Porcelain and Pink, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Porcelain and Pink is a comic one-act play from the 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. The plot involves a young woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity. It was first published in the “Smart Set”, and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in […]
This Side of Paradise, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. […]
The Beautiful and the Damned, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner’s in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. As in Fitzgerald’s other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on […]
Tender is the Night, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner’s Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. In 1932, Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia […]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a […]