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last Fitzgerald book I shall be reviewing for a while, due largely in part to having finished them all, the Penguin edition of Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of fortyfive short stories cherry picked from various compilations.
These include Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, All the Sad Young Men, Taps at Reveilleand some uncollected stories, As Sarah Churchwell astutely points out in her introduction to the volume, the prevalent themes range from 'ambition, hope, illusion and romance through sexual and professional jealousy, extravagance, waste and 'dissipation' to 'crackup', disintegration, failure, madness and death.
' Whilst many of the tales deal with similar motifs, they were entertaining enough to sustain my interest, even if it did sometimes feel like I was reading the same story with different characters.
In terms of quality, the stories present a very mixed bag, Some of Fitzgerald's more famous ones, such as 'The Cut Glass Bowl' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' were instant classics, whilst others, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' for example, were real stinkers.


Overall, I preferred the earlier stories, not so much for their lighter tone but for the more fanciful, romantic and imaginative fantasy worlds they portrayed, The difficulty with reviewing a collection of short stories lies principally in not being able to adequately address each one, As such, they must be lumped into crude categories, Section one contains the fresher, more hopeful tales, some of which would be republished in later years, These were the ones I most enjoyed reading and which left the greatest impressions in my mind, The more sombre second batch centres on disappointed opportunities and the collapse of relationships, Favourites from these included 'Gretchen's Forty Winks', 'The Baby Party' and 'The Rough Crossing, ' The last section follows the exploits of the shabby Pat Hobby, a Hollywood script writer down on his luck in a money hungry industry, Despite the ready humour and sly satire, I found these tales tedious to get through, particularly given the large number of them, As has been mentioned in previous reviews, Fitzgerald writes at his best when focusing on the recklessness of gilded youth and the consequences which follow,

In an umbrella analysis of Fitzgerald's work, I would be so bold as to suggest that his shorter pieces are substantially more powerful than his longer novels.
Nowhere is this seen better than in The Great Gatsby, which for all its brevity and hype remains my personal favourite, Fitzgerald's stories are best interpreted as an encapsulation of the moral and social zeitgeist in which they're set, Location and more importantly time, are in my opinion, inseparable to his works, It is with a sense of exhaustion that I reach the temporary end there may very well be another collection in the works of my Fitzgerald marathon, It has kept me occupied for some seven months and as a result, much of the writer's vernacular must no doubt have crept into my own, A fun and riotous ride, one on which I am bound to reembark after sobering up, With the taste of hiballs on my lips and disillusionment in my heart, I turn my eyes to old favourites, I recommend Flappers and Philosophers to those interested in reading fun, powerful and provocative stories, without the commitment of taking on a whole novel, For further recommendations on which stories in the collection to read and which to avoid, please do not hesitate to ask, It's Fitzgerald. It's obviously going to be amazing, My personal bible when I want to write short stories about the pretentious rich upper class, Flappers and Philosophers is, to me, Fitzgerald at his best, Through each story he manages to describe and construct because the word is certainly constructing a set of characters with defined personalities, I will always be specially fond of this book precisely because of how he skillfully captures high society and its people, Read this is one sitting, I enjoyed the stories, but some of the language is out dated and tough to get through, Overall a fun read. With most short story collections: there are stories that I like, some that I don't, and a few that I love,

Favourite Quotes:

The IcePalace:
"She kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds"

The JellyBean:
"All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead"

May Day:
"Love is fragile she was thinking but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said.
The new lovewords, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover, "

The Lees of Happiness:
"they were young and gravely passionate they demanded everything and then yielded everything again in ecstasies of unselfishness and pride.
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The Diamond as Big as The Ritz:
"He was, in one sense, the richest man that ever lived and yet was he worth anything at all"
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness"
"There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disilllusion"

Winter Dreams:
"long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone.
Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone, I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more" These sumptuous new hardback editions mark theth anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.
Encompassing the very best of F, Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life.
It brings together his most famous stories, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby and, "The Lost Decade", written in Fitzgerald's last years.
It isn't a great revelation to state that F Scott Fitzgerald's writing is exquisite and so it shouldn't be a surprise that his short stories collected in Flappers and Philosophers fromtoare also exquisite.
They aren't all amazing but for the most part they whip away with a lot of heart and style, Era's of writing show clearly as the years, and the books making up this collection, pass and the adaptability of his writing is like the changing of the seasons.
It starts off about young, vital people trying to understand life to the art of the heartbreaking romance either requited or not, the struggles of addiction and arrogance only to wind down to the farce of hopeless midlife failure for laughs with his Pat Hobby section and then ending with something a bit more sad and serious.

