May Day

Fitzgerald's first story collection, eight tales including The Ice Palace, Bernice Bobs Her Hair and The Offshore Pirate. Young people testing what they can get away with in a country that has just changed its rules.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eleven stories spanning satire, fantasy and social comedy, among them May Day, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The collection that gave the decade its name.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nine stories written just after The Great Gatsby, including Winter Dreams, The Rich Boy and Absolution. Fitzgerald at his sharpest on ambition, class and what wanting something too much does to a person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dexter Green builds a fortune to deserve a woman he first met as a caddie, then learns what happens when the dream outlives the wanting. Often read as the first sketch of The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Button is born an old man and grows younger every year, permanently out of step with his family and his century. Fitzgerald's best known fantasy story, later adapted for film.

F. Scott Fitzgerald