The Short Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald

These stories gather the shorter work Fitzgerald produced at the height of his early fame, when magazines like The Saturday Evening Post paid handsomely for his portraits of restless youth. Flappers, debutantes, ambitious young men, and fading beauties move through country clubs and city apartments, chasing love, money, and status in the bright, unsteady years after the First World War. Alongside light comedies of courtship sit sharper pieces about class, self-deception, and the price of wanting too much. Written across the 1920s, they show the same lyric gift and social insight that made his novels famous, in a form he could turn out quickly and brilliantly. Collected here for free as a PDF and EPUB edition.