Why read The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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A collection of 43 short stories by the author of "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night". The text contains tales such as "May Day" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".

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Why read it?

2 authors picked The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

E.M. Schorb

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I am intrigued by these stories and have read a number of them a number of times.

There is universal acclaim for Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, and these stories display those same qualities that created Gatsby.

One of my favorites is “The Rich Boy,” and one that I would recommend to every reader. Such clarity of mind, soul, and taste expressed in this story in particular makes great, gripping writing. I am even impressed by the stories written expressly for the magazines (every story can’t be a masterpiece).

From E.M.'s list on collections that exemplify “le style c’est l’homme” (the style is the man).

Michael Stutz

Author

Everything F. Scott Fitzgerald ever touched with his pen glimmered and was gold. Just think of Tender Is the Night—the title comes from Keats, and Keats is the living lyre, and it's a fine, long book that haunts you. But the place where I first entered his world is the fat blue collected stories that came out in 1989, edited by my late friend Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli.

This was the book that first made me see that gorgeous writing was everything, that it was the mode and method and the way. Every one of the stories in this…

From Michael's list on big, lyrical, and packed with poetic prose.