F. Scott Fitzgerald Books

F. Scott Fitzgerald capture the atmosphere of the decadence and liveful jazz-age. The book is very well written and you almost float through the book.

There is a reason why this is required reading in advanced literature classes throughout the country. This is without a doubt one of the best tales ever told. It should be used as an example to any aspiring writer of what great writing can be. The thing that makes it so great is Fitzgerald's ability to formulate characters, both large and small, and his ability to have them interact in a manner that is at once both imaginative and realistic. This makes the story, which in and of itself is not more amazing than other books, more amazing because you are compelled to believe the plausibility of a story that is incredible. Even if you are not a literature student you will find this book an enjoyable read that is intellectually stimulating, yet easy reading for those reading to relax. Many have copied this story directly and indirectly because of the lesson it teaches (that in the story about life and that about creating a story) and many will continue to do so in the future.

While F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: UNDER THE INFLUENCE does not ignore Fitzgerald's life, the authors use it to in part explain why Fitzgerald had such a good grasp of the competing economic theories of his time. What makes this book significant, however, is that the authors' primary purpose is to establish that Fitzgerald's works reveal that he "possessed a boldness of intellectual grasp that extends into the economic realm."

Just how much of Thorsten Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class is reflected in The Great Gatsby as well as in other works, for example, is thoroughly detailed. And the significance of Gatsby "look[ing] with vacant eyes through a copy of [Henry] Clay's Economics while at Nick's house is illuminating.

Perhaps it required such authors as one who has written a book on Wall Street capitalism as well as a novel and an economics professor who teaches interdisciplinary studies to give literature lovers further insight into Fitzgerald/his works and to convince those who see him as "merely" an intuitive wordsmith that "Fitzgerald deserves more intellectual credit than he received at the time or since."

This book is totallly worth picking up. F Scott's short stories are some of the best ever written.

Six years in the making, this book provides a new approach to understanding a writer. This narrative examines Fitzgerald's all-consuming quest for attention and approval-and love. His constant search for perfect love, the perfect life, and women.
He need and demanded the admiration of women and courted them assiduously, and indiscriminatley.

This book probes the influence of women on Fitzgerald's world-from doting mother to Sheilah Graham and how he captures all these delights and despairs in his work.

Some of the best recounting of the contentious relationship between Hemingway and Fitzgerald out there. Chapter 2 -- Fitzgerald's Blue Pencil -- is priceless.

Stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. Stories include: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip van winkle; the spectre bridegroom; Young Goodman Brown; Rappaccini's daughter; the fall of the house of usher; the gold bug; the pit and the pendulum; the cask of amontillado; captain kidd"s money; Benito cereno; the lightning-rod man; the diamond lens; the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county; the L1,000,000 bank note; the man that corrupted Hadley burg; the luck of roaring camp; the outcasts of poker flat; Tennessee's partner; an occurrence at owl creek bridge; a horseman in the sky; the damned thing; the turn of the screw; the jolly corner; the courting of sister wisby; the Hilton's holiday; the love-philtre of ikey schoenstein; the gift of the magi; Tobin's palm; springtime a la carte; the furnished room; "fox-in-the-morning"; the Rembrandt; the moving finger; the recovery; Maggie - a girl of the streets; the open boat; the upturned face; the clemency of the court; Lou, the prophet; a night at greenway court; the wite silence; the son of the wolf; the men of forty-mile; in a far country; Babylon revisited; a rose for Emily; big two hearted river; flight.

I don't suppose there are many who haven't heard of this book. A true masterpiece in every sense of the word. A tragic love story & tragic life story. Written in 1922 & timeless

There is a reason why this is required reading in advanced literature classes throughout the country. This is without a doubt one of the best tales ever told. It should be used as an example to any aspiring writer of what great writing can be. The thing that makes it so great is Fitzgerald's ability to formulate characters, both large and small, and his ability to have them interact in a manner that is at once both imaginative and realistic. This makes the story, which in and of itself is not more amazing than other books, more amazing because you are compelled to believe the plausibility of a story that is incredible. Even if you are not a literature student you will find this book an enjoyable read that is intellectually stimulating, yet easy reading for those reading to relax. Many have copied this story directly and indirectly because of the lesson it teaches (that in the story about life and that about creating a story) and many will continue to do so in the future.

There is a reason why this is required reading in advanced literature classes throughout the country. This is without a doubt one of the best tales ever told. It should be used as an example to any aspiring writer of what great writing can be. The thing that makes it so great is Fitzgerald's ability to formulate characters, both large and small, and his ability to have them interact in a manner that is at once both imaginative and realistic. This makes the story, which in and of itself is not more amazing than other books, more amazing because you are compelled to believe the plausibility of a story that is incredible. Even if you are not a literature student you will find this book an enjoyable read that is intellectually stimulating, yet easy reading for those reading to relax. Many have copied this story directly and indirectly because of the lesson it teaches (that in the story about life and that about creating a story) and many will continue to do so in the future.