All the Sad Young Men

All the Sad Young MenPublished 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 The Rich Boy and Winter Dreams. Like Gatsby, these two tales feature wealthy protagonists the old money Anson Hunter and the self made man Dexter Green who struggle to come to terms with lost love. The short story Absolution, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a

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.