‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is a 1920 short story by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), first published in the Saturday Evening Post before being reprinted in his 1920 collection of stories, Flappers and Philosophers. A scathing satire on the viciousness of the American privileged lasses, ‘Bernice Bobs Her […]
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A Summary and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’
Of all of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s shorter works, ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is perhaps the most celebrated and widely studied. Published in 1922, ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ appears to foreshadow a number of prominent elements of Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, published three years […]
10 of the Best F. Scott Fitzgerald Novels and Stories Everyone Should Read
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most important writers in American literature. He has been credited with writing the ‘great American novel’ and his stories and novels have come to epitomise the Jazz Age: the age of cocktails, parties, and excess in 1920s America. But there’s much more […]
A Summary and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Lost Decade’
‘The Lost Decade’ is one of the shortest works by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), the American author best-known for The Great Gatsby. Published in Esquire magazine in December 1939, just one year before Fitzgerald died, ‘The Lost Decade’ is one of his most powerful short stories to deal with the […]
Five Fascinating Facts about The Great Gatsby
Fun facts about The Great Gatsby and its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1. The Great Gatsby sold no more than 25,000 copies in Fitzgerald’s lifetime. It has now sold over 25 million copies. Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate […]