All the Sad Young Men (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781387764402)

Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this collection of nine short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes two of his most famous - the beautifully elegiac 'The Rich Boy' and 'Winter Dreams.' Like Gatsby, these two tales feature wealthy protagonists - the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green - who struggle to come to terms with lost love. The short story 'Absolution', in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to Gatsby. Also containing 'The Baby Party, ' 'Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les', 'The Adjuster, ' 'Hot and Cold Blood, ' 'The Sensible Thing' and 'Gretchen's Forty Winks' - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American ficti

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 1387764403
ISBN-13: 9781387764402
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2018
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d