All the Sad Young Men

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald was disillusioned and having money problems when wrote the stories. He believed his wife Zelda was seeing another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure. Expecting more failure Fitzgerald was surprised by its critical acclaim. The New York Times said of it, "The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of The Great Gatsby of last Spring. A novel so widely praised - by people whose recognition counts - is stiff competition. It is even something of a problem for a reviewer to find new and different words to properly grace the occasion. It must be said that the collection as a whole is not sustained to the high excellence of The Great Gatsby, but it has stories of fine insight and finished craft."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515460220
Publisher:	Spire Books
Publication date:	03/15/2023
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Scott Key Fitzgerald was a popular American author known for his novels and short stories; his works have been described as evocative of the Jazz Era; he coined the term.He was born in the 1890s and came of age during World War I. Scott was one of the greatest twentieth-century writers, a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. In his lifetime, he had published over 164 short stories, four novels, and four story collections. His work has been translated into many languages, and he mostly writes stories with the theme of youth, love, despair, age, etc.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University

Table of Contents

Introduction; All the Sad Young Men: The Rich Boy; Winter Dreams; The Baby Party; Absolution; Rags; Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les; The Adjuster; Hot and Cold Blood; 'The Sensible Thing'; Gretchen's Forty Winks; Additional Stories, April 1925 - April 1928: One of My Oldest Friends; A Penny Spent; 'Not in the Guidebook'; Presumption; The Adolescent Marriage; The Dance ['In a Little Town']; Your Way and Mine; Jacob's Ladder; The Love Boat; The Bowl; Magnetism; Record of variants; Explanatory notes; Illustrations; Appendix

1. Passages cut from 'The Rich Boy'; Appendix
2. Composition, publication, and earnings.