Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

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Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, Babylon Revisited tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse in seem more and more alien to him, he finds himself assailed by feelings of guilt and regret. Considered one of Fitzgeralds finest and most poignant pieces of short fiction, 'Babylon Revisited is presented here with a selection of other tales published in the same period, such as Crazy Sunday an account of alcoholism and infidelity in Hollywood which showcase the author at his creative best.

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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

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Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.