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All The Sad Young Men
''All the Sad Young Men'' is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Scribners in February 1926. Composition Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play '' The Vegetable'' had been a failure. The book was dedicated to Ring and Ellis Lardner, who were neighbors at the time the book was published. Contents The volume contains nine stories: * "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" As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, ''The Great Gatsby''. Fitzgerald wrote "Absolution", one of the best-received stories in the collection, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Sad Young Men (1926 1st Ed Dust Jacket)
All the Sad Young Men is a collection of short fiction by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories originally appeared independently in popular literary journals and were first collected in February 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons.: See annotated introductions for selected short stories. Stories The original periodical publication and date are indicated below. * "The Rich Boy" (''Redbook'', January/February 1926) * "Winter Dreams" ('' Metropolitan'', December 1922) * "The Baby Party" (''Hearst's International Cosmopolitan'', February 1925) * "Absolution" (''American Mercury'', June 1924) * "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" (''McCall's'', July 1924) * "The Adjuster" (''American Mercury'', 1926) * "Hot and Cold Blood" (''Hearst's International Cosmopolitan'', August, 1923) * "The Sensible Thing" (''Liberty'', July 15, 1924) * "Gretchen's Forty Winks" (''Saturday Evening Post'', March 15, 1924) Background In a letter to Scribner editor-in-chief Maxwell Perki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolution (short Story)
"Absolution" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection '' All the Sad Young Men''. Publication "Absolution" was originally published in ''The American Mercury'' in June 1924. The story would later be published in Fitzgerald's third short story collection ''All the Sad Young Men'' in 1926. Background Fitzgerald began writing "Absolution" in June 1923. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald stated that it was originally intended to be the prologue of his later novel ''The Great Gatsby'', but that it "interrupted with the neatness of the plan". In 1934, Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to a fan that the story was intended to show Gatsby's early life, but was cut to preserve his "sense of mystery". Plot overview "Absolution", narrated in the third person, focuses on a young boy named Rudolph Miller, who often fantasizes about a self-created alter ego called Blatchford Sarnemington. Rudolph, an 11-year-old Catholic, attends a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Short Story Collections
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Maxwell Perkins
William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947) was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe. Early life and education Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, to Elizabeth (Evarts) Perkins, a daughter of William M. Evarts, and Edward Clifford Perkins, a lawyer. He grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and then graduated from Harvard College in 1907. Although an economics major in college, Perkins also studied under Charles Townsend Copeland, a literature professor who helped prepare Perkins for his career. Career After working as a reporter for ''The New York Times'', Perkins joined the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1910 as an advertising manager, before becoming an editor. At that time, Scribner's was known for publishing older authors such as John Galsworthy, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore (Long Island), North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's cover art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated aspects of it into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adjuster (short Story)
"The Adjuster" is a short story written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story appears in Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories ''All the Sad Young Men'', published by Scribners in February 1926. The story depicts the troubled relationship of married couple Luella and Charles Hemple, living in New York City in 1925. Publication "The Adjuster" is the sixth story in the collection. ''All the Sad Young Men'' was published a year after his third and most celebrated novel, ''The Great Gatsby'', and contains 9 stories. Fitzgerald wrote "The Adjuster" writing at the height of his career but also during a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, his wife Zelda Fitzgerald was sick and he believed her romantically involved with another man. His play ''The Vegetable, or From President to Postman'' had been a failure. Composition One author states that ''All the Sad Young Men'' contained some of his most profound, if not most widely known, short stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baby Party
"The Baby Party" is a short story published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in ''Hearst's International Cosmopolitan'' (February 1925). Plot The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him. Early on it is apparent this creates discord among the couple. The daughter is invited to a party, which John begrudgingly attends. After Ede injures one of the other children, he ends up in a fistfight with another father. At the close of the story, he insists his wife apologize for the mess, and he holds his daughter while she falls asleep in his arms. In the story the children have characteristics of adults while the adults act like children. ''The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald'', D Parker, 1949, The Viking Press History "The Baby Party" was written while Fitzgerald was in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Dreams
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in '' Metropolitan'' magazine in December 1922 and later collected in '' All the Sad Young Men'' in 1926. The plot concerns the attempts by a young man to win the affections of an upper-class woman. The story, frequently anthologized, is regarded as one of Fitzgerald's finest works "for poignantly portraying the loss of youthful illusions." In the Fitzgerald canon, the story is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster" as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel ''The Great Gatsby'' in 1925. Writing his editor Max Perkins in June 1925, Fitzgerald described "Winter Dreams" as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea." Background The short story was based upon Fitzgerald's unsuccessful romantic pursuit of socialite Ginevra King. A wealthy heiress from a Chicago banking family, Ginevra enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was feted in the Chicago social scene as a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rich Boy
"The Rich Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection ''All the Sad Young Men''. "The Rich Boy" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of ''Redbook''. In the January installment, the story is described on the front cover as: "A great story of today's youth by F. Scott Fitzgerald". Plot summary F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy" is a short story about Anson Hunter, a very affluent young man. Anson was born rich and has always enjoyed a life of privilege, including being tutored by a British nanny in the hopes that her accent and manner of speaking might rub off... Background and composition Fitzgerald wrote "The Rich Boy" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of ''The Great Gatsby''. He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, during what he described as a period of "1000 parties and no work." By May 28, 1925, he wrote his literary agent, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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