Get It Now Id Die For You And Other Lost Stories Authored By F. Scott Fitzgerald Available Through Digital Edition

than seventysix years after his death in, F, Scott Fitzgerald continues to exert a fascination over readers and scholars, In April of, Id Die for You and Other Lost Stories was published, The collection is made up of short stories that were unpublished during Fitzgeralds lifetime, Edited by Anne Margaret Daniel, who also wrote the excellent explanatory notes, Id Die for You adds some fine work to the official Fitzgerald canon.


Many of the stories in Id Die for You date from Fitzgeralds “crackup” period of, when he was at his lowest ebb personally and professionally.
With his wife Zelda in a sanitarium due to her mental health issuesshe had breakdowns in,, andFitzgeralds alcoholism, always problematic, now became debilitating.
Hisnovel Tender is the Night had gone through an extremely painful gestation, At a time when many novelists turned out a book a year, Fitzgerald had gone nine years between The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.
Sales of Tender is the Night were not fantastic, and Scott was heavily in debt, At a time when Fitzgerald desperately needed money, it must have been a severe annoyance to him that the stories in Id Die for You were rejected by so many magazines.


Id Die for You is inevitably something of a hodgepodge, and the stories range from strong“The I.
O. U. ,” “Id Die for You,” and the very funny “The Women of the House,” to the weak“Gracie at Sea,” written as a screen treatment for George Burns and Gracie Allen, “Travel Together,” and “The Pearl and the Fur.
” What comes across most strongly in Id Die for You is Fitzgeralds great talent, Even in stories with generic plots, there are always sentences of beauty that stop you in your tracks,

Sentences like these: “Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact, ” p.
“Her eyes were full of tears for the unpreventable sadness in the world, ” p.
“The girl hung around under the pink sky waiting for something to happen, ” p.
“She sat with Delannux on the side of a beached raft while the sunset broke into pink picture puzzle pieces that solved themselves in the dark west.
” p.
“Women dont get bored the same way men do, They can sort of shut off their attentionbut they always know when men are bored, ” p.
“He was one of those men who seem eternally stolid, even unobservingand then announce the score added up to the last digit.
” p.
“It was a fine day with the buildings sparkling upward like pale dry ginger ale through the blue air.
” p.
“The sun shone bright on Kiki, a brisk November sun, blue in the drifting cigarettes of the crowd.
” p.
“within a few hours he had become that strange dreamy figure of one whom we have been very close to and who is neither a stranger nor quite a friend.


” p.

Even the weaker stories are still interesting, “Travel Together,” from, anticipates the plot of Preston Sturges classiccomedy Sullivans Travels, as a screenwriter travels the country as a hobo in order to get material.
For a moment as the story begins you wonder whats happeningF, Scott Fitzgerald is writing about hobos riding the rails during the Depression Has he been reading too much John Steinbeck and James T.
Farrell But then we learn that the main hobo is actually a Hollywood screenwriter, and we can breathe a sigh of relief knowing were back in Fitzgerald territory.
And theres a girl. In Fitzgeralds stories there is always a girl, and she is always beautiful, Fitzgerald paid close attention to women, and his descriptions of women in these stories are wonderful to read,

There are always connections to be made between these stories and Fitzgeralds own private life, One of the odder connections is in the short story “Cyclone in Silent Land,” which is set in a hospital and features a male patient who doesnt want to take his socks off.
It turns out that the man has an extra toe, Fitzgerald also hated to reveal his bare feet, He wrote in his ledger about a neighbor boy who “went barefoot in his yard and peeled plums, Scotts Freudian shame about his feet kept him from joining in, ” Fool for Love, by Scott Donaldson, p,His last girlfriend Sheilah Graham wrote, “All the time I knew him he always refused to take off his shoes and socks on the beach.
” The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald ThirtyFive Years Later, p,

Through these stories the reader gets a sense of Fitzgeralds diverse interests, “Offside Play” is about college footballone of the characters mentions that a star player should get paid, an issue still relevant in,years after the story was written.
Fitzgerald was a lifelong football fan, and when his fatal heart attack struck he was making a list of football players in his copy of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
The last note he made was “good prose” on a story about Princetons football team, We learn from the explanatory notes to “The Women in the House” that Fitzgerald knew a lot about flowers and kept notes about them in his notebooks.


