F Scott Fitzgerald Books in Order

Four plays written during Fitzgerald's youth in St. Paul show his early experiments with drama. The collection includes The Girl from Lazy J, The Captured Shadow, Coward and Assorted Spirits, accompanied by an introduction and textual notes.

These school and college stories follow young people confronting ambition, war, religion and academic failure. Collected from Fitzgerald's early writings, they reveal developing themes and experiments with narrative perspective that would later inform his novels and mature short fiction.

Fitzgerald's student writings range across fiction, journalism, humor and musical theater. This collection includes his high-school and Princeton magazine contributions and lyrics for three Triangle Club productions, with illustrations and notes explaining their literary and cultural references.

On her way to meet a lover, Lois visits the brother she has not seen for years at his religious college. Their conversation and a chapel service unsettle her assumptions about faith, family and the choices before her.

Shy Bernice struggles to attract attention while visiting her socially accomplished cousin Marjorie. Coaching transforms her popularity, but a boast about cutting her hair becomes a challenge that exposes rivalry beneath the cousins' apparent friendship.

Eight stories explore young love, social competition, ambition and the pressures of class. From Bernice's attempt to become popular to a Southern woman's encounter with the North, the collection presents characters whose desires collide with expectations and circumstance.

Young intellectual Horace Tarbox lives absorbed in study until performer Marcia Meadows enters his room and disrupts his routine. Their attraction brings two contrasting lives together, while marriage and changing ambitions test assumptions about intellect, work and independence.

In New York after the First World War, a troubled young artist crosses paths with wealthy celebrants and returning soldiers. Their intersecting lives unfold amid a dance, drinking and street violence, exposing divisions of money, politics and opportunity.

Two brief comic plays combine absurd family behavior with romantic misunderstanding. Mr. Icky's household clashes with social aspirations, while Porcelain and Pink places a young woman in a bathtub during a conversation with a man who mistakes her identity.

After years of casual flirtation, Myra chooses wealthy Knowleton Whitney as a prospective husband. Invited to meet his family, she encounters an elaborate deception designed to make her break their engagement, turning courtship into a contest of assumptions and appearances.

Rejected by Betty after proposing marriage, Percy Parkhurst drinks and attends a costume party disguised as a camel. The disguise leads to a series of misunderstandings, with a mock wedding threatening to complicate his already uncertain romantic situation.

Samuel Meredith's progress from boarding school into business is punctuated by four blows to the face. Each confrontation challenges his arrogance or judgment, turning physical humiliation into a lesson about other people and the conduct of his own life.

Southern belle Sally Carrol becomes engaged to a Northerner and visits his snowy hometown. The unfamiliar climate and social attitudes unsettle her, while a trip through an ice palace intensifies the conflict between romantic hopes and attachment to home.

Jim Powell drifts through life in a Southern town until an encounter with the attractive Nancy Lamar draws him into a society party. Her recklessness and their brief connection awaken ambitions that collide with the distance between their social worlds.

Actress Roxanne leaves the stage to marry writer Jeffrey Curtain, but their happiness is interrupted by his debilitating illness. Her devotion and friendship with a man enduring his own marital loss explore loyalty, suffering and lives reshaped by disappointment.

A strong-willed young woman resists her uncle's plans for her marriage while aboard his yacht. When supposed pirates seize the vessel, their charming leader draws her into a romantic adventure that challenges her expectations of wealth, rebellion and love.

This selection of forty-three stories spans Fitzgerald's short fiction, from early tales of youth and ambition to later accounts of disappointment. Pieces including May Day, The Rich Boy and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz show his varied subjects and forms.

Amory Blaine grows from a privileged, self-absorbed boy into a Princeton student and aspiring writer. Romance, war and financial setbacks challenge his confidence, forcing him to reconsider the ambitions, social ideals and sense of identity that have shaped his life.

