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Forgotten Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sarah Churchwell

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work.

Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected eleven forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 27, 2015
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349140261
  • Price : INR 699
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born in 1896 Fitzgerald was considered a member of the 'Lost Generation' along with Steinbeck T.S. Eliot and Waldo Peirce. His novels epitomize the Jazz Age - a term he coined himself - and The Great Gatsby is often considered as 'the great American novel'.

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Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta 2004) co-editor of Must Read: Rediscovering the Bestseller (Continuum 2012) and author of various scholarly articles chapters and introductions. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian the New Statesman the Independent the New York Times Book Review the TLS the Observer the Times the Telegraph the Spectator and the Financial Times among others and she frequently appears on UK television and radio discussing arts culture and all things American. Although she remains an American she lives in London with her English husband.

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