Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)

BOOK: Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

(1896-1940)

Contents

The Novels

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

THE GREAT GATSBY

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON

The Short Story Collections

FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS

TALES FROM THE JAZZ AGE

ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN

TAPS AT REVEILLE

THE PAT HOBBY STORIES

MISCELLANEOUS STORIES

The Short Stories

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SHORT STORIES

The Plays and Screenplays

THE GIRL FROM LAZY J

THE CAPTURED SHADOW

COWARD

ASSORTED SPIRITS

SHADOW LAURELS

PORCELAIN AND PINK

MR. ICKY

THE VEGETABLE,

“SEND ME IN, COACH”

THREE COMRADES

INFIDELITY

The Poetry

LIST OF POETRY

The Non-Fiction

LIST OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

The Letters

LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS

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Delphi Classics 2012

Version 2

 

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

 

 

The Novels

 

 

Fitzgerald’s birthplace - St. Paul, Minnesota

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE

 

 

Fitzgerald’s first novel was published in 1920, taking its title from the Rupert Brooke poem
Tiare Tahiti
.  The novel examines the society issues facing American youths in the aftermath of World War I.  The protagonist Amory Blaine is a Princeton student who dabbles in literature. The novel sold out in three days, earning Fitzgerald overnight fame. On March 30, four days after publication and one day after selling out the first printing, Scott wired for Zelda, a young lady with whom he was infatuated and wanted to impress, to come to New York and get married that weekend. Barely a week after publication, Zelda and Scott married in New York on April 3, 1920.  The novel went through 12 printings in 1920 and 1921, for a total of 49,075 copies.

 

The first edition

 

 

 

Fitzgerald, aged three

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE — The Romantic Egotist

CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice

CHAPTER 2. Spires and Gargoyles

CHAPTER 3. The Egotist Considers

CHAPTER 4. Narcissus Off Duty

INTERLUDE

BOOK TWO — The Education of a Personage

CHAPTER 1. The Debutante

CHAPTER 2. Experiments in Convalescence

CHAPTER 3. Young Irony

CHAPTER 4. The Supercilious Sacrifice

CHAPTER 5. The Egotist Becomes a Personage

 

 

Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, soon after publication

BOOK ONE — The Romantic Egotist

 

 

CHAPTER 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice

 

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O’Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family’s life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in “taking care” of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn’t and couldn’t understand her.

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