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The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
This ebook contains F. Scott Fitzgerald's complete works.This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.
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First published May 25, 2008
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,190 books25.4k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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June 20, 2019
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes me want to kill myself. I mean that as a compliment.
November 30, 2021
I've always loved F. Scott
July 21, 2025
Severely underrated; Loved every story💞
August 6, 2013
The book I'm reading is a collection which claims to contain the following titles:
1. This Side of Paradise [1920]
2. The Beautiful and Damned [1922]
3. The Great Gatsby [1925]
4. Tender is the Night [1934]
5. Flappers and Philosophers [1920]
6. Tales of the Jazz Age [1922]
7. All the Sad Young Men [1926]
8. Taps at Reveille [1935]
9. The Pat Hobby stories [1941]
Each of the short stories has it's own publication date and place. This is a monstrously long collection. I should get bonus points or something. lol
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This is such a huge project that I'm sort of reviewing as I'm going along. I really was only familiar with "The Great Gatsby" and some excerpts of other pieces before I started this collection. I'm ashamed to say the last time I read Gatsby was in school.
Having read now through "The Beautiful and the Damned," I like Fitzgerald's wit and he has a real talent for descriptions. So far he seems to have a very low opinion of women, though. They are mostly minor or negative characters. Perhaps this will change, I'm only 23% of the way through the collection. There has also been a feeling of anti-Christianity by his characters at least. It's hard to tell how he feels because he writes about people he seems to like very little. They are chiefly lazy, bored, selfish, and vain. I loved the parts where he writes about writing.
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"Flappers and Philosophers" had a more ... upbeat feeling to it. The stories were clever, ironic, and witty. Some of them still had tragic moments - but the collection as a whole seemed of a lighter nature.
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I'm 74% of the way through the book now (I know - an inch worm could go faster) and I can see why Gatsby stands out. It is more . . . polished than some of the other works -- and the character development seems deeper.
There isn't a whole lot new to say about the book/his writing at this point.
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Finally finished. I couldn't connect very well with the characters at times. They seemed like actors in a scene -- moving about but not really connecting with anything. It's ironic really because Fitzgerald uses a similar description for how people at a certain party were behaving.
Sometimes it seemed as if the characters only reacted to other people -- like the balls in a pinball machine -- they really only came alive or had any emotions in response to other characters. They were merely existing in between moments.
I found it really sad that many of his stories were based on himself and his wife.
1. This Side of Paradise [1920]
2. The Beautiful and Damned [1922]
3. The Great Gatsby [1925]
4. Tender is the Night [1934]
5. Flappers and Philosophers [1920]
6. Tales of the Jazz Age [1922]
7. All the Sad Young Men [1926]
8. Taps at Reveille [1935]
9. The Pat Hobby stories [1941]
Each of the short stories has it's own publication date and place. This is a monstrously long collection. I should get bonus points or something. lol
~~~
This is such a huge project that I'm sort of reviewing as I'm going along. I really was only familiar with "The Great Gatsby" and some excerpts of other pieces before I started this collection. I'm ashamed to say the last time I read Gatsby was in school.
Having read now through "The Beautiful and the Damned," I like Fitzgerald's wit and he has a real talent for descriptions. So far he seems to have a very low opinion of women, though. They are mostly minor or negative characters. Perhaps this will change, I'm only 23% of the way through the collection. There has also been a feeling of anti-Christianity by his characters at least. It's hard to tell how he feels because he writes about people he seems to like very little. They are chiefly lazy, bored, selfish, and vain. I loved the parts where he writes about writing.
~~~
"Flappers and Philosophers" had a more ... upbeat feeling to it. The stories were clever, ironic, and witty. Some of them still had tragic moments - but the collection as a whole seemed of a lighter nature.
~~~~~
I'm 74% of the way through the book now (I know - an inch worm could go faster) and I can see why Gatsby stands out. It is more . . . polished than some of the other works -- and the character development seems deeper.
There isn't a whole lot new to say about the book/his writing at this point.
~~~~~
Finally finished. I couldn't connect very well with the characters at times. They seemed like actors in a scene -- moving about but not really connecting with anything. It's ironic really because Fitzgerald uses a similar description for how people at a certain party were behaving.
Sometimes it seemed as if the characters only reacted to other people -- like the balls in a pinball machine -- they really only came alive or had any emotions in response to other characters. They were merely existing in between moments.
I found it really sad that many of his stories were based on himself and his wife.
October 8, 2022
Scott Fitzgerald is my favorite author. Getting his complete works for $3 was an offer I couldn't refuse. I guess his work is all in the public domain now, since Zelda and Scotty are long dead. It's been said that The Great Gatsby is the great American novel, and I have to agree. The sheer poetry of his description and the utter romance of his viewpoint make it memorable.
I also love several of his short stories, including "The Freshest Boy" and especially the Basil stories. I think "A Night at the Fair" is one of the best stories I've ever read, esp. when Basil ditches Ripley Bucknor and Elwood Leaming and the hopeless girl Elwood has brought along for a date for Basil, and Basil goes to sit with Gladys Shellinger, the most carefully brought-up girl in Minneapolis. After he sees the ridiculous procession of his erstwhile friends led by the impossible Hubert Blair at the air show, he goes home with Gladys, only to have her ask him if next time he could bring along Hubert Blair. (I know that's a spoiler, but read the short story; it's too fabulously and comically written to have the plot be important.)
I'm going to be dipping into this collection for weeks to come, and enjoying it tremendously.