Another minor obsession of Fitzgeralds was the Civil War, His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had deep roots in Maryland, a border state that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
However, Edward Fitzgerald had an affection for the Confederates, and passed this nostalgia for lost causes on to his son.
One could go deeper into the psychological consequences of Fitzgerald identifying more with failure than success, but Ill stop here.
And of course, Scott went on to marry Zelda Sayre, a true Southern belle from Alabama, The Civil War is the setting for the stories “Thumbs Up” and “Dentist Appointment,” which start out in a similar manner, and then diverge into two different endings.
The story was eventually published inin Colliers in a very different format as “The End of Hate, ” I actually think “The End of Hate” is the best of the three, “Thumbs Up” and “Dentist Appointment” come so close to working, but just dont quite get there, Although “Dentist Appointment” does feature a wonderful sentence describing Fitzgeralds hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota, during thes: “The rude town was like a great fish just hauled out of the Mississippi and still leaping and squirming on the bank.
” p.“The End of Hate” was published in thecollection The Price was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F.
Scott Fitzgerald, a title that is now out of date, thanks to Id Die for You,

While it would seem to be a safe bet that Id Die for You will be the very last collection of writing from F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Margaret Daniel makes the tantalizing admission in her editorial note that “Many examples of what Fitzgerald called false starts and what are obviously drafts of incomplete stories survive.
Some run to twelve or fifteen pages before they fade out or stop abruptly, Others are as short as a paragraph or two, ” p. xxi Why not publish those false starts Of course, Fitzgerald wouldnt have intended for those to be published, but his notebooks have been published, as well as several collections of his letters, so why not the false starts as well

Id Die for You is probably not the best place to start with Fitzgeralds short stories but it is well worth reading and provides yet more insight into one of Americas greatest writers.
Wish I could give this collection of F, Scott Fitzgerald's previously unpublished short stories more than five, I adore FSF's writing, just one of the reasons I decided to write a novel about his tumultuous relationship with Sheilah Graham, a woman who is fascinating in her own right.
My novel will be published by HarperCollins in, most likely called ANOTHER SIDE OF PARADISE, While some of these stories should probably have remained lost, it's just impossible for Fitzgerald to be all bad.
Even in the stories that are halfbaked or poorly realized, there's some stunning turn of phrase or masterful, evocative description that blows the reader away.
Three and onehalf. Един автор, различни стилове и кратка предистория за всеки разказ. the i. o. u: ½
nightmare:
what to do about it:
gracie at sea:
travel together:
i'd die for you:
day off from love: ½
cyclone in silent land:
the pearl and the fur:
thumbs up:
dentist appointment:
offside play:
the women in the house: dnf
salute to lucy and elsie:
love is a pain:
the couple:
ballet shoes:
thank you for the light:

despite what fitzgerald thought, there's a reason why these short stories were not published Like many fans of F.
Scott Fitzgerald, I expect, I was very excited to get my hands on I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories.
Released this year, the volume is comprised of eighteen stories in all, including two uncollected fragments they are the 'last remaining unpublished short stories' which will be published.
Fitzgerald was prolific in writing short stories, and also a shrewd fellow he recognised that he could make a great deal more money more quickly in selling them to magazines, than he could with writing and then serialising a fulllength novel.


A lot of the tales in I'd Die for You were rejected by editors who had previously published his work some are a little experimental, and veer away from the themes and character studies which seem characteristic of Fitzgerald's prose.
Each of the stories is preceded with details of its writing process, and details those magazines which Fitzgerald approached to publish them.


As I expected, some of the stories here are far better than others, but each has a lot to discover and discuss.
Overall, the quality is unsurprisingly high, and it is fascinating to chart Fitzgerald's progress as a short story writer.
It is clear to the discerning reader that Fitzgerald refined early techniques over time, and a lot of these fragments and short stories are echoed within the likes of The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.
I'd Die for You is a must read for all fans of Fitzgerald's longer work, and is sure to make the perfect gift.
Чудесна книга, от която можеш да останеш само с един горчив спомен защо, ама защо, по дяволите, тези разкази, разработки и прочие творби са останали неоценени. Тук има лек и елегантен хумор, тук има слънце и любов. Но "ние не очакваме това от Фицджералд" да, просто чудесно.
Е, тук са събрани част от разказите отвъд "официалния" Фицджералд. Едно друго негово лице, много полъчезарно, дори и обърнато към камарата от трудности и лични трагедии. Някъде там, назад във времето, светът е бил елегантен, странно различен и неестествен, погледнат от нашето съвремие. Но много красив.
Разбира се, имаше и такива творби, на които наистина нещичко не им достига, или пък са се нуждаели от още мъничко редакция. Може би е щяло да стане, може би

За самата книга на български чудесно оформление, много снимков материал, много добри кратки рецензии. Единствено не ми харесаха повечето бележки на авторката на сборника, понеже половината от тях трябваше да ги чета по два пъти и пак се чудех каква връзка имаха с текста изобщо. Да, за някои се налагаше да са отвеяни от вятъра, за да схванеш връзката и намека, използван от самия Фицджералд, но други стояха повече като напълно ненужна информация. Taky o Vánocích čtete, jak se dá Mně to k tomu nějak patří, A teď o prázdninách jsem konečně dočetla tuhle fotogenickou knížku, Nejsem úplně povídkový typ, ale tyhle mě bavily hlavně svou rozmanitostí, Každá jiná. Zábavné, vypointované, vážné i prostinké, veselé i smutné a i takové, které mě nudily nebo jsem je hned zapomněla.
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