Babylon Revisited (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)
'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember'. F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age'...
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'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember'. F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. This book includes: "Babylon Revisited", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", and "The Lost Decade".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141195964 (0141195967)
Publish date: February 15th 2011
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 76
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Modern Classics,
Short Stories
Having loved Fitzgerald's writing when I was young I wondered if I would still feel the same way. Yes, his writing still blows me away.
It's a shame that short fiction (and short nonfiction) aren't afforded more honor. Fitzgerald is stronger when he has less scope to flail around. His characterization and humor are more in evidence than his moody melancholy which suffuses the novels.
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