F. Scott Fitzgerald (Pocket Essential series)

Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Part One: The Early Years: 1896 - 1919......Page 17
Childhood and School......Page 19
Princeton: 1913–1917......Page 27
The War......Page 35
Zelda......Page 37
New York – Disappointment and Failure......Page 41
Part Two: 1920 - 1940......Page 45
Early Success......Page 47
More Success and a Dramatic Failure......Page 55
Long Island, Lardner & Liquor......Page 59
Europe Again – and Gatsby......Page 63
America and Europe - Again and Again......Page 71
Emotional Bankruptcy and a Breakdown......Page 77
America – Hospitals and Hollywood......Page 83
The Depression - Drinking and Declining......Page 87
Debts and Despair......Page 93
The Crack-Up......Page 97
Hollywood (Again)......Page 101
Sheilah Graham – A New Romance......Page 103
Drinking, Sobriety and The Last Tycoon......Page 109
Aftermath......Page 115
Part Three: Fitzgerald’s Works......Page 117
The Collected Short Stories, London, Penguin, 2000.......Page 129
The Price Was High, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.......Page 130
The Pat Hobby Stories, New York, Scribners, 1962.......Page 131
Bryer, Jackson R. & Barks, Cathy W. (Editors), Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, New York, St Martins Press, 2002.......Page 133
Kuell, John & Bryer, Jackson R. (Editors), Dear Scott ~ Dear Max - the Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, New York, Scribners, 1971.......Page 134
This Side of Paradise, New York, Scribners, 1920.......Page 119
The Beautiful and Damned, New York, Scribners, 1922.......Page 120
The Great Gatsby, New York Scribners, 1925.......Page 121
Tender Is the Night, New York, Scribners, 1934.......Page 123
The Last Tycoon, New York, Scribners, 1941.......Page 124
Trimalchio,West III, James L W (Editor), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.......Page 126
Fitzgerald on Screen......Page 135
Biographies......Page 145
Critical Works......Page 149
Novels Written About Fitzgerald......Page 151
Fitzgerald on the Web......Page 153
Books By and About Zelda Fitzgerald......Page 155
Ernest Hemingway......Page 157
Maxwell Perkins......Page 158