Two contrasting short works pair a parody of Kentucky mountain feuds with a tale set in Elizabethan London. Jemina's encounter at a family whiskey still and a fugitive's search for shelter combine exaggerated adventure, satire and literary allusion.

Stories and short plays range from social satire to fantasy, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Characters pursue romance, pleasure and wealth while confronting the absurdity and disappointment behind their dreams.

Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria live in New York expecting an inheritance to support their fashionable pleasures. Drinking, idleness and disappointment strain their marriage as the future they have assumed will be theirs becomes increasingly uncertain.

Benjamin Button is born with the appearance and habits of an elderly man, then grows younger as the years pass. His reversed aging confounds his family and society, complicating education, marriage and the ordinary expectations that organize a life.

John Unger visits a school friend's remote family estate and discovers wealth founded on an enormous hidden diamond. The luxurious household's determination to protect its secret turns hospitality into danger, testing his fascination with riches against his wish to survive.

Former caddie Dexter Green builds a successful business while remaining captivated by wealthy Judy Jones. Their uneven romance entwines his longing for love with his ambition for status, leaving him vulnerable to ideals neither money nor effort can secure.

Roger is trying to establish an advertising agency and needs uninterrupted time to work. His wife Gretchen resents the boredom this imposes, turning his professional ambition and her desire for pleasure into a domestic struggle over competing needs.

Ten early stories examine romance, money, social aspiration and the disillusionment behind youthful confidence. Including Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Winter Dreams and Absolution, the selection traces subjects and character types that Fitzgerald would also develop in his novels.

Fitzgerald recounts a road trip with Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a troublesome automobile. Mechanical difficulties and unpredictable encounters turn their intended visit into an account of marriage, travel and the frustrations of crossing America by car.

Seventeen-year-old Val, the son of a Russian prince and an American mother, dreams of romance on the Riviera. An unexpected meeting aboard a yacht in Cannes brings those hopes close to fulfillment, but the stranger carries troubles he does not understand.

This collection brings together stories including Absolution, The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams. Young people and privileged adults confront desire, status and disappointed expectations, offering interconnected views of American life and the emotional costs of the Jazz Age.

Nick Carraway becomes drawn into the world of his wealthy Long Island neighbor Jay Gatsby, who hopes to reclaim a past romance with Daisy Buchanan. Lavish parties conceal obsession and unease as money, desire and loyalty bring their social circle into conflict.

Privileged Anson Hunter grows accustomed to advantages that separate him from other people. His relationship with Paula and subsequent romantic choices reveal the tension between affection and entitlement, examining how inherited wealth shapes intimacy and his understanding of himself.

Film star George Hannaford believes his marriage is secure despite the attention his charm attracts. Seeing his wife absorbed in another man and confronting a blackmail demand unsettle that confidence, exposing the precarious connections beneath Hollywood's public image.

Fourteen linked stories follow Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry through childhood and adolescence. Drawing on Fitzgerald's youthful experiences, they explore popularity, romance, ambition and the humiliations of growing up within social worlds governed by money and appearance.

Ten stories portray ambition, love and loss across Southern towns, New York and Paris. In the title story, Charlie Wales returns to the city where his former extravagance cost him dearly, hoping to regain custody of his daughter.

Stories rooted in St. Paul portray youthful romance, social insecurity and the wish to rise into wealthier circles. An introduction and individual headnotes connect Fitzgerald's fictional settings and characters with the city and experiences that supplied much of his material.

Psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole preside over a fashionable circle on the French Riviera. Actress Rosemary Hoyt's arrival complicates their marriage, exposing tensions between professional care, dependence, desire and the fragile life they have created together.

Eighteen stories bring together youthful social struggles, troubled relationships and adults confronting regret. Tales featuring Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry sit alongside Babylon Revisited, linking early ambitions with the consequences of choices made during the Jazz Age.

