F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940

Portrait

Biographical note

Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. The self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation" — the Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I — crafted five novels and dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age with remarkable emotional honesty.

Works

Novels

  • This Side of Paradise [1920]
  • The Beautiful and Damned [1922]
  • The Great Gatsby [1925]
  • Tender is the Night [1934]
  • The Last Tycoon [1941] (Unfinished)

Short Stories

  • Flappers and Philosophers [1920]
    • The Offshore Pirate
    • The Ice Palace
    • Head and Shoulders
    • The Cut-Glass Bowl
    • Bernice Bobs Her Hair
    • Benediction
    • Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
    • The Four Fists
  • Tales of the Jazz Age [1922]
    • My Last Flappers
      • The Jelly-bean.
      • The Camel’s Back
      • May Day
      • Porcelain and Pink
    • Fantasies
      • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
      • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
      • Tarquin of Cheapside
      • The Legend of Britomartis or of Chastity
      • “O Russet Witch!”
    • Unclassified Masterpieces
      • The Lees of Happiness
      • Mr. Icky: The Quintessence of Quaintness in One Act
      • Jemina, the Mountain Girl
  • All the Sad Young Men [1926]
    1. The Rich Boy
    2. Winter Dreams
    3. The Baby Party
    4. Absolution
    5. Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
    6. The Adjuster
    7. Hot and Cold Blood
    8. “The Sensible Thing”
    9. Gretchen’s Forty Winks
  • Taps at Reveille [1935]
    1. The Scandal Detectives
    2. Basil: The Freshest Boy
    3. He Thinks He’s Wonderful
    4. The Captured Shadow
    5. The Perfect Life
    6. First Blood
    7. A Nice Quiet Place
    8. Josephine: A Woman with a Past
    9. Crazy Sunday
    10. Two Wrongs
    11. The Night at Chancellorsville
    12. The Last of the Belles
    13. Majesty
    14. Family in the Wind
    15. A Short Trip Home
    16. One Interne
    17. The Fiend
    18. Babylon Revisited
  • The Pat Hobby stories [1941]
    • Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish
    • A Man in the Way
    • "Boil Some Water--Lots of It"
    • Teamed with Genius
    • Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
    • Pat Hobby's Secret
    • Pat Hobby, Putative Father
    • The Homes of the Stars
    • Pat Hobby Does His Bit
    • Pat Hobby's Preview
    • No Harm Trying
    • A Patriotic Short
    • On the Trail of Pat Hobby
    • Fun in an Artist's Studio
    • Two Old-Timers
    • Mightier Than the Sword
    • Pat Hobby's College Days
  • Short Stories
    1. Winter Dreams
    2. Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar
    3. Gretchen’s Forty Winks
    4. Absolution
    5. Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
    6. “The Sensible Thing”
    7. The Baby Party
    8. Love in the Night
    9. The Rich Boy
    10. Jacob’s Ladder
    11. A Short Trip Home
    12. The Bowl
    13. Magnetism
    14. The Scandal Detectives
    15. A Night at the Fair
    16. Basil: The Freshest Boy
    17. He Thinks He’s Wonderful
    18. Outside the Cabinet-Maker’s
    19. The Captured Shadow
    20. The Perfect Life
    21. Forging Ahead
    22. Basil and Cleopatra
    23. The Last of the Belles
    24. The Rough Crossing
    25. Majesty
    26. At Your Age
    27. The Swimmers
    28. Two Wrongs
    29. First Blood
    30. A Nice Quiet Place
    31. The Bridal Party
    32. Josephine: A Woman with a Past
    33. One Trip Abroad
    34. The Hotel Child
    35. Babylon Revisited
    36. A New Leaf
    37. Emotional Bankruptcy
    38. A Freeze-Out
    39. Six of One —
    40. Family in the Wind
    41. What a Handsome Pair!
    42. Crazy Sunday
    43. One Interne
    44. More Than Just a House
    45. The Fiend
    46. The Night at Chancellorsville
    47. Afternoon of an Author
    48. “I Didn’t Get Over”
    49. An Alcoholic Case
    50. Financing Finnegan
    51. Design in Plaster
    52. The Lost Decade
    53. Three Hours Between Planes
    54. News of Paris — Fifteen Years Ago
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