F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exquisite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.

Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- NRACP / George P. Elliott -- In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher -- Other foot / Ray Bradbury -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Mother's tale / James Agee -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Old army game / George Garrett -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner -- Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter -- Long day's dying / William Eastlake -- Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates.

The Attack on the Fort Sir Tatton Sykes Captain Isaiah Sellers Lady Blessington RMS. Titanic The Man Who Would Be King The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Lottery The Girls in Their Sunnner Dresses The Furnished Room De Mortuis The Necklace [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( A Piece of Neus I See You Never Haircut Crossing into Poland War The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Tennessee's Partner [Araby]( The Drunkard The Lament Tickets, Please Eventide Old Red Cruel and Barbarous Treatment A Domestic Dilennna Christ in Flanders Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book Love The Killers The Fly I Want to Knou Why The Adulterous Woman [A Rose for Emily]( A Good Man Is Hard to Find In the Penal Colony Through the Quinquina Glass The Bitch A Father-to-Be The Fight The Far and the Near The Sensible Thing A Christmas Memory Realpolitik The Sailor Boy's Tale Amy Foster The Killing of the Dragon Dermuche Disorder and Early Sorro•-w No Place for You, My Love 1 Write Goodbye, My Brother What Happened Noon Wine Blackberry Winter

The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss.

Contains: A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The man who missed the bus / Stella Benson -- The happy autumn fields / Elizabeth Bowen -- They weren't going to die / Kay Boyle -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The new villa / Anton Chekhov -- Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerlad -- The captive / Caroline Gordon -- The second death / Graham Greene -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- The bench of desolation / Henry James -- [Clay]( / James Joyce -- An old page / Franz Kafka -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / William Somerset Maugham -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Mariá Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter -- The valiant woman / James F. Powers -- The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins / Irwin Shaw -- Fight number twenty-five / Jesse Stuart -- The fancy woman / Peter Taylor -- The singers / Ivan Turgenev -- First love / Eudora Welty -- The second tree from the corner / E.B. White.

A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Purloined Letter]( Edgar Allan Poe -- The last of the Valreii / Henry James -- [The story of an hour]( ; [Desiree's baby]( / Kate Chopin -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The new villa / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The mission of Jane / Edith Wharton -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather -- Tonio Kroger / Thomas Mann -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- The knot hole / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- [Araby]( / James Joyce -- The shades of spring / D.H. Lawrence -- The pearls / Isak Dinesen -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- My first goose / Isaac Babel -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- World of little doves / H.L. Davis -- Delta autumn / William Faulkner -- A way you'll never be / Ernest Hemingway -- Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen. Green thoughts / John Collier -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Esther Kreindel the Second / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow -- Bad characters / Jean Stafford -- A story of love, etc. / Daniel Curley -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Homage for Isaac Babel ; Our friend Judith / Doris Lessing -- Exodus ; The rockpile / James Baldwin -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- Reena / Paule Marshall -- Report / Donald Barthelme -- Accomplished desires / Joyce Carol Oates.

The last uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Good morning, Miss Dove / Frances Gray Patton -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- Mary Smith / Booth Tarkington -- Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens -- The suicide club / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Eighteen oak ties / Tim Pridgen -- Ultima Thule / John Galsworthy -- Anty Bligh / John Masefield -- Sam Weller makes his bow / Charles Dickens -- The Croxley master / Arthur Conan Doyle -- François Villon meets a woman / John Erskine -- Father and the cook / Clarence Day, Jr. -- The grave grass quivers / Mackinlay Kantor -- The king waits / Clemence Dane -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- [The murder of Roger Ackroyd ]( Agatha Christie.

Contains: The Beautiful and Damned [The Great Gatsby]( This Side of Paradise Tender Is the Night

Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- "A model of Christian charity" / John Winthrop -- "In memory of my dear grandchild Anne Bradstreet" / Anne Bradstreet -- "The minister's black veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Voices of a revolution -- "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" / Jonathan Edwards -- "The way to wealth" / Benjamin Franklin -- "Considerations on keeping Negroes" / John Woolman -- "The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Common sense / Thomas Paine -- Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- personal letters / John Adams & Abigail Adams -- The search for a national identity -- "On the emigration to America and peopling the western country" / Philip Freneau -- "Federalist no.2" / John Jay -- "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano" / Olaudah Equiano -- The history of the Lewis and Clark expedition / Meriwether Lewis & William Clark -- A tour on the prairies / Washington Irving -- "Tecumseh's plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws" / Tecumseh -- The shackles of power: three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos. A confident nation -- "The young American" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Resistance to civil government" / Henry David Thoreau -- Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller -- "Great are the myths" / Walt Whitman -- "Annexation" / John L. O'Sullivan -- Personal memoirs / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- Slavery and the abolition movement -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Uncle Tom's cabin / Harrriet Beecher Stowe -- Sociology for the South / George Fitzhugh -- "Appeal to the Christian women of the South" / Angelina Grimke Weld -- "The hunters of men" / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Civil war and reconstruction -- "The portent" / Herman Melville -- The red badge of courage: an episode of the American Civil War / Stephen Crane -- "Hospital sketches" / Louisa May Alcott -- "O Captain! My Captain!" / Walt Whitman -- "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington -- The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois. Industrializing America -- The closing of the frontier -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather -- "Chiquita" / Bret Harte -- The life and adventure of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick / Nat Love -- "Kansas I" / A Mexican Folk Ballad -- "The passing of the buffalo" / Hamlin Garland -- Black Elk speaks / Black Elk -- Artists render industrialization and urbanization -- "What the engines said" / Bret Harte -- "Life in the iron mills" / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- "Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane -- Yekl: a tale of the New York ghetto / Abraham Cahan -- "Chicago" / Carl Sandburg -- Social critics and reformers -- "We are all bound up together" / Francis E. Watkins Harper -- Eighty years and more: reminiscences 1815-1897 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "A church mouse" / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Huckleberry Finn / Samuel L. Clemens -- The shame of the cities / Lincoln Steffens -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair. Americans abroad and World War I -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- "The white man's burden" / Rudyard Kipling -- "The real 'white man's burden'" / Ernest Crosby -- "Hallelujahs" / Jose de Diego -- One of ours / Willa Cather -- "next to of course god america i" / E. E. Cummings -- Democracy and adversity -- The jazz age -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Song of perfect propriety" / Dorothy Parker -- The flivver king / Upton Sinclair -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- "The weary blues" / Langston Hughes -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- The big money / John Dos Passos -- Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets -- "Women on the breadlines" / Meridel LeSueur -- The grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck -- "Colonial Park" / Ralph Ellison -- "Proud day" / Genevieve Taggard. World War II -- "Freedom" / E. B. White -- Battle cry / Leon Uris -- Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- "Apostrophe to the land" / Countee Cullen -- The face of war / Martha Gellhorn -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Hiroshima / John Hershey -- The challenges of power -- Prosperity and anxiety -- An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- The man in the gray flannel suit / Sloan Wilson -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- The cruicible / Arthur Miller -- The right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- Rights and revolutions -- "Letter from a Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Message to the grass roots" / Malcolm X -- "Why I want a wife" / Judy Brady -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog -- "Blowin' in the wind" / Bob Dylan -- The Vietnam years -- One very hot day / David Halberstam -- Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien -- "Life at war" / Denise Levertov -- American pastoral / Philip Roth -- "Letters from my father" / Robert Olen Butler.

Contains: - [The Great Gatsby]( - The Last Tycoon