Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure …
The volume contains nine stories:
‘The Rich Boy’
‘Winter Dreams’
‘The Baby Party’
‘Absolution’
‘Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les’
‘The Adjuster’
‘Hot and Cold Blood’
‘The Sensible Thing”
‘Gretchen’s Forty Winks’