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The Basil and Josephine stories / by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited with an introd. by Jackson R. Bryer and John Kuehl.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0684133989
ISBN: 9780684133980
ISBN: 0684185679
ISBN: 9780684185675
ISBN: 0684146932
ISBN: 9780684146935
ISBN: 9780684826189
Physical Description: xxix, 335 pages ; 20 cm

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Basil. That kind of party ; Scandal detectives ; A night at the fair ; Freshest boy ; He thinks he's wonderful ; Captured shadow ; Perfect life ; Forging ahead ; Basil and Cleopatra -- Josephine. First blood ; A nice quiet place ; A woman with a past ; A snobbish story ; ; Emotional bankruptcy.