The Short Stories

Fitzgerald wrote well over a hundred short stories, many for popular magazines, and this entry covers collections gathering them. They range from sparkling tales of young love and social ambition to quiet, sombre studies of disappointment, drink and lost promise.

Settings include American colleges, wealthy suburbs, European hotels and Hollywood. Some stories, such as Babylon Revisited, are counted among the finest in the language. Together they show his gift for compression and his sense of how fragile glamour and happiness can be.