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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels & Stories 1920–1922

This Side of Paradise | Flappers and Philosophers | The Beautiful and Damned | Tales of the Jazz Age More

Edited by Jackson Bryer

“A lucky genius of style…” — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Overview

Interviews Why The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest hour—and why an authoritative text matters
March 29, 2022

Story of the Week F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
March 11, 2022

Story of the Week F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lees of Happiness”
September 24, 2021

At the outset of what he called “the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the works that brought him instant fame, mastering the glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his writing. Celebrating the riotous energy and naïve optimism of a generation that believed itself liberated from the past, Fitzgerald’s early works, which are collected in this Library of America volume, also sound a plaintive strain beneath the era’s wild cacophony, a lament for the wasted potential of youth. They remain the fullest literary expression of one of the most fascinating eras in American life.

This Side of Paradise (1920) gave Fitzgerald the early success that defined and haunted him for the rest of his career. Offering in its Princeton chapters the most enduring portrait of college life in American literature, this lyrical novel records the ardent and often confused longings of its hero’s struggles to find love and to formulate a philosophy of life.

Flappers and Philosophers (1920), a collection of accomplished short stories, includes such classics as “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong,” “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” and “The Ice Palace.”

Fitzgerald continues his dissection of a self-destructive era in his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), as the self-styled aristocrat Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria, are cut off from an inheritance and forced to endure the excruciating dwindling of their fortune. Here New York City, playground for the pleasure-loving Patches and brutal mirror of their dissipation, is portrayed more vividly than anywhere else in Fitzgerald’s work.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), his second collection of stories, includes the novella “May Day,” featuring interlocking tales of debutantes, soldiers, and socialists brought together in the uncertain aftermath of World War I, and “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable in which the excesses of the Jazz Age take the hallucinatory form of a palace of unfathomable opulence hidden deep in the Montana Rockies.

Jackson R. Bryer, volume editor, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Critical Reception and, with John Kuehl, Dear Scott / Dear Max: The Fitzgerald–Perkins Correspondence.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels & Stories 1920–1922 is kept in print by a gift from Deborah and Jason McManus through the DJ McManus Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in memory of Augusta Gottlieb.
News & Views

Interviews Why The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest hour—and why an authoritative text matters
March 29, 2022

Story of the Week F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
March 11, 2022

Story of the Week F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Lees of Happiness”
September 24, 2021

Story of the Week Heywood Broun, “This Side of Paradise?”
September 18, 2020

Story of the Week F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Benediction”
September 27, 2018
Table of Contents

This Side of Paradise

Flappers and Philosophers
The Offshore Pirate
The Ice Palace
Head and Shoulders
The Cut-Glass Bowl
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Benediction
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
The Four Fists

The Beautiful and Damned

Tales of the Jazz Age
The Jelly-Bean
The Camel’s Back
May Day
Porcelain and Pink
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tarquin of Cheapside
“O Russet Witch!”
The Lees of Happiness
Mr. Icky
Jemina, the Mountain Girl

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