Track | Title | Duration |
01 | 01 - The Offshore Pirate | 1:11:05 |
02 | 02 - The Ice Palace | 1:00:03 |
03 | 03 - Head and Shoulders | 53:16 |
04 | 04 - The Cut-Glass Bowl | 48:48 |
05 | 05 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair | 59:36 |
06 | 06 - Benediction | 37:13 |
07 | 07 - Dalyrimple Goes Wrong | 39:39 |
08 | 08 - The Four Fists | 38:33 |
Notes
Total Running Time: 6 hours 48 minutes
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Proof Listener: Elizabeth Klett
Artwork
Cover: Illustration for cover of Tales of the Jazz Age, painted by John Held, Jr. (1922).
DVD Inset and Insert: Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine (1921).
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Throughout his career F. Scott Fitzgerald excelled at the short form, the short story. Indeed when his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, failed to garner the audience, sales or interest, his earlier novels had achieved with their almost effortless ascent up the best seller list, Fitzgerald was thrown back on his talents as a short story writer and the significant market for such writing in the weekly magazines that were a staple of life in America in the 1920’s. As Fitzgerald said, he labored over his novels, but the short stories came whole and complete and only required a kind of automatic transcription with one or, at the most, two revisions. The Saturday Evening Post paid mightily for Fitzgerald’s output, and this income kept him and Zelda solvent on their high profile march through the Roaring 20’s. Flappers and Philosophers is Fitzgerald’s first collection of short stories, written during the years before and concurrent with his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and the stories deal with many of the same themes of that bright era, complete with its darker shadows born of that generation’s overt, even rebellious pursuit of pleasure, not without the bad seeds of greed and the hyper-consciousness of one’s social status in a stratified post-war America. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936363 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923643 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Year | 1920 |
Recording | |
Read by | Mb |
Length | 6 hours 48 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
Flappers and Philosophers
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Product Code: DB-1058
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