Présentation de l'éditeur
6 of the Roaring Twenties chronicler's most scintillating short stories, chosen from Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, May Day, The Jelly-Bean, and The Offshore Pirate.
Biographie de l'auteur
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel,
This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with
The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922,
The Great Gatsby in 1925 and
Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on
The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
