Fitzgerald's short stories have themes that not only relate to the problems and culture of the Jazz Age, but also to the promises and despair encountered by the youth, as well as the aging. Love and relationships between two mismatched or unlikely characters are common, such as people who are unlikely to develop a spark of romantic interest between each other.
The plots are usually set in the culture of the upper middle class and the elite, with characters either from this social group or aspiring to become part of it. Being inspired by the events that occurred during The Great Depression and the stock market crash, the stories also involve characters who lose wealth, but who are still trying to maintain their opulent lifestyle.
However, Fitzgerald's stories will remain relevant no matter which era listeners are born into, as finding true love and happiness, despite the situation, will always be a common part of the human experience.
Included in this book:
Novels:
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
Short Stories:
The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage
Reade, Substitute Right Half
A Debt of Honor
The Room with the Green Blinds
A Luckless Santa Claus
Pain and the Scientist
The Trail of the Duke
Shadow Laurels
The Ordeal
Little Minnie McCloskey: A Story for Girls
The Old Frontiersman: A Story of the Frontier
The Diary of a Sophomore
The Prince of Pests: A Story of the War
Cedric the Stoker
The Spire and the Gargoyle
Tarquin of Cheapside
Babes in the Woods
Sentiment - And the Use of Rouge
The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw
Porcelain and Pink
Head and Shoulders
Benediction
Dalyrimple Goes Wrong
Myra Meets His Family
Mister Icky
The Camel's Back
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Ice Palace
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