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Flappers and Philosophers: Stories

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Full Title:

Flappers and Philosophers: Stories

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780307474520

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Vintage Books

Publication Date:

15th March 2010

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 132mm, Height 203mm, Spine 18mm

Weight:

221g

Description

All the glamour and cynicism of the dawning Jazz Age are on display in F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut story collection. FIRST TIME IN VINTAGE. Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald's sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writer's entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Ice Palace," "Head and Shoulders," and "The Offshore Pirate." In these pages we meet Fitzgerald's trademark characters- the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern- the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down by a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whose weapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors. An instant classic in its time, a confirmed part of the canon today, this collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era.

Reviews

Fitzgerald is a master of the American short story.
The Philadelphia Inquirer

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterflys wings.
Ernest Hemingway

Author Bio

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896 and died in 1940.

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