I also love several of his short stories, including "The Freshest Boy" and especially the Basil stories. I think "A Night at the Fair" is one of the best stories I've ever read, esp. when Basil ditches Ripley Bucknor and Elwood Leaming and the hopeless girl Elwood has brought along for a date for Basil, and Basil goes to sit with Gladys Shellinger, the most carefully brought-up girl in Minneapolis. After he sees the ridiculous procession of his erstwhile friends led by the impossible Hubert Blair at the air show, he goes home with Gladys, only to have her ask him if next time he could bring along Hubert Blair. (I know that's a spoiler, but read the short story; it's too fabulously and comically written to have the plot be important.)
I'm going to be dipping into this collection for weeks to come, and enjoying it tremendously.
March 29, 2018
What an incredible talent. What an incredible life. What an incredible era. I have become obsessed with this era and the writers. I hadn’t realized F Scott wrote Benjamin Button.
His short stories were fascinating! I digress but I have read books on Zelda as well. She was amazing on her own and struggled under his fame and personality
His short stories were fascinating! I digress but I have read books on Zelda as well. She was amazing on her own and struggled under his fame and personality
September 11, 2018
I have been reading this collection over several months, and I loved it. I had already read The Great Gatsby, but the other stories were new to me. Of the novels, I think Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon were my favourites; however, I enjoyed them all. The short stories were also excellent. Overall, this is a delightful collection and a must for any library shelf.
May 31, 2017
This is an excellent book for any Fitzgerald fan. The novels are great and the collected short stories are some of Fitzgerald's more mature works, albeit a bit repetitive at times. A long read, but if you like his writing it's worth it.
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October 29, 2020This was super interesting. Everyone is always quoting Fitzgerald and saying he's one of the greats hands down. People rave about Zelda too, though she was so much lesser known. I found this to be enlightening and entertaining. It gave me more perspective into the hype without buying into it.
July 2, 2024
Some stories were somewhat interesting but I don't really mesh with his writing style. I DNF'ed The Beautiful and Damned, and for some reason, though the books front says it contains the story of The Dimond as Big as the Rits, that story is not in the book.
July 26, 2018
Delightful.Like a fresh breeze.
December 23, 2018
Only read TGG - will tackle more of this collection at a later date.
February 5, 2019
A great book to have if you love Fitzgerald and revisit over the years.
September 16, 2019
Not completely read yet but I just wanted to read some more of his short stories as I find them easier to get through than his novels
April 19, 2023
A wonderful copulation of short stories in one ebook. I enjoyed most of the stories.
Some put a smile on my face, others made me think, and some I didn't like.
Definitely worth reading, though.
Some put a smile on my face, others made me think, and some I didn't like.
Definitely worth reading, though.
August 18, 2024
Non l’ho finito, ma non ne potevo più di averlo sullo scaffale…tanto, ai tempi, li ho letti tutti…
February 20, 2017
Review Book 16 Reading Challenge ‘This Side of Paradise’ F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 Classic
I read this story after watching an Amazon Prime TV series ‘Z-The Beginning of Everything’ about the author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald the first flapper in the era of Jazz USA.
Not really a great fan of the classics I thought I might like to give this a try, there were some wonderful lyrical passages but being set in the US in bygone days it was difficult at times to understand their ways. Below is one of my favourite passages when the main character Armory Blaine is walking in the moonlight with a new love the wild Eleanor.
‘One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairy-land with Amory and Eleanor, dim phantasmal shapes, expressing eternal beauty in curious elfin love moods. Then they turned out of the moonlight into the trellised darkness of a vine-hung pagoda, where there were scents of plaintive as to be nearly musical.’
I read this story after watching an Amazon Prime TV series ‘Z-The Beginning of Everything’ about the author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald the first flapper in the era of Jazz USA.
Not really a great fan of the classics I thought I might like to give this a try, there were some wonderful lyrical passages but being set in the US in bygone days it was difficult at times to understand their ways. Below is one of my favourite passages when the main character Armory Blaine is walking in the moonlight with a new love the wild Eleanor.
‘One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairy-land with Amory and Eleanor, dim phantasmal shapes, expressing eternal beauty in curious elfin love moods. Then they turned out of the moonlight into the trellised darkness of a vine-hung pagoda, where there were scents of plaintive as to be nearly musical.’
October 10, 2012
The stories? Exercises in mediocrity, done for money and published in periodicals like the Saturday Evening Post. On the covers of that magazine were illustrations by Norman Rockwell. These are Norman Rockwell quality stories, but then Fitzgerald never claimed they were literature. I got bored with the stories and haven't read This Side of Paradise, included in this collection, yet. May go back to it at some point.
January 29, 2014
I do audiobooks -- can't see to physically read a text. So I rely heavily on the quality of the narrator. I understand the choice of this narrator, and I'm sure he gets the tone exactly as it should be, but I simply can't listen to the simpering droll tone he affects in order to convey the tone of the idle rich that this author so clearly disdains.
I have picked it up and given up a dozen times. I simply dn't know if I can finish it.
I have picked it up and given up a dozen times. I simply dn't know if I can finish it.
August 10, 2010
Love him!
November 8, 2012
Wondeful
March 20, 2018
Very good collection of a great writer. However, did his wife write it?
February 7, 2019
What's the big deal?
February 2, 2021
I re-read The Great Gadsby. Yes, it is the great American Novel.
August 26, 2021
Big fan of this bloke. Classic novels, but also some really great short stories.
October 25, 2021
Feel smart
American literature at its very best. If you want to know what it's like to live the American experience then read FSF
American literature at its very best. If you want to know what it's like to live the American experience then read FSF
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July 6, 2017did't finish
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