A woman on a trip to Florida falls in love with the captain of the pirates who capture her. This is the first story that develops Fitzgerald's recurrent plot idea of a heroine won by her lover's performance of an extraordinary deed.

A young, prospective intellectual, completely absorbed in his studies, is shown another side of life by an actress, leading everything to turn on its head.

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper’s...

Selected Short Stories is a collection of some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable and thought-provoking works. Published in 1931, the collection includes several of his best-known stories, such as "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These stories explore themes of social class, love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Fitzgerald's writing style is characterized...

Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams-to one day be as elite as the "old-money" families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones. First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby. It is his most popular and...

Durante décadas, y acercándose a su centenario, El gran Gatsby ha sido considerada una obra maestra de la literatura y candidata al título de Gran novela americana por su dominio al mostrar la pura identidad americana junto a un estilo distinto y maduro. La historia se desarrolla en la era del jazz americana en Long Island y New York y, con una narrativa que no da respiro al lector, nos presenta la vida de millonarios y socialites de la época,...

It was clear to anyone who knew F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was destined to be a great writer. His early work won accolades from his professors and was published in Yale's literary Journal as well as other outlets. These stories show that even before his Yale days Ftizgerald was already exploring themes and subjects that would one day make him a legend. Included here are seventeen stories, a one act play and three poems. This is the most complete...

"Head and Shoulders" is the story of what happens when Yale philosopher Horace Tarbox-the "head"-answers the door to Vaudeville star Marcia-the "shoulders." Marcia's performance is but the first step in an astonishing role reversal that will prove, "...when you [open] the door at the rap of life, you let in many things." "Head and Shoulders" was collected in Flappers and Philosophers (1920), and is resonant with many of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most...

When Perry Parkhurst decides that his long-time engagement to Betty Medill has gone on long enough, he presents her with a marriage license and an ultimatum: get married immediately or end the relationship all-together. But things don't go quite as well as Perry expected, and the two end up parting ways for good. Perry decides to drown his sorrows and soon ends up attending the same costume party as Betty, dressed in an elaborate camel costume. "The...

This 1922 short story, 'Winter Dreams', encapsulates the Jazz Age. With themes of unrequited love and self-made success, F. Scott Fitzgerald used this elegiac short story as the basis for his masterful novel The Great Gatsby (1925). Dexter Green is the son of a middle-class grocery store owner. To earn money, he starts working as a golf caddie and it is on the golf course that he meets the beautiful socialite Judy Jones. Several years later, after...