WINTER DREAMS

Few stories capture the fragile brilliance of ambition—and the quiet devastation of its collapse—as perfectly as Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in Tales of the Jazz Age and often regarded as a thematic precursor to The Great Gatsby, this luminous tale distills the essence of desire, wealth, and illusion into one of Fitzgerald's most enduring works.

At its center is Dexter Green, a young man driven by ambition and captivated by a vision of success that seems always just...