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It's summertime, and the young, popular crowd, home from prep school and college, are looking to have fun. Unfortunately for Marjorie Harvey, her dull cousin Bernice is visiting for a month. Even though Marjorie is one of the most popular girls in town, nobody wants to hang out with poor Bernice, whose conversation is mostly limited to painfully awkward inquiries about the weather.

Beautiful yet socially naïve. Bernice lets her witty cousin boss her around, but at last, it is her time to shine. Bernice Bobs Her Hair is a short tale created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 and first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year. It was seen right away in the compilation Flappers and Philosophers. The novel was in reference to the letters Fitzgerald addressed to his younger sister, Annabel, telling her on how to be more beautiful to young men. The earlier context was much lengthier, but Fitzgerald remove about 3000 words and altered the last part to make the novel more delightful to readers. 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."

Based on actual letters Fitzgerald sent to his sister to help her on how to be more attractive for men, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is the story of a socially hopeless girl being changed into a socially attractive girl to end up attracting the boy of her helper.The story is a depiction of the changing face of youth during Fitzgerald's time and has been adapted into several movies as it remains a story that impressed all readers over the years.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Francis Scott Fitzgerald Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt’s house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she’s putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesn’t know how to act at parties, so with her cousin’s help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hair—the trademark of the “liberated” woman of the time. However, as Bernice descends deeper into her new lifestyle, the fickle nature of the social scene becomes increasingly evident. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” based on letters he had sent to his younger sister providing similar advice on how to become a more attractive society girl. It was originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920.

Based on actual letters Fitzgerald sent to his sister to help her on how to be more attractive for men, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is the story of a socially hopeless girl being changed into a socially attractive girl to end up attracting the boy of her helper.The story is a depiction of the changing face of youth during Fitzgerald's time and has been adapted into several movies as it remains a story that impressed all readers over the years.

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Bernice Bobs Her Hair by Francis Scott Fitzgerald Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt’s house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she’s putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesn’t know how to act at parties, so with her cousin’s help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hair—the trademark of the “liberated” woman of the time. However, as Bernice descends deeper into her new lifestyle, the fickle nature of the social scene becomes increasingly evident. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” based on letters he had sent to his younger sister providing similar advice on how to become a more attractive society girl. It was originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920.

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-course and see the country-club windows as a yellow expanse over a very black and wavy ocean. The waves of this ocean, so to speak, were the heads of many curious caddies, a few of the more ingenious chauffeurs, the golf professional's deaf sister—and there were usually several stray, diffident waves who might have rolled inside had they so desired. This was the gallery. The balcony was inside. It consisted of the circle of wicker chairs that lined the wall of the combination clubroom and ballroom. At these Saturday-night dances it was largely feminine; a great babel of middle-aged ladies with sharp eyes and icy hearts behind lorgnettes and large bosoms. The main function of the balcony was critical, it occasionally showed grudging admiration, but never approval, for it is well known among ladies over thirty-five that when the younger set dance in the summer-time it is with the very worst intentions in the world, and if they are not bombarded with stony eyes stray couples will dance weird barbaric interludes in the corners, and the more popular, more dangerous, girls will sometimes be kissed in the parked limousines of unsuspecting dowagers...

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year. The story was illustrated by May Wilson Preston. The story appeared shortly thereafter on September 10, 1920, in Fitzgerald's anthology Flappers and Philosophers. In 1951, decades after its publication, literary critic Orville Prescott of The New York Times cited the work as a landmark story that set social standards for a generation of young Americans, that revealed secrets of popularity and gave wonderful examples of what to say at a dinner table or on the dance floor.