Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise marked his entrance into short fictional stories with this collection of eight works. The collection includes such famous stories as The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, and Head and Shoulders and it was in its time an instant classic.<br/><br/>Fitzgerald’s short stories in this volume focus on characters he has come to be known for, the Lost Generation, the witty and sophisticated women, headstrong and beautiful with their dangling cigarettes and bob hairstyles. We meet feuding debutantes and spoiled heiresses and the men who pursue them. Flappers and Philosophers is an entertaining and revealing peek into the America of the 1920s.