Books with title Flappers and Philosophers

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea—if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About half-way between the Florida shore and the golden collar a white steam-yacht, very young and graceful, was riding at anchor and under a blue-and-white awning aft a yellow-haired girl reclined in a wicker settee reading The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HEAD AND SHOULDERS In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A— excellent—in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry. Two years later, while George M. Cohan was composing "Over There," Horace was leading the sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on "The Syllogism as an Obsolete Scholastic Form," and during the battle of Chateau-Thierry he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his seventeenth birthday before beginning his series of essays on "The Pragmatic Bias of the New Realists." After a while some newsboy told him that the war was over, and he was glad, because it meant that Peat Brothers, publishers, would get out their new edition of "Spinoza's Improvement of the Understanding." Wars were all very well in their way, made young men self-reliant or something, but Horace felt that he could never forgive the President for allowing a brass band to play under his window on the night of the false armistice, causing him to leave three important sentences out of his thesis on "German Idealism." The next year he went up to Yale to take his degree as Master of Arts. He was seventeen then, tall and slender, with near-sighted gray eyes and an air of keeping himself utterly detached from the mere words he let drop. "I never feel as though I'm talking to him," expostulated Professor Dillinger to a sympathetic colleague. "He makes me feel as though I were talking to his representative. I always expect him to say: 'Well, I'll ask myself and find out.'" And then, just as nonchalantly as though Horace Tarbox had been Mr. Beef the butcher or Mr. Hat the haberdasher, life reach...

I This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea—if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About half-way between the Florida shore and the golden collar a white steam-yacht, very young and graceful, was riding at anchor and under a blue-and-white awning aft a yellow-haired girl reclined in a wicker settee reading The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France. She was about nineteen, slender and supple, with a spoiled alluring mouth and quick gray eyes full of a radiant curiosity. Her feet, stockingless, and adorned rather than clad in blue-satin slippers which swung nonchalantly from her toes, were perched on the arm of a settee adjoining the one she occupied. And as she read she intermittently regaled herself by a faint application to her tongue of a half-lemon that she held in her hand. The other half, sucked dry, lay on the deck at her feet and rocked very gently to and fro at the almost imperceptible motion of the tide. The second half-lemon was well-nigh pulpless and the golden collar had grown astonishing in width, when suddenly the drowsy silence which enveloped the yacht was broken by the sound of heavy footsteps and an elderly man topped with orderly gray hair and clad in a white-flannel suit appeared at the head of the companionway. There he paused for a moment until his eyes became accustomed to the sun, and then seeing the girl under the awning he uttered a long even grunt of disapproval.

Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: The Offshore Pirate; The Ice Palace; Head and Shoulders; The Cut-Glass Bowl; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple Goes Wrong; The Four Fists. Covering some of 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'. It is a collection of masterful short works from an American literary icon that led The New York Times Book Review to note that no one can fail to recognize Mr. Fitzgerald's talent and genius. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.

Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first collection. Today Fitzgerald is known primarily for writing the great American novel The Great Gatsby, but during his lifetime he was much better known for his short stories. After reading this wonderful collection you’ll understand why. Few writers have ever been capable of such a breadth of range as Fitzgerald displays here. Witty, cutting, insightful, and charming!

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.

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.