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Bio: Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He would live in St. Paul and then New York until his father was fired from his job forcing the Fitzgerald’s back to Minnesota. At the age of thirteen, F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first work published in the school newspaper. After attending the Newman School, he was accepted into Princeton, where he would focus on writing for various clubs and organizations rather than his studies. He was placed on academic probation in 1917 which led to F. Scott Fitzgerald enlisting in the Army. While stationed at Camp Sheridan in Alabama in 1918, he met Zelda Sayre, his future wife. F. Scott was enamored with Zelda but she would break their first engagement due to F. Scott’s low salary and lack of success to that point.

F. Scott had been trying to become accomplished since his enlistment in the Army where he started his first attempt at a novel originally entitled The Romantic Egotist. He would submit this story to Charles Scribner’s Sons only to have it rejected for revision. By 1919, The Romantic Egotist had become This Side of Paradise and was accepted by Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s. Before the novel was published in 1920, F. Scott began gaining attention to his various short stories which were written as a way to gain income. Once This Side of Paradise was released, F. Scott became famous overnight. Within one week, he was married to Zelda Sayre.

After This Side of Paradise, F. Scott’s numerous short stories were collected into his first short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. He would continue writing short stories, mainly for the Saturday Evening Post, and working on his novels. Zelda gave birth to their only child, a girl named Scottie in 1921 and six months later, F. Scott’s second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned was released. This led to his second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age, and work on the play, The Vegetable. F. Scott believed The Vegetable was to be his crowning achievement which would make Zelda and he financially stable for the rest of their lives. After The Vegetable failed miserably at its tryout, F. Scott continued to write short stories to maintain his income/pay of his debts. He also increased his drinking habits to which he would be famous for. Although an alcoholic, F. Scott always wrote sober, but some days of sobriety were few and far between.

The Fitzgerald’s went to France in 1924 where three major events occurred. One, The Great Gatsby was written. Two, F. Scott met Ernest Hemingway at the Dingo Bar. Three, Zelda has an affair with a French aviator named Edouard Jozan. The Great Gatsby, although praised as a major step upward for F. Scott, did not sell as many copies as was hoped for. In 1927, the Fitzgerald’s returned to America.

It would not be until 1934 that F. Scott’s next novel would be completed and published. It was during this seven-year period that F. Scott’s alcohol consumption increased, Zelda’s erratic behavior lead to breakdowns in 1930, 1932, and 1934, and an intensive writer’s block ensued. F. Scott originally had plans to write a story tentatively titled The Boy Who Killed His Mother, but it never came to fruition. Instead the novel Tender is the Night was completed. It was after the fourth novel was published that the period known as "the crack-up" occurred. From 1935 through 1937, as Zelda was hospitalized for her breakdowns, F. Scott was heavily in debt, unable to produce stories, and was in a perpetual state of drunkenness.

In 1937, Fitzgerald obtained a job as a screenwriter at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). During his tenure, he was able to pay off most of his debts and met a woman named Sheilah Graham. Graham and F. Scott would maintain a relationship even as MGM dropped his option in 1938. From 1938 to his death, F. Scott continued to freelance screen write and write short stories. In 1939, his fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was started only to never be finished to due a fatal heart attack in Graham’s apartment on December 21, 1940.


1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
2. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
3. Long [80840 words]This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
4. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
5. Long [60469 words]Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
2. Long [80840 words]This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
3. Long [60469 words]Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]
4. Long [123551 words]The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Classic Literature]

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1 The Great Gatsby [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautifu... more info>>
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2 This Side of Paradise [MultiFormat]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Published in 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, became the novel that defined an era and launched his literary career. This is the story of Amory Blaine, "romantic egotist," and his journey from prep school to Princeton to the First World War. This dazzling chronicle of youth and the Jazz Age remains bitingly relevant decades later. 1920

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3 Tender is the Night [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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  Published in 1934, Tender is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott ... You are a fine writer. Believe it--not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender is the Night ... more info>>
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4 The Last Tycoon [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday.
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5 Tales of the Jazz Age [MultiFormat]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Tales of the Jazz Age is an anthology of nineteen short stories by renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar," and "Love in the Night." 1922

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6 The Beautiful and Damned [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather's death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and is destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoes--first in hilarity, and then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a devastating portrait of the nouveaux riches, New York night life, reckless ambition, and squandered ta... more info>>
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7 The Complete Short Stories and Essays, Volume 2 [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The first comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and essays is now available in eBook only. This definitive edition pulls together the complete works from such celebrated titles as Tales of the Jazz Age, Babylon Revisited, Flappers and Philosophers, and many others. For the first time ever, readers will have all of the short stories and essays ordered chronologically in two volumes.
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8 The Beautiful and Damned [MultiFormat]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Young, beautiful and wealthy, Gloria and Anthony want their marriage to be "a live, glamorous performance". Seemingly perfectly matched, their love begins to deteriorate as each discovers imperfections in the other. In a desperate search for happiness they live riotously--until the final crack-up. 1922

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9 Flappers and Philosophers [MultiFormat]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's initial encore--his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920, to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three. Flappers and Philosophers contains some of Fitzgerald's best early stories: 'The Offshore Pirate' 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Ice Palace', and 'Benediction'. In these narratives Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful and willf... more info>> 1920

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10 This Side of Paradise [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Life at Princeton smacks of disillusionment. College years are a time for self-discovery, but for Amory Blaine, attending Princeton in the aftermath of World War I, this stage of life takes on additional struggles. He chose the university, saying, "I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and aristocratic," but when he gets there he is faced with a barrage of career decisions and lost loves. A story of the Lost Generation defining the future of America, This Side of Paradise is the bo... more info>> 2003
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11 An F. Scott Fitzgerald Quartet: This Side of Paradise; Flappers and Philosophers; The Beautiful and the Damned; Tales from the Jazz Age [MultiFormat]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  The Four Books that Defined and Chronicled the Jazz Age! Here in one eBook is the quartet of books that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary immortality. Meet the flappers, the indolent young men, the speakeasies, the gangsters, the illegal hooch, and the easy money that characterized the Roaring Twenties. From This Side of Paradise to Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tales from the Jazz Age Fitzgerald will light the way on a very special insider's tour of the J... more info>> 2005

Words: 352385 - Reading Time: 1006-1409 min.
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12 The Beautiful and the Damned [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  An F. Scott Fitzgerald classic.
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13 This Side of Paradise [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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  This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise c... more info>>
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14 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Upcoming Major Motion Picture [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life--he goes to war, runs ... more info>>
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15 The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald [Secure Mobipocket]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum Foreword by Roxana Robinson Benediction; Head and Shoulders; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; The Ice Palace; The Offshore Pirate; May Day; The Jelly Bean; The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; Winter Dreams; Absolution In the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flapper's historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and... more info>>
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