The Intimate Strangers and Other Stories

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Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again against the wishes of her in-laws and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, The Intimate Strangers explores many of Fitzgeralds favourite themes, such as the constraints of society on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

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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.