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F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He wrote this collection of eight short stories in 1920 for magazines such as Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. This collection includes: "The Offshore Pirate", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", "Head and Shoulders", "Benediction", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "The Cut Glass Bowl", "The Four Fists", and "The Ice Palace".

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.

When The Great Gatsby failed to garner the success of his earlier novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald was thrown back on his considerable talents as a short story writer for the weekly magazines that were a staple of life in America in the 1920’s. Fitzgerald said that he labored over his novels, but the short stories came whole and complete in a kind of automatic transcription with minimal revisions needed. The Saturday Evening Post paid mightily for Fitzgerald’s output, and this income kept him and Zelda solvent during their high profile march through the Roaring 20’s. Flappers and Philosophers was Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, written before his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they deal with many of the same themes of that bright era, complete with its darker shadows born of that generation’s overt, rebellious pursuit of pleasure, and the bad seeds of greed and the hyper-consciousness of social status in a stratified post-war America.

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When The Great Gatsby failed to garner the success of his earlier novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald was thrown back on his considerable talents as a short story writer for the weekly magazines that were a staple of life in America in the 1920’s. Fitzgerald said that he labored over his novels, but the short stories came whole and complete in a kind of automatic transcription with minimal revisions needed. The Saturday Evening Post paid mightily for Fitzgerald’s output, and this income kept him and Zelda solvent during their high profile march through the Roaring 20’s. Flappers and Philosophers was Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, written before his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they deal with many of the same themes of that bright era, complete with its darker shadows born of that generation’s overt, rebellious pursuit of pleasure, and the bad seeds of greed and the hyper-consciousness of social status in a stratified post-war America.

Flappers and Philosophers is the primary set of short fiction composed by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920. It contains eight stories such as: The Offshore Pirate; The Ice Palace; Head and Shoulders; The Cut-Glass Bowl; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple Goes Wrong; and The Four Fists. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, called proficiently as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American author and short fiction writer, whose writings portrayed the Jazz Age. While he accomplished partial prestige during his life, he is presently hugely considered as a few of the best authors in the United States of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is regarded as a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He completed four stories: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, incomplete story, The Last Tycoon, was printed after his death. He also wrote 4 sets of short fiction and 164 short fiction in magazines in his time. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a higher status middle-class family, Francis was baptized after his renowned second cousin, three times omitted on his paternal side, Francis Scott Key, but was often referred to as simply Scott Fitzgerald. He was also called after his late sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, one of two sisters who died soon before he was born. "Well, three months before I was born," he jotted down as an adult, "my mother lost her other two children ... I think I started then to be a writer." His other noteworthy writings include Winter Dreams; The Baby Party both in All the Sad Young Men; The Freshest Boy in Taps at Reveille; The Bridal Party; A New Leaf; Crazy Sunday both in Babylon Revisited and Other Stories; The Vegetable, or From President to Postman – Play; The Crack-Up – Collection of essays, notebook excerpts, and letters.

First published in 1920, Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald's entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself "a master of the mechanism of short story technique" ( Boston Transcript). Several of his most beloved tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "Head and Shoulders," with their particularly O. Henry-like twists; the poignant "Benediction" and "The Cut-Glass Bowl"; and "The Offshore Pirate," the octet's opening and "most romantic story" ( The New York Times Books Review). Filtered through Fitzgerald's remarkable intensity of vision and fed by his matchless imagination, these tales shimmer with the exuberance of youth during the Jazz Age. On the heels of his triumphant This Side of Paradise, the novel that transformed a gifted young writer into a literary sensation, this sublime short story collection plumbs the depths of human feeling with a perspicacity that is quintessential Fitzgerald.

How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedAbout Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and 'The Lost Decade', written in Fitzgerald's last years. It also includes: "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", "The Four Fists".