All the Sad Young Men

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 ?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 background piece to Gatsby. Also containing ?The Baby Party, ? ?Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr?nce of W?les?, ?The Adjuster, ? ?Hot and Cold Blood, ? ?The Sensible Thing? and ?Gretchen's Forty Winks? ? all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited ? All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.