Flappers and Philosophers: Scott F. Fitzgerald. - Brossura

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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ISBN 10: 1847493467 ISBN 13: 9781847493460

Casa editrice: Alma Books, 2014

Riassunto

Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in `Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while `The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity. Also containing `The Offshore Pirate', `Head and Shoulders', `The Cut-Glass Bowl', `Benediction', `Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and `The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.

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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. --The New York Times

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Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.

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• Editore: Alma Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847493467
• ISBN 13: 9781847493460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 244