Collected Works Of F

Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, ‘the Jazz Age’, but his reputation has outlived it.

Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrote between 1922 and his death in 1940. ‘This Side of Paradise’ catapulted him to fame, its exposé of the manners and morals of a post-war generation becoming a cause célèbre. ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, a semi-autobiographical moral parable of a doomed marriage, affirmed Fitzgerald’s status as the spokesman for the generation of the 1920s. His third novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’, remains for many readers the definitive American novel of the twentieth century, its eponymous hero a complex fictional portrayal of a romantic imagination at the mercy of a corrupt reality. ‘Tender is the Night’ is an American ‘Vanity Fair’ set on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Fitzgerald was working on ‘The Last Tycoon’ at his death in 1940, and many critics rank his account of Hollywood at the height of the studio system, even in its unfinished state, as comparable to the achievement of ‘The Great Gatsby’.

This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon
Winter Dreams
Gretchen’s Forty Winks
Absolution
‘The Sensible Thing’
Love in the Night
A Short Trip Home
Magnetism
A Night at the Fair
Basil: The Freshest Boy
Forging Ahead
The Rough Crossing
At Your Age
Two Wrongs
A Nice Quiet Place
Josephine: A Woman with a Past
The Bridal Party
A Freeze-Out
Family in the Wind
What a Handsome Pair!
Afternoon of an Author
Financing Finnegan
Design in Plaster
A Patriotic Short
Three Hours Between Planes