Diamond As Big As the Ritz & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853262129 ISBN 13: 9781853262128

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests and uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade and Babylon Revisited

About this title

About the Author

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

From Library Journal

Much of Scott's work is going public domain, and reprints are coming fast and furious. Besides "Diamond," this contains other gems, e.g., "The Ice Palace" and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Penguin has also released an $8.95 edition of The Beautiful and the Damned (ISBN 0-14-118087-0).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853262129
• ISBN 13: 9781853262128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Hutchinson Professor Stuart, Carabine Dr Keith