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Flappers and Philosophers - (Vintage Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)

Flappers and Philosophers - (Vintage Classics) by  F Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>All the glamour and cynicism of the dawning of the Jazz Age are on display in Fitzgerald's debut story collection. "Flappers and Philosophers" contains some of his most famous early stories, including Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Ice Palace, and The Offshore Pirate.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Flappers and Philosophers</i> was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald's sensational debut, <i>This Side of Paradise</i>, and anticipated themes in <i>The Great Gatsby</i>. This iconic collection marks the writer's entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Ice Palace," "Head and Shoulders," and "The Offshore Pirate." In these pages we meet Fitzgerald's trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down by a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whose weapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors. An instant classic in its time, a confirmed part of the canon today, this collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Fitzgerald is a master of the American short story."<br>--<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <p/>"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings."<br>--Ernest Hemingway<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of <b>The Great Gatsby</b>, was born in 1896 and died in 1940.

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