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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with the Josephine Stories (screw you, Basil) when I was seventeen, as they ring so true in how silly/awful it is to be a swoony sixteen year old girl, not to mention the gorgeous 1920's Chicago/Lake Geneva backdrop they take place in.  I'm currently trying to push them onto my own si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72341450">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Marvelous period stories of Basil Duke Lee (thinly disguised younger F. Scott), and other stories about Josephine Perry. Witty, lovely, and charming short stories. God, could the man write!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In which Fitzgerald fictionalizes his own adolescence. Like his Pat Hobby sequence, these stories are probably a lot more satisyfing collected than they would be separately, even though they were originally published that way. Together, they read as episodes in the characters' lives, and there's les...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1872161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wrote while he struggled with, in my opinion, his sub-par novel <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46164.Tender_Is_the_Night" title="Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald">Tender is the Night</a>, Fitzgerald wrote the 9 stories about Basil and 5 stories about Josephine. His character development is rich and real and deeply moving. I favored the Josephine stories, perhaps because I am a woman, but the Basil on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30826676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[crisp and to the point, no namby-pambying with these two. read them while on spring break visiting abby in chicago. appropriate setting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[these stories feel like prototypes for later adolescent lit. Holden is sort of a more introspective, sad, and sharp Basil.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Autobigraphically speaking,it was little creepy to me that Bail and Josephine were essentially the same person ... ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Consider this the lighter side of Fitzgerald. It's a fun collection of short stories to read and enjoy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[good, old-fashioned storytelling. would be excellent on a high school syllabus.]]></body>
    
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