Basil and Josephine
Published on 1. January 2018
321 pages
978-0-7145-4732-9 (ISBN)
Description
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry - based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra King and his wife Zelda. As one struggles to gain the acceptance of his peers and becomes consumed by ambition, the other finds herself obsessed by teenage crushes and has to confront the pitfalls of popularity. Written for the Saturday Evening Post while the author was working on Tender Is the Night, these stories form a realistic and entertaining portrait of two young adults in the 1910s, fascinating both for the autobiographical insights they provide and the timeless satire that Fitzgerald's fiction has become synonymous with.
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Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.
Content
- Intro
- Basil and Josephine
- The Basil Stories
- That Kind of Party
- The Scandal Detectives
- A Night at the Fair
- The Freshest Boy
- He Thinks He's Wonderful
- The Captured Shadow
- The Perfect Life
- Forging Ahead
- Basil and Cleopatra
- The Josephine Stories
- First Blood
- A Nice Quiet Place
- A Woman with a Past
- A Snobbish Story
- Emotional Bankruptcy
- Note on the Texts
- Notes
- Extra Material
