All the Sad Young Men: Stories

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

This third collection of Fitzgerald's extremely popular short stories was published in 1926, in the wake of his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.

Though his novels have become enduring classics, in his own time F. Scott Fitzgerald was primarily famous as a gifted and prolific writer of short stories, which were regularly published in the most popular periodicals of the day. This third collection of his tales, All the Sad Young Men, contains some of his most admired stories, including "Absolution," "The Rich Boy," and the haunting "Winter Dreams." These stories riff on the same themes that animated his great novels, and together they produce a scintillating portrait of America at the height of the Jazz Age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593687703
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/13/2024
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and a host of widely admired short stories. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, lived in New York, Paris, and the Riviera; he died in 1940 at the age of forty-four.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University

Editorial Reviews

[Fitzgerald] was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.” —The New York Times

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