F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Anthony Patch expects to inherit millions from his grandfather in the 1920s, and when he and his wife spend without restraint, they do not receive the inheritance.

The first short story collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Flappers and Philosophers" was originally published in 1920. The eight stories of the collection are set in the era for which the author is best known, the Jazz Age, a term Fitzgerald himself coined. While perhaps best known for his novels, Fitzgerald was a prolific and accomplished short story writer and found the most fame and fortune during his career in writing short stories for magazines,...

A newlywed young woman and her short story-writing husband begin married life in a home of their own. When tragedy strikes, a friend comes to their aid.

A teenager from a small Mississippi River town is, sent to a private boarding school near Boston, surrounded by wealthy classmates, but has a secret that would amaze them all.

"Francis Scott Fitzgerald decía que la vida es un asunto romántico y por eso seguramente logró maravillarnos con uno de los personajes más perdedores y, al mismo tiempo, más triunfadores y soñadores que ha dado la literatura por libros como El gran Gatsby. Jay Gatsby es el nuevo héroe del siglo XX, hecho a sí mismo sin demasiados escrúpulos. Es un fronterizo, un aventurero, pero también un román - tico, alguien capaz de arriesgarse hasta...

A woman on a trip to Florida falls in love with the captain of the pirates who capture her. This is the first story that develops Fitzgerald's recurrent plot idea of a heroine won by her lover's performance of an extraordinary deed.

A woman wants to find a wealthy man to marry finds a lot more than she bargains, for when she enters the abode of Knowleton Whitney, who, in turn, finds a lot more than he bargained for.

"Oh, yes, coming out is such a farce nowadays, you know. One really plays around so much, before one is seventeen, that it's positively anticlimax."

A wealthy girl visits her cousin for a month, and lets her turn her into a society girl.