The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3432 en 1922 Short Fiction The story tells of John T. Unger, a teenager from the town of Hades, Mississippi, who was sent to a private boarding school in Boston. During the summer he would visit the homes of his classmates, the vast majority of whom were from wealthy families. In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington was placed in Unger's form. He would speak only to Unger, and then very rarely, but invited him for the summer to his home, the location of which he would only state as being "in the West", an invitation Unger accepted. During the train ride Percy boasted that his father was "by far the richest man in the world", and when challenged by Unger boasted that his father "has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel." 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The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi Emotional Bankruptcy Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1127 en 1931 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1127.mobi The Rich Boy Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1153 urn:isbn:1843914123 en 1926 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1153.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1153.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1153.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1153.mobi Love in the Night Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1142 en 1925 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1142.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1142.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1142.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1142.mobi Tarquin of Cheapside Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3433 en 1921 Short Fiction This short story was first published in the "Smart Set" in 1921, although it had been written 5 years previous. It was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Written almost six years ago, this story is a product of undergraduate days at Princeton. Considerably revised, it was published in the "Smart Set" in 1921. At the time of its conception I had but one idea—to be a poet—and the fact that I was interested in the ring of every phrase, that I dreaded the obvious in prose if not in plot, shows throughout. Probably the peculiar affection I feel for it depends more upon its age than upon any intrinsic merit." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3433.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3433.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3433.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3433.mobi Josephine: A Woman With A Past Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1139 en 1930 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1139.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1139.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1139.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1139.mobi Jacob's Ladder Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1138 en 1927 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1138.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1138.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1138.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1138.mobi The Jelly Bean Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3439 en 1922 Short Fiction Originally published in the periodical The Metropolitan, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "This is a Southern story, with the scene laid in the small Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. I have a profound affection for Tarleton, but somehow whenever I write a story about it I receive letters from all over the South denouncing me in no uncertain terms. "The Jelly-Bean," published in "The Metropolitan," drew its full share of these admonitory notes. It was written under strange circumstances shortly after my first novel was published, and, moreover, it was the first story in which I had a collaborator. For, finding that I was unable to manage the crap-shooting episode, I turned it over to my wife, who, as a Southern girl, was presumably an expert on the technique and terminology of that great sectional pastime." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3439.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3439.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3439.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3439.mobi May Day Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3441 en 1920 Short Fiction This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they were unrelated, except by the general hysteria of that spring which inaugurated the Age of Jazz, but in my story I have tried, unsuccessfully I fear, to weave them into a pattern—a pattern which would give the effect of those months in New York as they appeared to at least one member of what was then the younger generation. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3441.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3441.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3441.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3441.mobi Porcelain and Pink Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3442 en 1922 Short Fiction Plays First published in the "Smart Set", and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "And do you write for any other magazines?" inquired the young lady. "Oh, yes," I assured her. "I've had some stories and plays in the 'Smart Set,' for instance———" The young lady shivered. "The 'Smart Set'!" she exclaimed. "How can you? Why, they publish stuff about girls in blue bathtubs, and silly things like that" And I had the magnificent joy of telling her that she was referring to "Porcelain and Pink," which had appeared there several months before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3442.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3442.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3442.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3442.mobi First Blood Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1131 en 1930 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1131.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1131.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1131.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1131.mobi The Camel's Back Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3440 en 1920 Short Fiction Originally published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1920, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement. As to the labor involved, it was written during one day in the city of New Orleans, with the express purpose of buying a platinum and diamond wrist watch which cost six hundred dollars. I began it at seven in the morning and finished it at two o'clock the same night. It was published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1920, and later included in the O. Henry Memorial Collection for the same year. I like it least of all the stories in this volume. My amusement was derived from the fact that the camel part of the story is literally true; in fact, I have a standing engagement with the gentleman involved to attend the next fancy-dress party to which we are mutually invited, attired as the latter part of the camel—this as a sort of atonement for being his historian." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3440.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3440.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3440.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3440.mobi The Lees of Happiness Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3435 en 1922 Short Fiction This short story was first published in the "Chicago Tribune," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it. It appeared in the "Chicago Tribune," and later obtained, I believe, the quadruple gold laurel leaf or some such encomium from one of the anthologists who at present swarm among us. The gentleman I refer to runs as a rule to stark melodramas with a volcano or the ghost of John Paul Jones in the role of Nemesis, melodramas carefully disguised by early paragraphs in Jamesian manner which hint dark and subtle complexities to follow. On this order: "The case of Shaw McPhee, curiously enough, had no hearing on the almost incredible attitude of Martin Sulo. This is parenthetical and, to at least three observers, whose names for the present I must conceal, it seems improbable, etc., etc., etc.," until the poor rat of fiction is at last forced out into the open and the melodrama begins." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3435.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3435.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3435.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3435.mobi The Pat Hobby Stories Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168 urn:isbn:0684804425 en 1940 Short Fiction Collections The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.mobi Afternoon of an Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1112 en 1936 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1112.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1112.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1112.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1112.mobi Absolution Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1111 en 1924 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1111.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1111.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1111.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1111.mobi "The Sensible Thing" Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1156 en 1924 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1156.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1156.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1156.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1156.mobi Mr. Icky Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3443 en 1922 Short Fiction Plays This has the distinction of being the only magazine piece ever written in a New York hotel. The business was done in a bedroom in the Knickerbocker, and shortly afterward that memorable hostelry closed its doors forever. When a fitting period of mourning had elapsed it was published in the "Smart Set." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3443.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3443.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3443.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3443.mobi Winter Dreams Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1162 en 1922 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1162.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1162.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1162.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1162.mobi