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PublisherScribner

ISBN-100684826186

ISBN-139780684826189

eBay Product ID (ePID)815831

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Book TitleBasil and Josephine Stories

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicClassics, General, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-043466

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Table Of ContentCONTENTS Introduction Textual Note and Acknowledgments I. BASIL That Kind of Party The Scandal Detectives A Night at the Fair The Freshest Boy He Thinks He's Wonderful The Captured Shadow The Perfect Life Forging Ahead Basil and Cleopatra II. JOSEPHINE First Blood A Nice Quiet Place A Woman with a Past A Snobbish Story Emotional Bankruptcy A Brief Life of E Scott Fitzgerald

SynopsisFourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volumeIn 1928, while struggling with his novelTender Is the Night,Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in theSaturday Evening Postabout his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, withTender Is the Nightstill unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in thePost)that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here,The Basil and Josephine Storiesbrings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works., Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fictionalized version of his younger self. Drawing on his childhood and adolescent experiences, Fitzgerald wrote nine tales that were published in the Saturday Evening Post about his life from the time he was an eleven-year-old boy living in Buffalo, New York, until he entered Princeton University in 1913. Then from 1930 to 1931, with Tender Is the Night still unfinished, Fitzgerald wrote five more stories (also published in the Post) that centered around Josephine Perry, Basil's female counterpart. Although Fitzgerald intended to combine the fourteen Basil Lee and Josephine Perry stories into a single work, he never succeeded in doing so in his lifetime. Here, The Basil and Josephine Stories brings together in one volume the complete set, resulting in one of Fitzgerald's most charming and evocative works.

LC Classification NumberPS3511.I9B37 1997