Flappers and Philosophers
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Flappers and Philosophers" is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories involve characters typical of the 1920s jazz-age generation, the flappers and philosophers of the affluent and heady America lately recovered from World War One. These include careless, happy, liberated and bored youth, society girls and town boys, against the backdrop of jazz music and dance, feminists, intellectuals, odd couplings of people not expected to fall in love, the melding of high and low culture and old and new wealth. It includes eight stories: The Offshore Pirate The Ice Palace Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl Bernice Bobs Her Hair Benediction Dalyrimple Goes Wrong The Four Fists Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pages
100
Publisher
e-artnow
Published Date
2017-10-16
ISBN
8027223792 9788027223794
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"This collection of 8 short stories is like most that I've read; some are great, others, not so much. This collection is still very much worth reading, however. Most of these stories drew me right in, I found myself identifying with them. In other stories, I found the characters to not be likable at all. Perhaps that's what Fitzgerald was going for though. The underlying theme in these stories seems to be of youthful exuberance, when you're dreams are in reach and you've got your whole life ahead of you, and how these characters deal with falling short of those dreams as they age. A very good read overall, just don't let the stories that fall flat cloud your overall judgment of this book."
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