TRIMALCHIO is a reconstruction of Fitzgerald's first attempt at writing THE GREAT GATSBY--the version that was eventually corrected and rewritten when the novel was in galleys.
A stand-alone edition of the thought-provoking Fitzgerald short story follows the adventures of Benjamin Button, who is born as an old man and who ages backward so that, at the end of his life, he is a baby. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
These fourteen stories, which reflect Fitzgerald's own experiences growing up in the Midwest, include "The Scandal Detectives," "The Freshest Boy," "Emotional Bankruptcy," and "A Woman with a Past." Like Fitzgerald, Basil and Josephine are young dreamers who end in disillusion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's story collection TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE, first published in 1922, contains some of his most celebrated short pieces, including "Winter Dreams," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (a story Fitzgerald said was "designed utterly for my own amusement"), "The Jelly Bean," and "May Day" ...
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