Fourteen stories emphasize the fantastic and mysterious side of Fitzgerald's fiction. Including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Outside the Cabinet-maker's, the collection explores passion, intrigue and unsettling situations that depart from the ordinary expectations of everyday life.

Nora and Nell travel by train toward Washington during the Civil War when Confederate forces attack. Their experience among frightened, injured passengers reveals the violence behind a journey that official accounts may treat very differently from those who endured it.

Personal essays and correspondence trace Fitzgerald's movement from literary success into exhaustion and despair, and his efforts to recover. Edited by Edmund Wilson, the collection also includes exchanges with fellow writers that illuminate his work, friendships and changing self-understanding.

This collection gathers Fitzgerald's poems, humorous verses, and song lyrics across his writing career, including work for Princeton musicals. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, it reveals his early poetic ambitions and continuing interest in rhyme.

Once successful in silent films, Hollywood screenwriter Pat Hobby now survives on scraps of studio work and schemes for money or credit. These linked stories follow his increasingly awkward efforts to remain useful in a changing movie industry.

In Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel, producer Monroe Stahr becomes involved with a mysterious woman who recalls his lost wife. Their affair unfolds amid studio politics and the competing pressures of creative authority, business interests, and personal longing.

These stories range from Basil Duke Lee's unhappy school days and Josephine Perry's romantic adventures to marriages, Hollywood ambitions, and memories of lost years. The selection includes The Bridal Party, Crazy Sunday, and the title story.

Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his editor Maxwell Perkins reveal their friendship and working relationship. The collected correspondence offers a view of the literary world they inhabited through the exchanges of an author and his editor.

Twenty-one previously uncollected stories by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald bring together fiction from both writers. The volume offers a shared view of their storytelling through pieces that had remained outside their earlier published collections.

Fitzgerald's notebooks preserve observations, overheard conversations, character ideas, and passages salvaged from stories for possible reuse. Matthew J. Bruccoli's edition gathers this working material alongside additional notes, offering a view of how experience became raw material for fiction.

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, this volume collects fifty previously uncollected stories from Fitzgerald's commercial writing career. Magazine tales and an unpublished piece reveal the range of subjects he explored while balancing literary ambitions with earning a living.

Arranged chronologically, Fitzgerald's letters trace his personal relationships and painstaking development as a writer. Exchanges with Maxwell Perkins, Ernest Hemingway, Zelda, and his daughter Scottie reveal artistic decisions, family concerns, professional struggles, and emotional changes over time.

This edition combines Flappers and Philosophers with Tales of the Jazz Age. Stories and short plays explore courtship, wealth, social ambition, and fantastic reversals, including a man aging backward and young people testing the conventions surrounding them.

Letters between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follow their courtship, marriage, creative ambitions, and years of separation through illness and work. Their correspondence records affection and conflict while revealing the private pressures behind their celebrated public life together.

Fourteen stories and six essays trace Fitzgerald's writing across his career, with selections on personal experience, Princeton, and life abroad. Arthur Mizener's introduction and notes place the fiction and autobiographical pieces within the author's changing circumstances.

Edited by Robert Pearce, this compact collection brings together sayings by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It presents the novelist through selected brief statements, giving readers a concise way to encounter his language outside the continuous narratives of his fiction.

Letters, notebook entries, reviews, and articles document Fitzgerald's thinking about writing as both craft and profession. The selections examine his efforts to earn a living, develop literary art, and understand the responsibilities and discipline of authorship.

This early complete version of The Great Gatsby follows Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway's narration before Fitzgerald's extensive revisions. Differences in characterization, narrative voice, and the disclosure of Gatsby's past illuminate the novel's development from manuscript to publication.

Fitzgerald's first twenty-six stories and short dramatic pieces bring together early experiments with romance, class, fantasy, and social manners. The collection includes Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Popular Girl, Winter Dreams, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

This story collection's title piece follows society girl Yanci Bowman after her father's death leaves her impoverished. Hiding her circumstances from wealthy Scott Kimberly, she invents an increasingly fragile social life that threatens their developing relationship.

