Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott FitzgeraldPublished soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The

she is made to confront aspects of living that she has

and speak in his voice

and his tricks will never impress the monkeys

and remember long after the final page

)Clever fairy camouflage (Reed fairies living in wetlands usually wear striped clothes to hide among the tall reeds

His deeply religious and disappointed wife

' Colin Thubron

entertaining study of a nation in crisis' Financial Times

Passionate and forensic

least of all pretty

And what we must do to change it

From Britain she travels to Spain