 291 |
Forging Ahead | 311 |
Basil and Cleopatra | 334 |
The Rough Crossing | 358 |
At Your Age | 382 |
The Swimmers | 400 |
Two Wrongs | 424 |
First Blood | 448 |
A Nice Quiet Place | 469 |
The Bridal Party | 492 |
A Woman with a Past | 514 |
One Trip Abroad | 537 |
A Snobbish Story | 565 |
The Hotel Child | 591 |
Babylon Revisited | 615 |
A New Leaf | 640 |
Emotional Bankruptcy | 658 |
Echoes of the Jazz Age | 678 |
A FreezeOut | 689 |
Six of One | 715 |
Family in the Wind | 733 |
What a Handsome Pair | 756 |
Crazy Sunday | 780 |
One Interne | 801 |
One Hundred False Starts | 825 |
More Than Just a House | 837 |
The Fiend | 864 |
The Night at Chancellorsville | 872 |
The CrackUp | 878 |
Pasting It Together | 885 |
Handle with Care | 891 |
Authors House | 897 |
Afternoon of an Author | 905 |
I Didnt Get Over | 912 |
Teamed with Genius | 985 |
Pat Hobby and Orson Welles | 995 |
Pat Hobbys Secret | 1005 |
The Homes of the Stars | 1013 |
Pat Hobby Does His Bit | 1021 |
Pat Hobby Putative Father | 1031 |
Pat Hobbys Preview | 1039 |
No Harm Trying | 1047 |
On the Trail of Pat Hobby | 1058 |
A Patriotic Short | 1063 |
Fun in an Artists Studio | 1069 |
Two OldTimers | 1077 |
Mightier than the Sword | 1082 |
Pat Hobbys College Days | 1089 |
Three Hours Between Planes | 1097 |
News of ParisFifteen Years Ago | 1105 |
Last Kiss | 1112 |
That Kind of Party | 1133 |
Dearly Beloved | 1149 |
Life and Career by James L W West III | 1152 |
Photo Insert BW with Captions | 1160 |
A Table of Contents Annotated Table of Contents by FSF providing facts and background info on each of the stories | 1168 |
A New Collection | 1174 |
Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith from Bits of Paradise | 1178 |
Preface by Matthew J Bruccoli from Bits of Paradise | 1185 |
A New Collection | 1191 |
Introduction by Arthur Mizener from The Fitzgerald Reader | 1201 |
Introduction by Arthur Mizener from Afternoon of an Author | 1217 |
Introduction by Jackson R Bryer and John Kuehl from The Basil and Josephine Stories | 1229 |
Textual Note and Acknowledgments by Jackson R Bryer and John Kuehl from The Basil and Josephine Stories | 1251 |
Introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan from Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories | 1254 |
A New Collection | 1263 |
Introduction by Arnold Gingrich from The Pat Hobby Stories | 1290 |
Appendix 1940 revision of A Patriotic Short | 1308 |
Critical Excerpts | 1315 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 1322 |
Common terms and phrases
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