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  • The Third Casket
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Reclining lazily in an armchair not two yards away sat a gold-and-ivory little beauty with dark eyes and a moving, childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Third Casket (1924)The Third Casket (1924) is one of the 68 stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in the Saturday Evening Post over a seventeen-year timespan. The unique plo...
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  • Gretchen’s Forty Winks
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '’Forty days,’ she sighed. ’It seems such a long time-when everybody else is always having fun. If I could only sleep for forty days.’' - Gretchen, Gretchen’s Forty Winks, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1924) Gretchen’s Forty Winks (1924) is a short story that was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post. The story is regarded as one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s many works loose...
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  • The Unspeakable Egg
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the public was pleased to know that they were ugly monsters for all their money, and everyone was satisfied all around.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Unspeakable Egg (1924)The Unspeakable Egg (1924) is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that features ultra-rich main character Fifi, engaged to be married to a man who in her estimation is too perfect. The day before the wedding...
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  • Hot and Cold Blood
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...she went on brokenly, ’I need you. I need your strength and your health and your arms around me. And if you-if you just give it to every one, it’s spread so thin when it reaches me-’' - Jacqueline Mathers, Hot & Cold Blood, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1926) Hot & Cold Blood (1926) was originally published in a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled All th...
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  • The Vegetable
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Jerry Frost is thirty-five. He is a clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Vegetable (1923)The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman (1923) is the only play F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote and when produced was regarded by many as a disaster. The title is derived from a quote ...
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  • Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Some girls with metal knuckles were furiously insulting two punching bags on each of which was painted the leering, winking face of a ’masher.’' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (1923)Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (1923) is a short story that was originally published in Hearst’s International and resonates with some of the same themes as The Great Gatsby (1925...
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  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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  • The Beautiful and Damned
    F Scott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the rise, fall, and relationship of the main characters, which many feel are based on the author’s own life. Fitzgerald’s oozing verse, debauchery, and speedy action have made this book continue to be read through the years.'As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not wit...
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    11,97 €

  • Two for a Cent
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He had been bored with the President, he had been bored and not a little embarrassed with the duchesses-nevertheless, the two incidents had pleased him and still sat softly upon his naive vanity.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Two for a Cent (1922)Two for a Cent (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story that deviates from his romantic plotline and is the first of several he wrote ...
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  • Winter Dreams
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams (1922)Winter Dreams (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the author’s early short stories which served as a first draft of sorts for The Great Gatsby (1925) also available from Cosimo Cl...
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  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    'I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)This Side of Paradise (1920) is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, written at the tender age of twenty-three and mirroring some of Fitzgerald’s own experiences at Princeton University. This romance of the early Jazz Age is a commentary on how love can...
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  • The Cut-Glass Bowl
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920)The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in Scribner’s Magazine and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics)....
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  • Head and Shoulders
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Head and Shoulders (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics), features Horace, a Princeton academic, who falls for flapper, Marcia. Marcia’s shoulders shaking in her performances and Horace’s 'head' with his academia are the basis for the ti...
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  • Benediction
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'It’s like that idea of saving your life by losing it. You see we sort of feel that the less human a man is, in your sense of human, the better servant he can be to humanity.'-Kieth, Benediction, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920).Benediction (1920) was first published as part of a collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics) and focus...
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  • Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Cutting corners meant rejecting the old childhood principles that success came from faithfulness to duty, that evil was necessarily punished or virtue necessarily rewarded-that honest poverty was happier than corrupt riches.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920), written in September of 1919 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published i...
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  • Myra Meets His Family
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'The particular Myra whom this story concerns will have to have a paragraph of history. I will get it over with as swiftly as possible.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Myra Meets His Family (1920)Myra Meets His Family (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the author’s first stories published in the Saturday Evening Post and features Myra Harper, a twenty-something former debutante who ...
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  • The Ice Palace
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.'―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (1920)The Ice Palace (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosopher (also available from Cosimo Classics) is based on th...
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  • The Four Fists
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.' ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Four Fists (1920)The Four Fists (1920) was first published as part of a collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers (also available from Cosimo Classics) and features Samuel Meredith, a man whose face seems to be quite hittable. The fists to t...
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  • The Offshore Pirate
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.' ―Carlyle, The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920). The Offshore Pirate (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosoph...
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  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in the Saturday Evening Post and later in his short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers (also ava...
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  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse and personal writing style are fully demonstrated here.'Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.'No student of thought should...
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  • This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    Complete edition of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, written in and describing the post World War period of 1920’s America, Fitzgerald’s lyrical verse and personal writing style are fully demonstrated here.'Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.'No student of thought should...
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    10,86 €

  • The Couple
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Carrol’s arrogance, her coldness, her growing dislike for him, had been beyond endurance. He was short- tempered himself and many times in the last month their disputes had hovered on the verge of physical violence.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Couple (1920-1922)The Couple, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was written sometime between 1920 and 1922, then published posthumously as one of t...
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  • The I.O.U.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Non-fiction is a form of literature that lies half-way between fiction and fact.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The I.O.U. (1920)The I.O.U. by F. Scott Fitzgerald was written early in his professional career, submitted to Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1920, and rejected. The story, published posthumously, offers a satirical take on the publishing world and describes how publishers sensat...
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  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel and was published in 1925. It is a rags to riches tale set in 1920’s New York and revolves around the American dream by telling the story of millionaire Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman. When first published in the twenties, it received a tepid response but surged in popularity during World War ...
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  • The Baby Party
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...the very vitality of the child irritated him...and one Sunday afternoon when she had disrupted a bridge game by permanently hiding up the ace of spades, he had made a scene that had reduced his wife to tears. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Baby Party (1925) The Baby Party (1925) was first published in Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan at the height of the author’s magazine fic...
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  • The Adjuster
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...selfishness in women has an irresistible appeal to many men. Luella’s selfishness existed side by side with a childish beauty, and, in consequence, Charles Hemple had begun to take the blame upon himself for situations which she had obviously brought about.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Adjuster (1926)The Adjuster (1926) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story focused on the th...
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  • Love in the Night
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'But the question of love in the night was the thing nearest his heart...there was a lovely unknown girl concerned in it, and that it ought to take place beneath the Riviera moon.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Love in the Night (1925) Love in the Night (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in the Saturday Evening Post at the height of the author’s popularity as a magazine ...
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  • How to Live on $36,000 a Year and How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'We were going to the Old World to find a new rhythm to our lives...With a true conviction that we had left our old selves behind forever.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924) How to Live on $36,000 a Year and How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of two essays which details Fitzgerald’s attem...
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    9,10 €

  • How to Live on $36,000 a Year
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'I found one day to my horror that I didn’t have a dollar in the world...This particular crisis passed the next morning when the discovery that publishers sometimes advance royalties sent me hurriedly to mine.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924) How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an essay which details Fitzgerald’s attempt to ...
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