Flappers and Philosophers

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paperback

Published : Saturday 15 February 2014

ISBN : 9781847493460

Price : €9.63

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Description

Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald's mini-series, this lavishly produced edition with flaps, foil on the cover and 4 b&w plates contains notes and an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald's life and works.

Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.

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