Personal essays and articles trace Fitzgerald's changing understanding of himself, from the confidence of early success to reflections on craft and family loss. Edited by James West, the collection builds an autobiographical portrait from the author's own writing.

Letters spanning more than thirty years trace Fitzgerald's artistic development and complicated private life. Correspondence with family, friends, and business associates records concerns about his writing, emotional insecurity, and the relationships that shaped his experiences.

These selections from The Crack-Up and other writings portray drinking within Fitzgerald's Jazz Age world. Social excess, witty observations, and the consequences of alcohol connect the pleasures of parties with the exhaustion and regret that can follow.

Eight short stories originally associated with the Saturday Evening Post present young women inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald. Their fashionable, flirtatious lives reflect the changing freedoms, romantic expectations, and social performances of women during the early Jazz Age.

Fourteen-year-old Fitzgerald's St. Paul diary records friendships, crushes, rivalries, games, and secret societies among his peers. Presented in full with Dave Page's commentary, it reveals the young observer's fascination with social standing and romantic attention.

Four stories explore Fitzgerald's use of mystery and fantasy alongside his better-known social fiction. The collection includes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which a man born with the appearance of old age grows younger over time.

A young officer recalls his fascination with Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun in the title story. Other tales written between 1927 and 1931 explore romance, disappointment and lost possibilities during the years Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night.

Fifteen lesser-known stories from the 1920s explore ambition, social performance, and lost youth. In the title piece, Harvard graduate Bill Frothington's encounter with seventeen-year-old Mae on a steamer leaves him nostalgic after choosing a more socially suitable life.

Edited by Anne Margaret Daniel, these unpublished and previously uncollected stories, scenarios, and fragments span Fitzgerald's career. Pieces rejected or left unprinted reveal experiments with controversial subjects and departures from the romantic stories magazine editors expected of him.

Basil Duke Lee's first year at preparatory school leaves him isolated and discouraged. His dreamy confidence irritates classmates and teachers, while rivalry with a privileged older boy forces him to confront the gap between his ambitions and social acceptance.

Southern newcomer Jim Powell meets Amanthis and promises to introduce her to fashionable society. His unconventional academy teaches dice, guitar, and self-defense to young socialites, exposing class divisions and racial tensions beneath the pleasures of the Jazz Age.

Helen Van Beck breaks her understanding with musical cousin Teddy to marry a man who shares her sporting interests. Their apparently perfect compatibility raises questions about competition, appearances, and what actually allows a marriage to endure.

Three stories set in fictional Tarleton, Georgia, follow young women challenging Southern expectations and seeking wider possibilities. The Ice Palace, The Jelly-Bean, and The Last of the Belles explore freedom, romantic choices, and the persistent pull of home.

Sixteen stories trace Fitzgerald’s developing fiction through aging, youthful ambition and idealized dreams. Benjamin Button’s reverse journey through life appears alongside Winter Dreams, Babes in the Woods and other pieces revealing themes later developed in his novels.

This collection brings together letters exchanged between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his literary agent Harold Ober from 1919 to 1940. Their correspondence follows a writer and agent working together across more than two decades of Fitzgerald’s career.

This selection of Fitzgerald’s early fiction explores romance, class divisions and the excesses of the Jazz Age. Stories including Winter Dreams, May Day and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz reveal the ambitions and disappointments beneath glittering appearances.

A man born old grows younger while his family struggles to understand him in the title story. Six accompanying tales explore ill-fated gifts, violence and public revelry, tracing unusual experiences alongside the social tensions of Fitzgerald’s early fiction.

Six stories drawn from Fitzgerald’s first two collections follow characters caught between romantic expectations and social realities. Extraordinary wealth, Southern loyalties, fashionable transformations and public upheaval expose the uncertainty beneath the promise of the Jazz Age.