The Complete Short Stories and Essays, Volume 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2004
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780743254748
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

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.
Volume two contains works from 1928 to 1940, the year Fitzgerald died, as well as posthumously published works. Each volume also includes photos, critical excerpts, and essays from noted Fitzgerald scholars. This is a treasure for any Fitzgerald fan.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Colophon
• The Fitzgerald Ebook Collection
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Short Trip Home
• The Bowl
• Magnetism
• The Scandal Detectives
• A Night at the Fair
• The Freshest Boy
• He Thinks He’s Wonderful
• Outside the Cabinet-Maker’s
• The Captured Shadow
• The Perfect Life
• The Popular Girl
• Ten Years in the Advertising Business
• The Last of the Belles
• Forging Ahead
• Basil and Cleopatra
• The Rough Crossing
• At Your Age
• The Swimmers
• Two Wrongs
• First Blood
• A Nice Quiet Place
• The Bridal Party
• A Woman with a Past
• One Trip Abroad
• A Snobbish Story
• The Hotel Child
• Babylon Revisited
• A New Leaf
• Emotional Bankruptcy
• Echoes of the Jazz Age
• A Freeze-Out
• Six of One—
• Family in the Wind
• What a Handsome Pair!
• Crazy Sunday
• One Interne
• One Hundred False Starts
• More Than Just a House
• The Fiend
• The Night at Chancellorsville
• The Crack-Up
• Pasting It Together
• Handle with Care
• Author’s House
• Afternoon of an Author
• “I Didn’t Get Over”
• An Alcoholic Case
• The Long Way Out
• Financing Finnegan
• Design in Plaster
• The Lost Decade
• Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish
• A Man in the Way
• “Boil Some Water—Lots of It”
• Teamed with Genius
• Pat Hobby and Orson Welles
• Pat Hobby’s Secret
• The Homes of the Stars
• Pat Hobby Does His Bit
• Pat Hobby, Putative Father
• Pat Hobby’s Preview
• No Harm Trying
• On the Trail of Pat Hobby
• A Patriotic Short
• Fun in an Artist’s Studio
• Two Old-Timers
• Mightier than the Sword
• Pat Hobby’s College Days
• Three Hours Between Planes
• News of Paris—Fifteen Years Ago
• Last Kiss
• That Kind of Party
• Dearly Beloved
• FSF: Life and Career (by James L. W. West III)
• Photo Insert (B&W) with Captions
• A Table of Contents (Annotated Table of Contents by FSF providing facts and background info on each of the stories)
• Foreword (by Charles Scribner III, from The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection)
• Foreword (by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith, from Bits of Paradise)
• Preface (by Matthew J. Bruccoli, from Bits of Paradise)
• Preface (by Matthew J. Bruccoli, from The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection)
• Introduction (by Arthur Mizener, from The Fitzgerald Reader)
• Introduction (by Arthur Mizener, from Afternoon of an Author)
• Introduction (by Jackson R. Bryer and John Kuehl, from The Basil and Josephine Stories)
• Textual Note and Acknowledgments (by Jackson R. Bryer and John Kuehl, from The Basil and Josephine Stories)
• Introduction (by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan, from Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories)
• Introduction (by Malcolm Cowley, from The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection)
• Introduction (by Arnold Gingrich, from The Pat Hobby Stories)
• Appendix (1940 revision of “A Patriotic Short”)
• Critical Excerpts
• Suggestions for Further Reading