The Diamond As Big As the Ritz is F. Scott Fitzgerald's dazzling fantasy-satire about wealth so extreme that it becomes grotesque and dangerous. A young visitor discovers a hidden world of unimaginable luxury, secrecy, and moral corruption, where beauty and horror exist almost side by side. Fitzgerald turns the dream of riches into a nightmare of possession.
The Diamond As Big As the Ritz is one of Fitzgerald's most extravagant short works, but its fantasy has a hard satirical edge. It asks what happens when money escapes ordinary limits and begins to rewrite conscience itself. Readers interested in American satire, Jazz Age excess, dark fantasy, and stories about the mythology of wealth will find a brilliant, unsettling tale.
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