The range in these stories is a little unexpected for me as I mostly know the writer from their novels but finding that he has a way with the absurd and the fanciful almost scifi only makes you more impressed by his talent.
A terrific writer and some wonderful writing in this, sizeable, collection, The physical book is so lovely reminds me why I never plan on getting a kindle/ereader etc,

As with any collection of short stories, I like some more than others, but as a whole it's really masterful, A glimpse into time amp values gone by, as well as observations and human conditions that are probably universal, I've enjoyed reading this in bites, reading other books in between, and I'll definitely revisit some of the stories, Beautiful. My love for Fitzgerald began in high school, I've always loved his elegant writing, Beautiful is the only way to describe it, This edition, by the way, is beautiful as

well, It's from Penguin, of course,.stars

Had some good ones:

The Offshore Pirate
Head and Shoulders
Bernice Bobs Her Hair

The thing I liked most about this edition Goodreads doesnt list the Alma Classics paperback version unfortunately which was the edition that I read was that it contains extra material at the back which details Fitzgeralds life, his relationships with his wife, his career, each of his works, and his health and ultimate death in.
I found out that not only was Fitzgerald named after Francis Scott Key, he was also related to him! Very ironic given the anti American Dream sentiment of many of his works.


A quote I enjoyed: from The CutGlass Bowl

There was a roughstone age and a smoothstone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cutglass age.
In the cutglass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterwards and wrote thankyou notes for all sorts of cutglass presents punchbowls, finger bowls, dinner glasses, wineglasses, icecream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters and vases for, though cut glass was nothing new in the Nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.





It's been a while since I read any of his stuff, and I'd somehow forgotten how it all has a melancholy edge, He writes about people who are all very tragic in a picturesque sort of way, I enjoyed the stories as I read them, but suspect many of them will fade from my memory quickly, The unpublished ones were interesting occasionally with a very unfinished feel to them, and I enjoyed seeing some of his more unpolished work, I loooooooove Fitzgerald. It's fair to say that this collection would look somewhat like a bell curve his best short stories, including my favourite, "Winter Dreams", are somewhere amidst the starterpanic and the flat, weariness Fitzgerald wore toward the end of his career and life.
That's not to say those stories at the beginning and the end of the story aren't good, because the Pat Hobby stories So funny! But they didn't have the morale, or the elegance, that is associated with Fitzgerald.
Allinall, a stunning collection of short stories that any reader should be delighted to have on their shelves,

Also, the idea that this book contains the "collected short stories" of Fitzgerald is false, More notably, I noticed that "The Offshore Pirate was missing from this collection, sitelink youtube. com/watchvzpdC This collection shows Fitzgerald to be one of the very best short story writers, up there with Hemmingway and Dahl,

Fitzgerald didn't quite manage to write the ultimate American Novel with Tender is the Night, he may have got there with The Last Tycoon if he had lived long enough to finish it, but his short stories, along with his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, ensure his longevity in the ranks of the best American authors of all time.


It's been seven years since I read this, and I can't remember a clear favourite 'Mayday' was truly awesome, though, Öykü yazmak sadece Sait Faik'in işi diye düşünürdüm ama Scott Fitzgerald'ın da işiymiş, Çok çok iyi öyküleri var yazarın, Okumakta gecikmişim ayıp etmisim, Big book of brilliance and boredom, This penguin edition collects a substantial number of short stories from Scott, Some of this was a repeat for me as I had recently completed Tales of the Jazz Age, It also incorporates Flappers and Philosophers, All the Sad Young Men, Taps at Reveille, and uncollected stories which were mostly magazine publications like the Pat Hobby stories, I loved Flappers and Philosophers and the Jazz Age tales, not one I disliked, All the Sad Young Men was good too and then it starts to fade for me with the exception of Babylon Revisited and perhaps Bridal Party, Felt more hit and miss, The uncollected stories really didn't charm me and I had to slog through it to finish the book, First half brilliant, second half boredom,overall. .