The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bryant Mangum, Roxana Robinson

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Modern Library Inc
15 February 2006

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

Edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar Bryant Mangum, this original compilation of Fitzgerald's best early stories includes a Foreword by Roxana Robinson, an early version of ""Winter Dreams,"" a licensed version of ""Absolution,"" new commentary, notes, and a special appendix with flapper-related essays by F. Scott and his wife Zelda.

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 historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring

characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgerald's many short stories.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Foreword by: Roxana Robinson
Edited by: Bryant Mangum
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9780812974775
ISBN 10: 0812974778
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 February 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bryant Mangum is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of A Fortune Yet- Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories. Roxana Robinson is the author of three novels, Summer Light, Sweetwater, and This Is My Daughter; a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe; and three short story collections, including A Perfect Stranger and Other Stories. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York.

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The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bryant Mangum, Roxana Robinson

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