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Taps At Reveille
''Taps at Reveille'' (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. All were timed to appear a few months to a year after each of his four completed novels were published. Contents The eighteen stories collected in ''Taps at Reveille'' are: Stories about Basil Duke Lee: * "The Scandal Detectives" * " The Freshest Boy" * "He Thinks He's Wonderful" * "The Captured Shadow" * "The Perfect Life" Stories about Josephine Perry: * "First Blood" * "A Nice Quiet Place" * "A Woman with a Past" Others * "Crazy Sunday" * "Two Wrongs" * "The Night of Chancellorsville" * "The Last of the Belles" * "Majesty" * "Family in the Wind" * "A Short Trip Home" * "One Interne" * "The Fiend" * " Babylon Revisited" Publication ''Taps at Reveille'' was published on March 10, 1935. The collection was dedicated to Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober. Reception In The New York Times ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Freshest Boy
"The Freshest Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the July 28, 1928 issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', and was reprinted in Fitzgerald's 1935 collection, ''Taps at Reveille''. Plot The story centers around a boy and his discouragement while attending a preparatory school. The boy, Basil Duke Lee, is characterized as naive and dreamy. He is thus treated as an outcast among his peers as well as by the school's administrators. Lee's naivete is contrasted with the experienced perspective of an upperclassman, Lewis Crum. Crum resents Lee's carefree nature and his lack of commitment to tradition. The two boys develop a competitive relationship, and it becomes clear that Lee is internally adjusted to the environment while outwardly aloof and unhappy. Unlike Lee, however, Crum comes from wealth, which gives him a palpable advantage at the school. Lee is castigated by the school's headmaster over his low grades. As the story progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Blood (story)
"First Blood" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in the April 5, 1930 issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', illustrated by Harry Russell Ballinger. It was later included in his 1935 short story collection ''Taps at Reveille''. Plot The story is about teen rebellion and centers on the Perrys, a wealthy family living in Chicago. The young Josephine Perry joins her friend for a trip to see their boyfriends under the guise of seeing a movie. Her love interest is Travis de Coppet, another young WASP. During the course of the evening Travis makes advances towards Josephine and is subsequently rejected. She rejoices at the power she has over men. Throughout the short story she is characterized as beautiful yet jealous. At the close of the story she laments the fact a man she has interest in is out with another girl, all the while she cannot reciprocate another's feelings because she is emotionally truncated. It is the first of the five part "Josephine Perry" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Sunday
"Crazy Sunday" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in the October 1932 issue of ''American Mercury''. Fitzgerald's story is set in the brutal life of the great studios of 1930s Hollywood, with their flocks of actors, writers and directors seething with interpersonal and sexual politics. It is extraordinarily long — almost 6,400 words — and has a more novel-like than story-like structure, being set over several days and settings, though the driving story and few characters make it a story rather than a novel. Plot Screenwriter Joel Coles spends his Sundays working — at the moment he is rewriting a Eugene O'Neill play in which a famous actress is to play the lead. He is "twenty-eight and not yet broken by Hollywood" after his first six months there. But on this Sunday, he is invited to tea by the director Miles Calman: a big step up for a writer. Stella, Calman's neglected wife, presses highballs on Joel — he had promised himself not to drink, espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babylon Revisited
"Babylon Revisited" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1930 and first published on February 21, 1931 in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' and free inside ''The Telegraph'', the following Saturday. The story is set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the Jazz Age. Brief flashbacks take place in the Jazz Age. Also it shows several references to the Great Depression and how the character had to adapt his life to it. Much of it is based on the author's own experiences. Summary "I heard that you lost a lot in the crash." "I did," and he added grimly, "but I lost everything I wanted in the boom." "Babylon Revisited" is split into five sections, and the short story begins with Charlie Wales sitting at Ritz Bar in Paris; he is having a conversation with the bartender, Alix. While in conversation with Alix the bartender, he inquires about his old friends whom he used to drink and attend parties with. He leaves the bartende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Ober
Harold Ober (1881–1959) was an American literary agent. In 1907 — two years after graduating from Harvard with a degree in literature — Harold Ober became a literary agent at the Paul R. Reynolds Literary Agency. By 1908 he was representing such authors as Jack London and H. G. Wells. In 1929, he opened his own agency, Harold Ober Associates, — representing authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl Buck and Walter D. Edmonds and J. D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger (; January 1, 1919 January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel ''The Catcher in the Rye''. Salinger got his start in 1940, before serving in World War II, by publishing several short stories in '' ...."Facts about Harold Ober." F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary. University of South Carolin Although abandoning his contract with the publishers Little, Brown, Inc., Salinger employed and entrusted Ober's agency until his death in 2010. Har ... [...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 Basil And Josephine Stories
The ''Basil and Josephine Stories'' is a collection of two separate short stories collections (one about Basil Duke Lee, the other about Josephine Perry) by F. Scott Fitzgerald which initially ran serially in ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Some of them were later collected in ''Taps at Reveille'' and posthumous short story collections. The title characters were intended by Fitzgerald to meet each other, but this never happened in his literature. In various correspondences Fitzgerald expressed admiration for the Lee stories, based on a young man's life in the Midwest. Josephine is a sultry character who is presented as a headstrong woman. Some critics have theorized she is based on Ginevra King, the celebrated Chicago debutante who was Fitzgerald's "first love". Stories The Basil stories detail the emotional growth of a character named Basil Lee who starts as a young man living in the Midwest and ends up, by the age of 17, ready to enter the world of Yale. Throughout the stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Short Story Collections
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