Delphi Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Delphi Classics (Editor)

Widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the modern era, F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920’s. His masterpiece ‘The Great Gatsby’, a 1925 Jazz Age tale about the impossibility of recapturing the past, was initially a failure. Today, the story of Gatsby’s doomed love for the unattainable Daisy is judged by many to be the greatest novel of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was also a writer of numerous short stories, plays and essays, revealing the incredible breadth of his literary talents. This eBook presents Fitzgerald’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 4)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fitzgerald’s life and works* Concise introductions to the major works* Three novels, including ‘The Great Gatsby’, with individual contents tables* Features the rare unfinished novel ‘Philippe, Count of Darkness’, appearing here for the first time in publishing history* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Many rare short stories available in no other collection* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories* Easily locate the stories you want to read* Includes Fitzgerald’s rare play, poetry and essays – available in no other collection* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres* UPDATED with revised texts and rare storiesPlease due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free NovelsThis Side of Paradise (1920)The Beautiful and Damned (1922)The Great Gatsby (1925)Philippe, Count of Darkness (1941)The Short Story CollectionsFlappers and Philosophers (1920)Tales from the Jazz Age (1922)Miscellaneous StoriesThe Short StoriesList of Short Stories in Chronological OrderList of Short Stories in Alphabetical OrderThe PlayThe Vegetable (1923)The PoetryThe Poetry of F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Non-FictionSelected Essays and Articles

1761 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2021

About the author

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.