
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 FitzgeraldLength52h 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
33The Spire and the Gargoyle (1917)
2Introduction
34Tarquin of Cheapside (1917)
3Author Biography
35Babes in the Woods (1917)
4Historical Context
36Sentiment—And the Use of Rouge (1917)
5Synopsis (Selection)
37The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw (1917)
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6This Side of Paradise (1920)
38Porcelain and Pink (1920)
7A DAMP SYMBOLIC INTERLUDE (pt. 1)
39Head and Shoulders (1920)
8A DAMP SYMBOLIC INTERLUDE (pt. 2)
40Benediction (1920)
9Book Two—The Education of a Personage (pt. 1)
41Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (1920)
10Book Two—The Education of a Personage (pt. 2)
42Myra Meets His Family (1920)
11The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
43Mister Icky (1920)
12TWO YOUNG WOMEN
44The Camel’s Back (1920)
13Book Two
45Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)
14NIETZSCHEAN INCIDENT
46The Ice Palace (1920)
15RETROSPECT
47The Offshore Pirate (1920)
16Book Three (pt. 1)
48The Cut-Glass Bowl (1920)
17Book Three (pt. 2)
49The Four Fists (1920)
18RICHARD CARAMEL
50The Smilers (1920)
19The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909)
51May Day (1920)
20Reade, Substitute Right Half (1910)
52The Jelly-Bean (1920)
21A Debt of Honor (1910)
53The Lees of Happiness (1920)
22The Room with the Green Blinds (1911)
54Jemina (1921)
23A Luckless Santa Claus (1912)
55O Russet Witch! (1921)
24Pain and the Scientist (1913)
56Tarquin of Cheapside (1921)
25The Trail of the Duke (1913)
57The Popular Girl (1922)
26Shadow Laurels (1915)
58Two for a Cent (1922)
27The Ordeal (1915)
59The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)
28Little Minnie McCloskey: A story for girls (1916)
60The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922)
29The old frontiersman: A story of the frontier (1916)
61Winter Dreams (1922)
30The diary of a sophomore (1917)
62Analysis
31The prince of pests: A story of the war (1917)
63Reflection
32Cedric the stoker (1917)
64Memorable Quotes