The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (45 Short Stories and Novels) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Jazz Age Stories of Wealth, Youth, Romance, and American DisillusionmentBy F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length52h 32m
About this audiobook
The Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the fiction through which the Jazz Age found its most brilliant and unsettling voice: glittering novels of aspiration and disillusionment alongside short stories attentive to youth, romance, wealth, performance, and loss. Fitzgerald's prose is lyrical yet exacting, fusing social comedy with elegiac critique. In works such as The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and his magazine fiction, he situates private longing within the broader modernist context of postwar instability, consumer culture, and the collapse of inherited moral certainties. Fitzgerald's own life closely shadows the imaginative terrain of these writings. Born in 1896, educated at Princeton, and propelled early into literary celebrity, he experienced both the glamour and precarity he so memorably dramatized. His marriage to Zelda Sayre, his ambivalent fascination with money and status, and his struggles with alcoholism and artistic self-doubt all sharpened his understanding of desire's costs and the American dream's fragility. This collection is indispensable for readers seeking the full range of Fitzgerald's achievement. It rewards admirers of modernist fiction, students of American culture, and anyone drawn to prose in which beauty and ruin are inseparable.
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
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length52 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6This Side of Paradise (1920)
7A DAMP SYMBOLIC INTERLUDE (pt. 1)
8A DAMP SYMBOLIC INTERLUDE (pt. 2)
9Book Two—The Education of a Personage (pt. 1)
10Book Two—The Education of a Personage (pt. 2)
11The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
12TWO YOUNG WOMEN
13Book Two
14NIETZSCHEAN INCIDENT
15RETROSPECT
16Book Three (pt. 1)
17Book Three (pt. 2)
18RICHARD CARAMEL
19The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909)
20Reade, Substitute Right Half (1910)
21A Debt of Honor (1910)
22The Room with the Green Blinds (1911)
23A Luckless Santa Claus (1912)
24Pain and the Scientist (1913)
25The Trail of the Duke (1913)
26Shadow Laurels (1915)
27The Ordeal (1915)
28Little Minnie McCloskey: A story for girls (1916)
29The old frontiersman: A story of the frontier (1916)
30The diary of a sophomore (1917)
31The prince of pests: A story of the war (1917)
32Cedric the stoker (1917)
33The Spire and the Gargoyle (1917)
34Tarquin of Cheapside (1917)
35Babes in the Woods (1917)
36Sentiment—And the Use of Rouge (1917)
37The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw (1917)
38Porcelain and Pink (1920)
39Head and Shoulders (1920)
40Benediction (1920)
41Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)
42Myra Meets His Family (1920)
43Mister Icky (1920)
44The Camel’s Back (1920)
45Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)
46The Ice Palace (1920)
47The Offshore Pirate (1920)
48The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920)
49The Four Fists (1920)
50The Smilers (1920)
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