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Flappers and Philosophers: Stories of the Jazz Age
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515439134
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Aug 20 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Flappers and Philosophers is F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut short story collection and an early expression of the Jazz Age sensibility he would come to define.
Gathering eight stories written at the dawn of Fitzgerald's career, the collection captures the restless energy of postwar youth, the shifting codes of courtship and class, and the fragile optimism of a generation testing new freedoms. Among the most celebrated pieces are Bernice Bobs Her Hair, a sharp satire of social ambition and feminine reinvention, and The Ice Palace, a study of regional difference and emotional misunderstanding.
Even in these early stories, Fitzgerald displays the themes that would shape his later masterpieces: romantic aspiration, wealth and illusion, youth and disillusionment, and the tension between desire and social reality. The prose is bright, ironic, and observant-alternately playful and melancholy-announcing the arrival of a major American voice.
This Wilder Publications edition presents the complete 1920 text and aligns with our clustered editions of Fitzgerald's early works, including Early F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams and the Princeton Stories, offering readers a coherent view of the author's formative period.
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