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Modern Classics Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald Hardcover - 2010

by F. Scott Fitzgerald


About this book

Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. 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.  (Publisher Summary -Random House)


From the publisher

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and 'The Lost Decade', written in Fitzgerald's last years.

First Edition Identification


Charles Scribner’s Sons published the First US Edition, First Printing in New York, 1920. 


W. Collins Sons & Co. published the First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1922. The Edition is characterized by the navy blue cloth boards, publisher’s logo stamped on the spine/front cover.  The First Collin’s printing varies from the US edition by around 435 readings. 


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  • Title Modern Classics Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2010
  • ISBN 9780141194103 / 0141194103
  • Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.55 x 1.65 in (20.57 x 14.10 x 4.19 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

About the author

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.
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