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The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories
The smilers --
Myra meets his family --
Two for a cent --
Dice, brassknuckles & guitar --
Diamond Dick and the first law of woman --
The third casket --
The pusher-in-the-face --
One of my oldest friends --
THe unspeakable egg --
John Jackson's arcady --
Not in the guidebook --
Presumption --
The adolescent marriage --
Your way and mine --
The love boat --
The bowl --
At your age --
Indecision --
Flight and pursuit --
On your own --
Between three and four --
A change of class --
Six of one --
A freeze-out --
Diagnosis --
The rubber check --
On schedule --
More than just a house --
I got shoes --
The family bus --
In the darkest hour --
No flowers --
New types --
Her last case --
Lo, the poor peacock! --
The intimate strangers --
Zone of accident --
Fate in her hands --
Image on the heart --
Too cute for words --
Inside the house --
Three acts of music --
"Trouble" --
An author's mother --
The end of hate --
In the holidays --
The guest in room nineteen --
Discard [Director's special] --
On an ocean wave --
The woman from twenty-one.
Myra meets his family --
Two for a cent --
Dice, brassknuckles & guitar --
Diamond Dick and the first law of woman --
The third casket --
The pusher-in-the-face --
One of my oldest friends --
THe unspeakable egg --
John Jackson's arcady --
Not in the guidebook --
Presumption --
The adolescent marriage --
Your way and mine --
The love boat --
The bowl --
At your age --
Indecision --
Flight and pursuit --
On your own --
Between three and four --
A change of class --
Six of one --
A freeze-out --
Diagnosis --
The rubber check --
On schedule --
More than just a house --
I got shoes --
The family bus --
In the darkest hour --
No flowers --
New types --
Her last case --
Lo, the poor peacock! --
The intimate strangers --
Zone of accident --
Fate in her hands --
Image on the heart --
Too cute for words --
Inside the house --
Three acts of music --
"Trouble" --
An author's mother --
The end of hate --
In the holidays --
The guest in room nineteen --
Discard [Director's special] --
On an ocean wave --
The woman from twenty-one.
784 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1,897 books23.9k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
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March 14, 2019
There are recurrent themes in Scott Fitzgerald's stories in this book: money, beauty, love and also loneliness. This is an inherently american collection of short stories, framed in its own historical background, sure, but some of the longings are universal. Meanwhile, the other stories show how much old F.S. Fitzgerald needed money and was willing to write for it.
June 18, 2007
Collection of incredible short stories from a writer who, in my opinion, is simply the greatest. Nobody writes prose like poetry like Fitzgerald.
September 30, 2015
LOVE HIS SHORT STORIES.CAPTURED AND CREATED HIS TIMES
September 15, 2020
A really quite varied selection of stories from an incredible author. As the stories come from all parts of his life, there is a wide range of quality here - from some which are almost nonsensical or end abruptly to works which could easily have been expanded into a novel, and were a delight to read. Because of the inclusion of some of the worse ones, it's only a 4* from me, but there definitely are some gems in here. I read this as I'd read most other collections and the 5 novels, and I think it will be the last time I read any Fitzgerald for a while, as the sheer volume of stories in here did start to drag on me after a while. This coupled with the subject material almost always being somewhat similar - love, money, and melancholy of some sort - meant I found myself not reading as much. I'm sure I'll come back to read more eventually, as I do love most of his writing, but for every Great Gatsby there is a Tarquin of Cheapside, and both are represented in this anthology.
September 27, 2022
La apariencia del mundo de los millonarios, de las escuelas de la Ivy Leage, de las estrellas de cine cansadas de serlo, de hombres pusilánimes que descubren un día el poder que tienen en los puños, jovencitas engañadas por sus pretendientes (porque las consideran buscafortunas) que en venganza también los engañan a ellos, enamoramientos que se dieron en la guerra (la primera guerra mundial), son algunos de los temas que con dominio del arte de narrar desarrolla Fitzgerald a lo largo de este libro.
January 12, 2024
Fitzgerald was definitely a writer of his time: his stories center around outdated themes and stereotypes surrounding women, money, luxury, and love. But you don’t read Fitzgerald for the moral content; you read him for the poetry of his prose. His lyrical writing creates worlds with bold, colorful middles and soft edges. It makes you feel like you’re floating above his stories, looking down on a nostalgic world of dreams and glory.
January 7, 2022
I absolutely love Fitzgerald short stories. They are beautifully written portrayal of an elite, but with so much sensibility that it is hard not to feel for the characters. Always a pleasure.
March 4, 2017
When first published in 1979 these 50 short stories had not been collected in any other book. That still holds true today for most of them. This book belongs on the shelves of any FSF afficionado.
April 7, 2015
La elegancia en la escritura de Fitzgerald se hace notar haciendo de estos relatos exquisitos y dinámicos, fáciles de leer y ambientados en el Estados Unidos de La Gran Depresion que le da un toque especial, con arqueotipos personajes típicos de la época este libro te hace viajar en el tiempo.
Sin duda Francis Scott Fitzgerald es un gran escritor.
Recomiendo este libro para disfrute de su escritura y en caso de que se necesite algo fresco que leer.
Sin duda Francis Scott Fitzgerald es un gran escritor.
Recomiendo este libro para disfrute de su escritura y en caso de que se necesite algo fresco que leer.
January 6, 2017
There's no such thing as a bad Fitzgerald story -- just some that aren't as great as others. This collection is not necessarily the junior varsity of Fitzgerald stories. Some of them are among his most interesting works. It is certainly worth delving into this book if you enjoy one of the 20th century's greatest writers and want to explore beyond the most well-known stories.
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