F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works: Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] Fitzgerald, F. Scott [As New] [Hardcover]

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As new condition red boards with a silver gray spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction. First edition, first printing of Fall River Press, an imprint of Sterling Publishing. Novels and short stories are as follows: This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; FROM 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; FROM 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; and Jemina, the Mountain Girl. ""F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works celebrates the genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set during America's Roaring Twenties, these gems of storytelling capture the exuberant excesses and precarious splendor of the Jazz Age as only the author of The Great Gatsby could imagine them. Includes 2 Novels: This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned AND 19 stories from Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age."" - from the rear outer jacket. ""No writer portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly or energetically as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published nearly a century ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works features two full-length novels and nineteen short stories that rank among Fitzgerald's best work, and as some of the greatest American writing of the early twentieth century. It includes This Side of Paradise, the coming-of-age story that launched his career as a novelist, and The Beautiful and Damned, his incisive exploration of the Jazz Age in all of its sophistication and decadence. In addition, this volume features the full contents of Fitzgerald's first two collections of short fiction, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age, including ""Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"" ""The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,"" ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"" and other tales that earned him a reputation as one of the most talented writers of The Lost Generation. Written as only they could be by an insider to the society that they portray, the twenty-one stories in F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works capture the precarious splendor and the doomed glory of that opulent era that their author called the Jazz Age."" - from the inner front jacket flap.