All the Sad Young Men F. Scott Fitzgerald – All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.This short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novels themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams, deal with wealthy protagonists the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green as they come to terms with lost love, while Absolution, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby.Also containing The Baby Party; Rags Martin-Jones and the Prnce of Wles; The Adjuster; Hot and Cold Blood; The Sensible Thing and Gretchens Forty Winks all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited.All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled ‘Lost Generation, ‘ Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
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