F. Scott Fitzgerald - Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Complete Works of

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

(1896-1940)

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Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald

First published in the United Kingdom in 2013 by Delphi Classics.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota the birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgeralds birthplace 481 Laurel Avenue, Saint Paul

Fitzgerald, aged three

Fitzgeralds mother an avid reader of novels. Mary Molly McQuillan Fitzgerald was the daughter of an Irish immigrant, who had made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business

Fitzgerald with his father, a stern moralist. Edward Fitzgerald was of Irish and English ancestry and had moved to Saint Paul from Maryland after the American Civil War.

Fitzgerald, 1912

Fitzgeralds first novel was published in 1920, taking its title from the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti . The novel examines the society issues facing American youths in the aftermath of World War I. The protagonist Amory Blaine is a Princeton student who dabbles in literature. The novel sold out in three days, earning Fitzgerald overnight fame. On March 30, four days after publication and one day after selling out the first printing, Scott wired for Zelda, a young lady with whom he was infatuated and wanted to impress, to come to New York and get married that weekend. Scarcely a week after publication, Zelda and Scott married in New York on April 3, 1920.

The novel went through 12 printings in 1920 and 1921, for a total of 49,075 copies. Many reviewers were enthusiastic with the authors debut novel. Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune wrote "it bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius. It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood." H. L. Mencken declared that This Side of Paradise was the "best American novel that I have seen of late."

The narrative blends different styles of writing: fictional narrative, free verse and narrative drama, interspersed with letters and poems from Amory. This blend of styles was the result of Fitzgeralds cobbling The Romantic Egotist , his earlier attempt at a novel, together with assorted short stories and poems that he had composed yet never published. The occasional switch from third person to second person gives the narrative a semi-autobiographical presence, also suggested by a passage written in the stream-of-consciousness style.

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