F. Scott Fitzgerald, All the Sad Young Men

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1926

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All the Sad Young Men

, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on 26 February 1926. Fitzgerald's previous book,

The Great Gatsby

, had appeared on 10 April 1925 and

Sad

should have followed more quickly, in accordance with Scribners' usual policy of issuing a short story collection hard on the heels of a novel by the same author. Fitzgerald's first two short story collections

, Flappers and Philosophers

(1920) and

Tales of the Jazz Age

(1922) had followed this pattern; but the publication of

Sad

was delayed until “The Rich Boy”, the opening story in the volume, had appeared in magazine form.

Sad

consisted of nine stories, all previously published in magazines and all except two of them earning Fitzgerald a four-figure fee. Three…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "All the Sad Young Men". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6762, accessed 27 November 2024.]

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