The Collected Stories of 1935 - 1940: 25 previously uncollected stories! (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Late 1930s Stories of Hollywood, Ambition, and Jazz Age AftermathBy Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Length12h 36m
About this audiobook
The Collected Stories of 1935–1940 gathers twenty-five previously uncollected pieces from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's final creative period, when his fiction turned from Jazz Age glitter toward austerity, disillusion, and hard-won moral perception. Written for magazines yet marked by unmistakable artistry, these stories explore debt, work, marriage, youth's fading glamour, and the compromises of ambition. Their style is leaner than Fitzgerald's 1920s prose, but still luminous, poised between popular storytelling and modernist psychological nuance. Fitzgerald's own circumstances deeply inform the collection. By the mid-1930s he was struggling with alcoholism, financial pressure, Zelda Fitzgerald's illness, and the decline of his public reputation. His move to Hollywood as a screenwriter sharpened his awareness of performance, illusion, and artistic failure. These late stories often read as oblique self-portraits: comic, wounded, observant, and intensely conscious of talent under strain. This volume is recommended to readers who know Fitzgerald only through The Great Gatsby or Tender Is the Night, as well as to scholars of American modernism. It reveals a less celebrated but essential Fitzgerald: disciplined, commercially embattled, and still capable of piercing emotional truth.
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
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length12 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Stories of 1935 - 1940: 25 previously uncollected stories! (Annotated)
18Afternoon of an Author.
2Introduction
19“I Didn’t Get Over”.
3Author Biography
20“Send Me In, Coach”.
4Historical Context
21An Alcoholic Case.
5Synopsis (Selection)
22“Trouble”.
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6Stories 1935–40.
23The Honor of the Goon.
7Shaggy’s Morning.
24The Long Way Out.
8The Intimate Strangers.
25The Guest in Room Nineteen.
9The Passionate Eskimo.
26In the Holidays.
10Zone of Accident.
27Financing Finnegan.
11Fate in Her Hands.
28Design in Plaster.
12Too Cute for Words.
29The Lost Decade.
13Image on the Heart.
30Strange Sanctuary.
14Three Acts of Music.
31The End of Hate.
15The Ants at Princeton.
32Analysis
16Inside the House.
33Reflection
17An Author’s Mother.
34Memorable Quotes
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