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  <title><![CDATA[Babylon Revisited and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default-description>Written between 1920 &amp; 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, he creates vivid, timeless characters--a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy &amp; dissipated young men &amp; women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York &amp; Paris, he brings the society of the Lost Generation to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1960</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i can't find my exact copy of what i purchased from half priced books, so i'll just claim i'm reading the same one that jamie read. this book is so old. it smells like 1955, and the pages are a sickly yellow-brown. i cannot wait. for the stories of course.<br/><br/>of course.<br/><br/>despite sm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40735388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 08:02:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 08:06:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories collected here move chronologically from his early years to his later. As he gets closer to his death, the stories get shorter, more depressing, and less interesting. The first half of the book is full of writing that actually puts Great Gatsby to shame. Stories like May Day and A Diamon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2978707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29725945">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 23 22:23:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every sentence is pure quality. Definitely worth reading, even if it's over a few years, one story at a time.]]></body>
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    <review id="54469015">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 30 08:07:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like F Scott Fitzgerald quite a bit more than my high school self.  Who knew?]]></body>
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    <review id="9764042">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 30 10:49:01 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a lot of Fitzgerald in my early 20s, so I thought I should go back and revisit him, particularly to get a handle on how he constructed his short stories. I found myself far less impressed than I had been in the past. Many of the stories felt quite dated, and their concerns seemed somewhat sil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9764042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10504690">
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    <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i don't know if this book truly deserves five stars because some stories like &quot;May Day&quot; don't hold up as well on a revisit to this book.  when i read this in highschool and i ate up every story.  but for me that story tries too hard and relies on cliches of fitzgerald, &quot;the superficia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10504690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53387179">
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  <read_at>Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 03 13:29:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fitzgerald is an incredibly writer; I love his similitudes and rich evocations of his adjectives. But on this, my third time through, it felt as if there were a rich and annoying uncle in the room. He might speak well, and have insight on the deepest topics of life, but sooner or later he becomes si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53387179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10767294">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and this one didn't disappoint. Some of the stories, such as May Day, The Rich Boy, and Babylon Revisited, cover similar ground to his novels (i.e., Princeton and Yale graduates in New York in the 1920s and expat Americans living it up in Paris in the 1920s) but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10767294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20856650">
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  <read_at>Fri May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 09 20:52:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[10 installments of tales overrun with the beautiful and suicidally rich who always drink one too many gin and tonics to drown out that god-forsaken past that one can never get over...these are like dark american fairy-tales for the first part of the twentieth century that never end happily...<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20856650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8504770">
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of romantic New York City and surrounding area type of stories that I couldn't really get into. There was one really sweet one though of this family that lived completely off the map and live in an incredible palace atop a golden mountain and have to kill anybody that's ever invited there becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8504770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="468902">
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    <body><![CDATA[About a recovering alcoholic's return to Paris, the city that led to his unravelling and a host of bitter feelings betweeen him and his dead wife's sister and her husband.  He wishes to be reunited with his child, Honoria, but his sister-in law is haunted by his past addiction and neglect.  Knowing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/468902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24064462">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're like me, a southern bell (or gentleman) who has strayed from your roots and ventured North in search of lights, actions, life, dignity, and an over-priced standard of living, you will appreciate F. Scott's stories even more for their truth, passion, and recognition of the smooth, hazy, hum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24064462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72466038">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fitzgerald writes some pretty imaginative stories. Like Hemingway, usually better stuff than in his novels.]]></body>
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    <review id="19317322">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this story as a short story but I didn't like any of the characters.  I wish that Fitzgerald had explained some of the topics discussed in the story in further depth because it would have made a bit more sense.  Other than that I would suggest reading this.]]></body>
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    <review id="47316595">
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    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I really liked this story. Most of the short stories that I read for class I really don't like but this one I really felt sympathetic to this man, all he wants is his daughter and he can't get her back and he's trying so hard.]]></body>
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    <review id="38329656">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fitzgerald was known to write short stories only to have enough money to support himself while he wrote his more famous and influential novels. I love the short stories in this book though. Most are compact and surprising.]]></body>
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    <review id="5864468">
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 15:42:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because Kevin Spacey was cited in a magazine as reading it. &quot;A Diamond as big as the Ritz&quot; has character, but overall, the stories lack. They don't hit. The style doesn't conform to short story writing.]]></body>
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    <review id="6765286">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite short story in my favorite short story collection!  Seems highly fictional but rings with truth and gives reader a nostalgic feeling for something lost that we can all relate to...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it is so nice to read excellent writing. sometimes the short stories are fairly similar in theme but it's great to see Fitzgerald starting on ideas that he later developed into excellent novels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first book of Fitzgerald's.  Just re-read a few of the stories not too long ago.  He definately had a bitter layer that pervades his writing. He brings the reader in and always has some effect.]]></body>
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