Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this collection of nine short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes two of his most famous - the beautifully elegiac ÔThe Rich BoyÕ and ÔWinter Dreams.Õ Like Gatsby, these two tales feature wealthy protagonists Ð the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green Ð who struggle to come to terms with lost love.
The short story ÔAbsolutionÕ, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby. Also containing ÔThe Baby Party,Õ ÔRags Martin-Jones and the PrÐnce of WÐlesÕ, ÔThe Adjuster,Õ ÔHot and Cold Blood,Õ ÔThe Sensible ThingÕ and ÔGretchenÕs Forty WinksÕ Ð all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited Ð All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.