My Lost City & Other Autobiographical Essays (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. My Lost City, The Crack-Up, Pasting It Together, Handle with Care, Afternoon of an Author, Early Success & My GenerationBy Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Length3h 9m
About this audiobook
My Lost City & Other Autobiographical Essays gathers Fitzgerald's most revealing nonfiction meditations on fame, youth, money, New York, and artistic disillusion. Written in the polished, elegiac prose that also animates The Great Gatsby, these essays transform personal reminiscence into cultural diagnosis. "My Lost City" especially stands as a lyrical reckoning with Manhattan as dream, stage, and ruin, placing Fitzgerald's private losses within the broader collapse of the Jazz Age's glittering promises. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, became both chronicler and emblem of the generation shaped by postwar prosperity, social mobility, and moral uncertainty. His early success, marriage to Zelda Sayre, immersion in celebrity culture, financial instability, and later professional decline all inform these essays. They reveal a writer acutely aware of his complicity in the very myths he anatomized: glamour, ambition, extravagance, and the painful cost of self-invention. This collection is highly recommended for readers of Fitzgerald's fiction who wish to encounter the reflective intelligence behind its surfaces. Scholars, students, and general readers alike will find here an indispensable companion to his novels and stories: intimate, lucid, self-critical, and historically resonant.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 19, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Lost City & Other Autobiographical Essays (Annotated)
9Handle with Care.
2Introduction
10Afternoon of an Author.
3Author Biography
11Early Success.
4Historical Context
12My Generation.
5Synopsis (Selection)
13Analysis
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6My Lost City.
14Reflection
7The Crack-Up.
15Memorable Quotes
8Pasting It Together.
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